On top of that, it is inefficient for handling inventory.

WSJ: When Simplicity Is the Solution

It is also closing inefficient industrial facilities, tightened efficiency standards for buildings and appliances, and is expanding forest coverage.

FORBES: Green Sprouts in the Far East

Infraero, the sluggish state-owned monopoly that operates them, is so inefficient that for years it has failed to spend even half its budget for airport upgrades.

ECONOMIST: Airports and stadiums are behind schedule

This Sarkozy trade, as it is sometimes known in the markets, was an indirect (if inefficient) means for the ECB to support sovereigns.

ECONOMIST: Charlemagne

Immobile workers become stuck in jobs for which they are ill-suited, which is inefficient: it raises prices, reduces incomes and makes some jobs uneconomic.

ECONOMIST: Labour mobility

It means the same debtors are being chased by multiple arms of government which is not good for them and highly inefficient for us.

BBC: Whitehall push to recover ?20bn in unpaid debt

Even though Nigeria is such a big oil producer, for instance, its few refineries are so old and inefficient that it now has to import the bulk of its petrol and kerosene, a huge extra cost to business.

ECONOMIST: Nigeria