The movie and television industries have been struggling for years with a continuing slide in home entertainment sales, as piracy took a toll, and consumers spent less to purchase discs, and showed a growing preference for cheaper digital formats and low-priced rentals.
The two reviews, though from the same organisation, come up with very different perspectives and conclusions; for example, Babies and Bosses shows a clear preference for cheaper forms of provision and demand-side funding mechanisms (for a fuller discussion of these two OECD reviews, see Mahon, in press).
The higher use of GDs among the elderly population may also be related to their lower spending power, which may cause a preference for cheaper products like GDs.
The region's high statistics are partly explained by the preference for cheap and easy motorbikes over cars, and their resulting ubiquity.
The charismatic Mr. Footman had a preference for cheap cigars and wore a big plastic spider pendant around his neck and a baseball hat with a label that said "Old Dude made of Achey Breaky Parts!" Despite his age, he talked about women with the excitement of an undergraduate during an interview last year at the cab depot.
In addition, poverty and preference for cheap fuel materials were mentioned as factors contributing to the use of alternative fuels such as plastic bags, gunny bags, and cloth rags, especially among roadside food vendors in Korogocho, and as such, contributing to air pollution.
The sluggish start was due in part to an off-base assessment of local preferences for cheaper, pre-paid cellphone plans, according to China Market Research Group founder Shaun Rein.
This findings may be the result of reductions both in the number of patients started on AHT and in drug prices, rather than attributable to a shift in prescribing preferences for cheaper therapeutic options (see Table 4).
The authors highlight the importance of packaging, such as a carton as an alternative to glass, in driving the preferences for cheap wines.
"What's stopped us is the failure of leadership, the smallness of our politics -- the ease with which we're distracted by the petty and trivial, our chronic avoidance of tough decisions, our preference for scoring cheap political points instead of rolling up our sleeves and building a working consensus to tackle big problems...
Not only is growth in the spirits industry picking up again from the doldrums of the mid-1990s, byoyed by an ageing population and a growing preference for expensive brands over cheap ones.
