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Fuel and raw material shortages, chronic underinvestment and nationalisations have hollowed out the local economy.
From BBC • Mar. 26, 2026
Tencent’s cloud revenue has lagged behind rivals such as Alibaba and Bytedance due to underinvestment in GPUs to fulfill ever-rising demand from clients, they say.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 23, 2026
The co-authors wrote that there is a “systematic underinvestment in pro-worker AI,” a term for technology that makes human capabilities more valuable.
From MarketWatch • Mar. 12, 2026
But the fraud contributed to the sense that the Louvre is wobbling after years of underinvestment and mismanagement.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 17, 2026
It also reflects the continued underinvestment in agriculture in favor of industry, despite the grandiose, plans for agricultural transformation, considering that agriculture contributed 22 percent of the national income in 1970.
From Area Handbook for Bulgaria by Baluyut, Violeta D.
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