No matter the cost: economies were buried in debt as real interest rates soared, millions were thrown out of work from firms strangled by tight money, and price controls kept farmers poor to lavish cheap food on city dwellers.
Manufacturers expect continued cost reductions though economies of scale and supply chain cost reductions.
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Industrial-scale units house thousands of animals, cutting the cost of production through economies of scale.
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Global legislation in the form of the Basel Convention has been enacted to prevent this exploitation of weaker economies via cost externalization.
Other economies and cost cutting changes must be implemented and their implementation made a condition before raising taxes to pay for old age health care.
This argument has some merit, mainly because price pressure clearly comes from the ability to ship steel from low-cost developing countries to more mature economies.
Short-term margins might see some further declines but Daimler expects the economies of scale and cost-cutting inititatives to improve its margins to around 8% from 2013.
From the other side, French exporters are being assailed by lower-cost competitors the emerging economies, but increasingly by countries in Southern Europe such as Spain that are cutting production costs.
So far the main drivers of European inflation have been the same as most major developed economies: the surging cost of oil and basic food products such as dairy and wheat.
Economies of scale are the cost savings associated with a larger production size of certain product, the larger the production scale, the lower the per unit product cost.
Economies of scale are the cost savings associated with a larger production scale (size) of certain product, the larger the production scale, the lower the per unit product cost.
Public cloud platforms achieve a lower cost basis by leveraging commodity infrastructure and economies of scale that come through multitenancy, automation, and standardization, he writes in a new post and report.
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In the past stripped down versions of products designed for developed economies were positioned as a low cost and cheap alternative in the emerging markets.
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The first stage in the cycle is that of factor-driven economies which focus on low-cost basic factor conditions, such as low-skilled labour, natural resources and geographic location.
The fees are particularly essential for credit unions: far smaller than banks, they cannot take advantage of economies of scale to reduce the cost of servicing their customers.
Present low-carbon energy deployment strategies assume that greater economies of scale will drive big cost reductions, but the historical record suggest that this is less the case than normally assumed.
That creates economies of scale and so lowers the cost of each barrel they produce.
This is expected to be driven mainly by cost savings in Indonesia where higher grade ore and economies of scale will bring down costs by nearly 50%.
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Both during and after this restructuring in U.S. higher education, universities, governments, and companies in emerging economies will be able to tap low cost, high-quality online education to leapfrog the slow and painstaking process of developing educational capacity to meet critical national needs.
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Up to now, those scale economies of fuel efficiency and of capital cost in these large generating units have been so great as to be able to absorb the additional cost of transmission and distribution and still be lower than any competing form of electrical generation (except of course where plentiful hydroelectric generation could be built).
That means CCDs can't take advantage of the same economies of scale that have continually reduced the cost of memory chips and microprocessors.
Prime Minister Monti succeeded in stabilizing the public finances, but at the cost of a deeper recession than in all other eurozone economies except Greece and Spain.
Most of this material has value to it, if aggregated in the proper way so that economies of scale can kick in and provide cost effective re-processing potential.
Given the high level of manufacturing sophistication in China, there are very few products that cannot be made more cost effectively in the country than in most other manufacturing economies.
According to the study, the U.S. is No. 1 in large advanced economies for simple regulations and a general low cost of doing business, contrary to what many politicians say about what troubles the U.S. economy.
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We expect emerging markets such as Brazil, India, China and other Asian countries to drive the cloud-based business as it is a more cost effective way to adopt ERP and CRM and these economies tend to be more price sensitive.
Brilliantly managed by Chairman and Chief Executive Lorenzo Zambrano, 54, its success stems from several interrelated factors: acquisitions, economies of scale, pricing power, ruthless cost-cutting -- all of which have been made possible by large and intelligent investment in communications technology.
He believes that a combination of economies of scale and specialisation can radically reduce the cost of heart surgery.
Goods in Somalia and the region are becoming more expensive owing to the increased cost of doing business and the price distortions generated by artificial economies.
The cost of borrowing for some of the eurozone's largest economies, including Italy and Spain, has shot up in recent months as lenders fear governments will not be able to pay back money they have already borrowed.
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