When their absorptive capacities are reached, natural systems are liable to collapse into unproductive states.

It is obvious that this measure creates havoc in business and leads to deeply unproductive outcomes.

Policymakers often view nomadic pastoralism as an archaic and unproductive way of life, with little economic benefit.

Of the rest of the land, 20.1 is settled (buildings or roads) and 5.8 is unproductive land.

Forests occupy about one third of the canton with about one quarter being considered unproductive (mountains or glaciers).

Santiago Villegas cautioned that getting emotional about incidents on the metro, even with eyewitness camera footage, can be unproductive.

This can continue for a time, rewarding unproductive investments and aspiring oligarch speculators who presume that the Fed has eliminated risk.

Moreover, unemployment is low compared to the Western world, because the unproductive distribution sector absorbs young people who cannot find better jobs.

The Fund urges that savings be found in unproductive spending meaning excessive military spending, subsidies for the well to do, and inefficient administrative practices.

Worse yet, low tax revenues in poor countries often result from defects in tax collection systems (rather than low tax rates) that also promote unproductive enterprise.

Only during the very first days in Moscow had the unproductive but inevitable expenditure, so strange to country folk, yet demanded on all sides, startled Levin.

Australia s new foreign minister, Julie Bishop, has talked, as foreign ministers often do, of the need to avoid unproductive megaphone diplomacy and to engage, not enrage her counterparts.

Indeed the only serious risk from the Doha round s failure is that rich countries would take their own rhetoric seriously and react in unproductive ways that prove self fulfilling.

My own efforts to advance the cause of UN reform when I was Australia s foreign minister were about as quixotic and unproductive as anything I have ever tried to do.

Today, Rand s fictional world has seemingly become a reality endless bailouts and economic stimulus for the unproductive at the expense of the most productive, and calls for additional taxation on capital investment.

Ultimately, whether this is due to self insurance or to exchange rate targeting matters little yesterday this unproductive growth in reserves was an indirect cause of the crisis today it is undermining demand.

Indeed, in Book II of The Wealth of Nations, Smith condemned as unproductive the labors of churchmen, lawyers, physicians, men of letters of all kinds players, buffoons, musicians, opera singers, opera dancers, etc.

There is a simple Keynesian recipe First, shift spending away from unproductive uses such as wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, or unconditional bank bailouts that do not revive lending toward high return investments.

Because of the financial crisis, many politicians have accepted the argument, in a virtual throwback to Adam Smith, that financial services are unproductive even counterproductive and need to be scaled back by governmental intervention.

Because of the financial crisis, many politicians have accepted the argument, in a virtual throwback to Adam Smith, that financial services are unproductive even counterproductive  and need to be scaled back by governmental intervention.

These measures lead to unproductive businesses, to a lack of transparency that fosters the worst cases of abuse and corruption, and the loss of potential export revenues, which, at this stage, are invaluable for Russia's development.

Although over 70 of national income remains in the hands of just 20 of the population, Chavez has forced big foreign oil companies to pay much higher royalties and has started expropriating unproductive land and industrial facilities.

It so happened that the important Committee of June 2nd had had brought before it the question of irrigation in the Zaraysk Province, which belonged to Karenin's Department, and presented a striking example of unproductive expenditure and useless red tape methods.

Generating sufficient political support to enact reforms that can survive the opposition of vested interests requires attempting to deregulate the entire economy simultaneously, not select industries, one by one. The key to eliminating inefficient, unproductive subsidies to minorities is to implement tax reductions for all.

Despite some recent diversification, investment flows have been heavily tilted to construction of oil and gas pipelines and other large international projects. Moreover, military expenditure has increased from 1 to 7 of GDP since 2003, drawing resources away from human development into unproductive investment.

These numbers reflect the fact that IMF advice to countries facing budgetary pressures emphasizes the importance of sustaining expenditures on health and education. The Fund urges that savings be found in unproductive spending meaning excessive military spending, subsidies for the well to do, and inefficient administrative practices.