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OF WORLD PROBLEMS

AND HUMAN POTENTIAL

  2. World problems
  3. Prohibitive costs for businesses

Prohibitive costs for businesses

  • High operational costs
  • Excessive commercial costs

Broader

Discouraging conditions for small business
Presentable
Excessive costs
Unpresentable

Narrower

Prohibitive cost of business security
Excellent
Prohibitive cost of product liability protection
Presentable
Prohibitive cost of basic services
Presentable
Prohibitive cost of insurance
Unpresentable
Prohibitive cost of imported goods
Unpresentable
Prohibitive cost of fishing equipment
Unpresentable
Prohibitive cost of equipment maintenance
Unpresentable
Prohibitive cost of electricity
Unpresentable
High cost of commercial buildings
Unpresentable
Dependence on costly trading intermediaries
Unpresentable
Prohibitive refrigeration costs
Yet to rate
Prohibitive labour costs
Yet to rate
Prohibitive costs of purification of effluents and emissions
Yet to rate
Prohibitive costs of farming
Yet to rate
Prohibitive cost of maintenance
Yet to rate
Prohibitive cost of maintaining imported technologies
Yet to rate
Prohibitive cost of advertising
Yet to rate

Aggravates

Transfer of industries to low-wage countries
Presentable
Prohibitive cost of goods and services
Presentable
Diminishing capital investment in small communities
Presentable
Business bankruptcy
Presentable
Small business failures
Unpresentable
Unsustained new businesses
Yet to rate
Insufficient operating capital
Yet to rate
Insufficient commercial facilities
Yet to rate

Aggravated by

Prohibitive cost of transportation
Unpresentable
Prohibitive cost of capital equipment
Unpresentable
High interest rates
Yet to rate

Related

Prohibitive cost of cooperative start-up
Unpresentable

Value

Prohibition
Yet to rate
Operational
Yet to rate
High-spiritedness
Yet to rate
High-mindedness
Yet to rate
Excess
Yet to rate

SDG

Sustainable Development Goal #12: Responsible Consumption and Production

Metadata

Database
World problems
Type
(F) Fuzzy exceptional problems
Biological classification
N/A
Subject
  • Commerce » Commerce
  • Commerce » Purchasing, supplying
  • Commerce » Business enterprises
  • Cybernetics » Cybernetics
    • Content quality
    Yet to rate
     Yet to rate
    Language
    English
    1A4N
    G9244
    DOCID
    11792440
    D7NID
    138152
    Last update
    Dec 3, 2024