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ENCYCLOPEDIA

OF WORLD PROBLEMS

AND HUMAN POTENTIAL

  2. World problems
  3. Unwanted products and services

Unwanted products and services

  • Non-competitive products
  • Locally unmarketable products
  • Availability of unrequested services
  • Promotion of unwanted services

Broader

Production of non-essentials
Unpresentable

Narrower

Unsolicited foodstamp distribution
Unpresentable
Unwanted telephone referendum
Yet to rate
Unwanted mineral survey
Yet to rate
Unwanted depot
Yet to rate
Perpetuated unessential services
Yet to rate
Overlooked community services
Yet to rate
Abusive sales techniques
Yet to rate

Aggravates

Unnecessary personal consumption
Presentable
Dumping of withdrawn products
Unpresentable

Aggravated by

Deficient business leadership
Excellent
Unfair competition from convict-made goods
Presentable
Proliferation of consumer products
Presentable
Fragmented planning of community life
Presentable
Defective product manufacture
Presentable
Prohibitive cost of imported goods
Unpresentable
Over-diversification of manufactured goods
Unpresentable
Vulnerability of national economies to vagaries of external markets for goods and services
Yet to rate
Inflexibility of commodity supply
Yet to rate

Strategy

Competing in business
Unpresentable
Reducing unwanted products and services
Yet to rate
Exporting products
Yet to rate

Value

Unwanted
Yet to rate
Competition [D]
Yet to rate
Unmarketable
Yet to rate

SDG

Sustainable Development Goal #1: No PovertySustainable Development Goal #10: Reduced InequalitySustainable Development Goal #12: Responsible Consumption and Production

Metadata

Database
World problems
Type
(F) Fuzzy exceptional problems
Biological classification
N/A
Subject
Content quality
Yet to rate
 Yet to rate
Language
English
1A4N
G9751
DOCID
11797510
D7NID
137641
Editing link
Official link
https://encyclopedia.uia.org/problem/unwanted-products-and-services
Last update
Dec 3, 2024