Undeveloped storage infrastructure presents a special challenge in northern Afghanistan, where food security is undermined by highly variable water supplies, inefficient water allocation rules, and a damaged irrigation system due three decades of war and conflict.
An increase in petrol prices therefore increases the available supply of inefficient cars while reducing the demand, which leads to a large decline in the relative price of inefficient automobiles.What would be really interesting to see, however, is how this dynamic has been impacted by Cash for Clunkers, which, you may remember, involved the destruction of inefficient trade-ins.
Much of the destruction of wildlife and the countryside - Britain's hedges and meadows and the 200m hectares of tropical rainforest since the 1960s - has been committed to supply the inefficient demands of the meat and dairy industry.
The firebed (grate) air inlet dampers had not been built to the drawings; they were too small, resulting in poor air supply and inefficient combustion.
There was rising demand for sperm and a limited, inefficient supply.
Russia can provide the apples, but because of inefficient supply chains, Russian apples are more expensive than Polish ones.
These are now bringing some production back home, whether because of rising wages in China, concerns about quality, or to shorten complex and inefficient supply chains.
A long and inefficient supply chain means that the average farmer receives less than a fifth of the price the consumer pays, a World Bank study found, far less than farmers in, say, Thailand or the United States.
In contrast the liquid-soap plant near its Manchester headquarters carries inputs to keep it going for just four hours, plus a few lorry-loads of finished goods.Back to basicsDispersed customers and inefficient supply chains increase the cost of doing business.
