This is good if you are a nonperformer but horrible for the company, as it creates an undynamic, zombie-state working environment with horrible productivity.

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Lenders have also reportedly been allowed to avoid booking losses on loans to Air India, a state-owned zombie.

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The scholar John Quiggin published "Zombie Economics" as a way to grab reader attention about the ill state of current economic theory.

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