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Inefficiently in sentence

16 examples of Inefficiently in a sentence

When we're complacent with that as our bar, when we tell ourselves that giving aid is better than no aid at all, we tend to invest inefficiently, in our own ideas that strike us as innovative, on writing reports, on plane tickets and SUVs.
Resources are allocated inefficiently across the economy, with a corrupt institutional and legal structure that impedes private investment.
Instead of helping richer people inefficiently far into the future, we can do immense good right now.
Absent alienable individual ownership of productive resources, it is asserted, there will be insufficient means and incentives to pursue development initiatives, and shared resources (the “commons”) will be over-exploited and used inefficiently.
In one sense, we should be grateful for our hard-working M&A technicians, well-paid as they are: it is important that businesses with lousy managements or that operate inefficiently be under pressure from those who may do better, and can raise the money to attempt to do so.
If trading today is not helping to move capital to its highest and best use, reallocating inefficiently employed financial talent could yield big benefits.
In the US, tertiary education accounts for over 2.5% of GDP (roughly $500 billion), and yet much of this is spent quite inefficiently.
But continuing to use energy inefficiently will not mitigate the painful effects of the global economic crisis.
If government spends more – even if inefficiently – output goes up.
Such practices, he argued, would lead to inefficiently high levels of industrial mobility, because corporations would pursue profits wherever they could, regardless of the impact on individual communities.
Reforms such as privatizing state-owned enterprises, opening up closed professions, abolishing restrictive business practices, and reducing the size of the public sector have been undertaken very slowly and inefficiently, and they will not significantly alter growth prospects.
The enterprises owned by the Indian government in manufacturing and other sectors operate inefficiently and often produce losses that absorb national saving.
But if production entails environmental damage for which companies do not pay, incentives are distorted; companies may turn a profit, but they function inefficiently in economic terms.
Peasants toil inefficiently on tiny plots of land, in a form of disguised unemployment similar to that seen in rural China.
Likewise, it is negligent to focus on inefficiently cutting CO2 now because of costs in the distant future that in reality will not be avoided.
The growth of global competition implies that even when large scale production is most efficient, companies in small nations are no longer restricted to the inefficiently small scale of their limited domestic market.