Committee chairman Margaret Hodge said inefficient funding systems and poor cost control had driven up the cost of the programme.
The problems of Asia's financial firms are due not to too much competition, but to over-protection and cronyism, which have encouraged shoddy lending and poor cost-control.
Athletic departments have little patience for poor cost efficiency, which helps explain why nine of the ten teams on our list have brought in new head football coaches within the last three years.
For example during the party's welfare review, should a One Nation Labour Party defend the principle of universal benefits - or would its concern for the poor cost, for example, better off pensioners their winter fuel allowance?
Although camps are a low-cost option, the poor outcomes reduced cost-effectiveness.
Grass has been poor and the weather's been poor and the cost of feed has already gone up.
He retired a wealthy man in 1940, but 10 years later poor investments had cost him his fortune, forcing him to make a comeback.
In 2009, one year after Sampson's departure, there came a final insult: Poor academic performance cost the Hoosiers two basketball scholarships for a season.
Championing poor MFI borrowers was a cost-free way of burnishing its credentials with the rural poor.
"There is a major cost to poor quality, " admits Ted Briscoe, Iomega's Zip drive chieftain.
Novartis sold 62 million courses of its malaria drug, Coartem, at cost to poor African countries.
"Time and again, we have seen poor design, poor implementation and weak cost control, " he said.
For members of the working poor, the sheer cost of survival may be very close to their total incomes.
Thanks to endorsement schemes, high cost, poor performing variable annuities have come to dominate the 457 and 403b marketplace.
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It has begun, for the first time, to calculate the real cost to poor countries of tariffs, anti-dumping duties and non-tariff barriers in rich markets.
Novartis (nyse: NVS - news - people ) sold 62 million courses of its malaria drug, Coartem, at cost to poor African countries.
New Zealander Gatland said there were plenty of positives his team could take from their performance in the tournament, but lamented the poor kicking which ultimately cost Wales the bronze medal.
The 3-2 defeat to Manchester United, which saw Fernando Torres controversially sent off by Clattenburg, was the start of a poor run which ultimately cost Di Matteo his job with the European champions.
Major Wall Street money managers and affiliates of the money managers acting as independent fiduciaries have parceled out pension portfolios to high cost, poor performing firms with whom they have longstanding, undisclosed business arrangements.
An expert witness testifying on behalf of the plaintiffs - the US Department of Justice and the US states affected by the spill - countered that the disaster was a direct result of poor management and heavy cost-cutting at BP.
But Forest, with on-loan Chelsea full-back Ryan Bertrand the only new addition to their side, carry over the poor away record that cost them promotion last season - they have now picked up only two points on the road since a victory at West Brom on 8 January.
The state should intervene to save the children and to save the cost associated with poor test scores.
Experts blame that record on the age of the aircraft, weak government controls, poor pilot training and a cost-cutting mentality.
Last week, the state's Legislative Analyst's Office came out with a damning indictment of the project's unrealistic cost estimates and poor management.
The cost to the poor of these so-called Refund Anticipation Loans (RALs) has been estimated at 6 percent of the entire EITC program.
Maze had a near-perfect first run, but a poor start to the second cost her valuable time and she finished 0.08 seconds behind Vonn.
The Blues boss said he was wrong to open up the midfield at Old Trafford, and conceded his poor set-piece planning cost them in the 3-0 defeat.
Passenger yield (Passenger Revenue per Revenue Passenger Mile) for American has decreased slightly in recent years due to competition from low-cost airlines and poor domestic economic conditions.
Nor does it include the cost of driving poor people (whose limited assets and irregular financial transactions make them particularly costly to service) out of the banking system.
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