"Companies ended up building where barriers to entry were low and impediments to building were non-existent," said Kathryn A. Sweeney, a portfolio manager at AEW Capital Management in Boston who specializes in senior housing investments.
4. Impediments to entry: To begin with, let us remove sector limits on F.D.I. and year-long approval processes as these are anachronistic in a competitive market for capital.
When we look at a sample of wealthy sophisticated households who should not find entry costs as an impediment to own stocks, there is still an important percentage of them who are not participating in the stock market at all.
All three of these businesses are characterized by a small number of competitors, structural impediments to market entry and consequently high margins.
Increased transparency around patenting of vaccine technologies, stricter patentability criteria suited for local development needs and strengthening of IPRs management capabilities where relevant, may help reduce impediments to market entry for new manufacturers and ensure a competitive supplier base for quality vaccines at sustainably low prices.
Lignin functions as a physical impediment, either physically blocking pathogen entry or increasing leaf toughness to make chewing by herbivores more difficult.
Less binding impediments to foreign bank ownership and entry are generally associated with more favourable prices for customers and more access to credit ("good").
He also said that Mr. Bruno's entry into the debate removed the last major impediment to change.
These antimicrobial peptides, which are synthesized in the skin at sites of potential microbial entry, provide a soluble barrier that acts as an impediment to infection.
Given the fact that there are less than two months until the election, the justices wrote, "the most judicious remedy, in such a circumstance, is the entry of a preliminary injunction, which may moot further controversy as the constitutional impediments dissipate".
It's both retrospective-analysing the successes an challenges of the reform so far,and the impediments to reform, from the perspective of different stakeholders-and forward-looking, indicating entry points for further support to the reform process.
