Production chains are facing labor shortages, wage increases, and threats of relocation to lower cost countries.

However, fabrication of the OLED substrate is more costly than that of a TFT LCD, until mass production methods lower cost through scalability.

A literal application of the principle of lowest acceptable bid would mean that preference should be given to direct procurement from manufacturers where this latter option proves less costly than local procurement.

Inversely, the total holding cost increases as the production quantity increases.

It is reprehensible that the poor are expected to absorb the cost of instabilities of production.

Using the most recent exchange rates, T3 cost only 3.86 billion compared with 8.6 billion for London s T5.

Applications of industrial and environmental biotechnology promise to cut the cost of production, the number of processing steps and energy consumption.

Outcomes plotted in Quadrant I are more effective and more expensive, those in Quadrant II are more effective and less expensive, those in Quadrant III are less effective and less expensive, and those in Quadrant IV are less effective and more expensive.

Brazilian sugar based ethanol costs far less to produce than American corn based ethanol.

Flat panels have been around much longer and are less expensive.

These are less expensive and more easily laundered than natural down or feathers.

The deal with Amazon helped CBS to mitigate the high production cost of nearly 3 million per episode.

When investors make less risky loans, they require a lower risk premium , thereby reducing the cost of borrowing to the borrower.

Some disasters are less likely than others, and some remedies are more costly than others.

I studied all the new things that had happened in solar cells, and was trying to look for ways we could innovate and make solar cells more inexpensively.

In the meantime, governments and donors should consider cheaper short term options.

Policies are needed to support technology transfer that facilitates remittances or investments by making such transfers less costly.

The least developed countries, in particular, have remained marginalized in international trade and production chains.

Finally, it is often claimed that GM crops simply mean costlier seeds and less money for farmers.

MPAs offer the added advantage over subsidized industrial fishing by creating regions where the recovery of fish stock and endangered species could take place for less than the cost of subsidizing the global industrial fisheries.

In the process, it will shed lower value added jobs in its export sector as production moves to lower cost developing countries.

Everything about the production method is geared towards turning live animals into machines for converting grain into meat or eggs at the lowest possible cost.

Sunlabob, a private company in Laos, is renting solar lanterns to poor villagers, who find them more affordable than candles.

But some foreign manufacturers, seeking to cap rising labor costs, are shifting production from China to cheaper destinations such as Vietnam, where average monthly wages for factory workers is 50 60 half that of China. Foreign direct investment (FDI) in Vietnam grew by 40 in 2005, led by investors from Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan.

A lower cost version of the 68030, the Motorola 68EC030, was also released, lacking the on chip MMU.

... exporters can offer US surpluses for sale at prices around half the cost of production destroying local agriculture and creating a captive market in the process.

It simply means that when Great Britain installs a wind turbine, it becomes cheaper to burn coal in Portugal or Poland.

In the long run, solidarity is cheaper for all involved, while its absence could become ruinously expensive in the foreseeable future.

Like a doomed marriage, it is better to have rules for the inevitable divorce that make separation less costly to both sides.

A stronger renminbi would simply mean a switch in the US from China to lower cost producers of textiles, apparel, and other goods.

Because these collectors need not withstand high temperatures, they can use less expensive materials such as plastic or rubber.

Building such a network would be far cheaper than constructing even a single new printing plant and it would be far more effective.

Java ME may offer a lower cost to market because most carriers allow non certified Java ME applications to run on their phones.

Enabling developing nations to access vitally needed pharmaceuticals at rates reasonably close to the cost of production will not put transnational drug companies out of business.

China will come under pressure to revalue its currency (now being held at artificially low levels) so that Chinese exports are more expensive and imports from others (including the US) cheaper.

And in places where lights are not used very often, a lower price incandescent bulb can cost less overall than the energy efficient alternative.

It was also noted that providing a website address for such material would be more economical than providing paper copies.

(Lyle Vanclief, Former Canadian Minister of Agriculture 1997 2003 )According to The Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy, corn, soybeans, cotton, wheat and rice are sold below the cost of production, or dumped.

The largest and best equipped farms are highly competitive, in the sense that they can produce for markets at a lower cost.

We need to make emission cuts much cheaper so that countries like China and India can afford to help the environment.

In order for the whole planet to make a sustainable shift away from fossil fuels, we need to make low carbon energy both cheaper and more efficient.

The authors speculate that easier loan securitization may have made risky CRA compliant loans seem less costly.

They will also try to lower Japan s dependence on exports and rethink sending production facilities to lower wage countries.

For the first half of 1993, overall agricultural production was 35 percent less than for the same period of 1992.

UNICEF will support and participate in various types of communication with policymakers and stakeholders to decide on the most cost effective policies and strategies that are feasible in the local context.