The High Cost of Cheap Fashion

The Geopolitical Impact of Cheap Oil

Tom stayed at a cheap hotel.

Concerns have been raised about the influx of cheap labor.

Providing consumers with a way to make low cost telephone calls over the Internet.

We are not seeking ostentatious posts and cheap popularity.

Undercutting the wildlife crime industry means selling horn cheaply.

These dynamic giants terrify the wealthy populations of the industrialized world with the potential power of their low cost competition, cheap products, and outsourcing of services.

Or just better, cheaper, more reliable health care for all?

Making green energy cheap and prevalent will also take a long time.

Growing debt burdens suggest that this form of cheap politics has run its course.

The food wasn't good, but at least it was cheap.

This is also important in realizing the vision of becoming a high income nation.

Of course, China also has abundant cheap labor to process ore.

Without plentiful and low cost energy, every aspect of the global economy is threatened.

Policymakers must simply be willing to forego some of the short term stimulus effects of cheaper energy.

We know too, that we are a source of cheap labour for Europe.

Videos on YouTube show teenagers drinking sanitizer for a cheap buzz.

It is thus wrong to assume that economies based on cheap labor are massively outcompeting the EU.

Communication expert Wazir Satter remembered an era of cheap food after seeing a street photo of the New Market area

Second, the early success of China infrastructure was built on cheap land, capital, and labor.

Moreover, the distortion to global markets caused by trading in illegally, cheaply produced products results in disadvantages for responsible corporate citizens.

Nuclear power offers the possibility of cheap, plentiful electricity, which will contribute to social and political stability.

Most of the small businesses, small factories, plantations still rely on cheap labor to make a hefty profit.

Europeans may be more cheerful, believing that the Chinese market will open not only for European engineering products and machine tools to equip the new workshop of the world, but also for luxury goods and even the tourism demanded by a new and affluent Chinese middle class.

It is my hope that China s comparative advantage as a low wage producer does disappear the sooner the better.

Some must pay excessive taxes, while others operate out of tax havens. Some find it easy to recruit top notch engineers, whereas for others enjoy an abundance of cheap labor.

Some find it easy to recruit top notch engineers, whereas for others enjoy an abundance of cheap labor.

Mexico, Brazil, Central Europe, Indonesia, and even Sri Lanka are worried about competition from lower wages.

Some there might be tempted by the allure of a better life in Mother Russia, with its vast resources of cheap energy.

Instead, our upsized research will make green energy cheaper than fossil fuels by mid century.

Instead of repealing the law, overtime work is to become easy and relatively cheap.

That you're much better off, almost universally, looking for a low cost or locally applicable version of the newest technology.

This is another important consequence of cheap oil lower prices make it more difficult to judge the point at which wage pressure becomes inflationary.

Moreover, exports to low wage countries cannot compensate for job losses.

They naturally raised concerns, or expectations, that China s labor cost advantages may be disappearing.

Even as the SARS epidemic raged in China, Japanese companies kept their long term investment bets on the promise of low cost Chinese labor.

Some proposed climate engineering technologies in particular, marine cloud whitening technology could be cheap, fast, and effective. (Boats would spray seawater droplets into clouds above the oceans to make them reflect more sunlight back into space, reducing warming).

This is not in everyone s interest, to be sure Pointing out the benefits of cheap labor will not persuade people whose wages might be undercut.

Some proposed climate engineering technologies in particular, marine cloud whitening technology could be cheap, fast, and effective.

More often it is the politics of protectionism that are the crucial factor behind trade defenses. Anti dumping measures are frequently used against products that are simply so cheap that they pose a threat to European producers, even though that is no more than fair competition.

The country with the highest labor costs in the world was confronted with low wage competitors next door.

China and India represent more than mushrooming factories and low cost semi skilled labor. Just as in Europe, the industrial revolution in Chindia is also creating an ambitious new middle class that is willing and able to send its children to university.

But, starting with the US and EU, rich countries fear increasing unemployment due to competition from developing countries armed with cheap labour.

For years, as optimists see it, China has been the world s cheap assembly shop for shoes, clothing, and microwave ovens. Now, it is laying the groundwork to become a global power in more sophisticated, technology intensive industries.