SOEs tend to be inefficient and to be disruptive of natural market activity.
Fragmentation may often be inefficient the EU does not yet have a single system of patents but it is not usually fatal.
The market may be inefficient, but it remains close to invincible.
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Bureaucracies that are dominated by political appointees and that pay civil servants meagre salaries are more likely to be inefficient and corrupt, the Bank contends.
More subtly, it may also be inefficient in the sense that it benefits from subsidies that make it even more sprawly than it would otherwise have been.
The report said plans to widen treatment to drug users whose habit was not directly related to their offending was "likely to be inefficient and could be harmful".
But big income gaps can also be inefficient, because they can bar talented poor people from access to education or feed resentment that results in growth-destroying populist policies.
LEAs were also perceived to be inefficient, profligate and bureaucratic.
This is especially true for trusts investing in small companies, the area where the market is most likely to be inefficient and, therefore, where professional skills should be particularly worthwhile.
Because computer-driven machines cut most of the standardized parts and joints, "we're free to be inefficient in assembly and finishing work, where the craft is most obviously expressed, " says Moser, who spends most of his time designing at the workbench.
The biggest losers will be inefficient local producers, such as one in Samara, in southern Russia, where the decrepit town brewery, featuring fermentation tanks with flaking linings, nasty smells and beer brewed to purists' horror from sugar and rice, has fought off all outside interest.
Repeatedly searching and retrieving large data sets from thousands of computers would be extremely inefficient.
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Even if NIF's lasers achieve burn, they will be extraordinarily inefficient, producing only 1% of the energy needed to fire the lasers.
"The Japanese market tends to be more inefficient than the American and European markets, " says Jean-Marie Eveillard, who manages several First Eagle funds.
For example, while the short-term advantage of outsourcing manufacturing processes allows for a satisfactory quarterly balance sheet, this strategy lacks long-term vision and can be an inefficient means of overseas operation.
Wall Street houses argue that this would be hugely inefficient, and that, anyway, their analysts were bullish not in order to keep the bankers happy, but because they believed, albeit wrongly, in the dotcoms they were touting.
"The proliferation of organizations with overlapping oversight and assistance responsibilities is a source of potential confusion among agency personnel and may be an inefficient use of scarce technical resources, " said Jack Brock, director of governmentwide and defense information systems at the General Accounting Office, speaking before Congress in February.
The second is that tax breaks can be a very inefficient way to deliver government subsidies.
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In many instances regulations and government policy proved to be costly and inefficient ways to address the identified problems.
The way Ray Kroc did it with hamburgers: by systematizing a business that used to be fragmented, inefficient and undercapitalized.
But there need not always be arbitrary, inefficient, and wasteful government regulation.
Dividends would be an extremely inefficient, tax wise, method of rewarding shareholders.
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In a separate report last month, the GAO took the Pentagon to task for what appears to be a wildly inefficient procurement process.
It's no secret that mutual funds can be horribly tax inefficient.
But the fix has yet to be publicly demonstrated, and even if it does work, it could be costly, inefficient and still result in service blackouts.
Storing solar-made electricity in batteries can be expensive and inefficient.
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Since Cuba owes billions of dollars to the former Soviet Union, to the Club of Paris, and to others, and has refused in the past to acknowledge or pay these debts, new loans will be wasted by Castro's inefficient and wasteful system, and will be uncollectible.
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The big impact will be through cuts in inefficient use of energy, and possibly higher export revenues.
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The person putting in the most hours may be seen as an inefficient worker and less productive than their colleagues.
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Liu Yongxing reckons the casualties will be the small and inefficient feed producers that control about 80% of the domestic market.
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