TOKYO Asian manufacturers have always migrated in search of cheaper labor.

You have expensive taste! the shopkeeper exclaimed. Are you sure you don't want to look through our cheaper variants first?

The country s declining number of voters are lining up in favor of cheaper, imported food.

We're not DNA zealots, but DNA is the cheapest, easiest to understand and easy to program material to do this.

After all, it would be much cheaper to expand existing land pipelines than to build undersea.

This underscores the importance of striving for free trade, thereby enabling cheaper agricultural production while increasing wages in non agricultural sectors.

Of course, no one should write off the strength of China's export machine, even at the cheapest end of production.

The immigrant receives a higher wage than at home, and the target country benefits from cheap labor, which creates more value than it costs.

Indeed, to many, it is cheaper to fly to Brazil than to be smuggled into Europe, which is also notoriously dangerous.

People might trade away cheaper goods for assurances that a wide range of productive and rewarding employment options would be available, now and in the future.

Yet it is argued that much higher taxes and subsidies are the best way to increase research and development in new, cheaper renewable energy sources.

The 98x5 series of technical desktop computers started in 1975 with the 9815, and the cheaper 80 series, again of technical computers, started in 1979 with the 85.

Iron crankshafts are today mostly found in cheaper production engines (such as those found in the Ford Focus diesel engines) where the loads are lower.

If a cheaper dollar leads to an invasion of US exports to the Middle East and rising living standards in the region, all parties will be far better served.

Today, with interest rates near or at record lows in many countries, it is relatively cheap to speculate in gold instead of investing in bonds.

The Doha Round of trade negotiations is stalled because developed countries do not want to open their markets to cheaper products from developing countries, which in turn try to protect what nascent industries they have.

Nearly every study points in the same direction a large boost in the too big to fail subsidy during and after the financial crisis, making it cheaper for big banks to borrow.

Nor was it meant to be a system of redistribution from richer to poorer countries via cheaper borrowing for governments by means of common Eurobonds or outright fiscal transfers.

Along with tighter margins, low cost financing, and cheaper materials, this allows Chinese firms to compete for projects with tenders for as little as half the price sought by their Western competitors.

It is unskilled, labor saving technical change that is putting pressure on the wages of workers, whereas imports of cheaper, labor intensive goods from developing countries help the poor who consume these goods.

They take their leisure very seriously they acquire skills they invest time they use technology that's getting cheaper it's not just the Internet cameras, design technology, leisure technology, surfboards, so on and so forth.

Five hundred thousand years of experience in hunting and gathering, coupled with cheaper and faster molecular analysis, performed by faster and cheaper computers makes this task economically feasible.

As a consequence of this mixed set of motivations, SMEs from Singapore tend to invest regionally in nearby host countries that are both cheaper in terms of production costs and culturally closer in terms of ethnic relations (e.g. China and Malaysia).

This underscores the importance of striving for free trade, thereby enabling cheaper agricultural production while increasing wages in non agricultural sectors.

That s not a trivial sum, but it isn t out of reach, especially considering that affluent nations would also benefit from cheaper drugs and from medical research that was focused on reducing disease rather than on maximizing profits.

Of course, no one should write off the strength of China's export machine, even at the cheapest end of production. Like Japan 40 years ago, Chinese production is moving up the ladder to higher value added products.

The IMF warns about Dutch disease problems, when an influx of foreign exchange drives up the local currency s exchange rate, making it difficult to create jobs in the export sector or to protect jobs against an onslaught of cheaper foreign imports.

It was not preferential policies or skewed resource allocation by the government that caused China s coastal cities to boom, but rather their proximity to the ocean, which was and remains the cheapest way to move resources and products.

Typically used in the business world, outsourcing often entails an enterprise using another company, such as a consultancy or application service provider, to provide a service that the enterprise can provide for itself, when it is cheaper to utilize a third party's resources.