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So India will need huge increases in water
efficiency.
They must demonstrate their efficiency, capacity to innovate, and ability to invigorate the continent with renewed dynamism and drive.
Given the prevalence of repetitive constructions and ubiquitous waste, investment
efficiency
is deteriorating quickly.
With greater investments, it will be possible to raise farm yields, lower energy use to heat and cool buildings, achieve greater fuel
efficiency
for cars, and more.
The right balance may vary depending on the size of the economy, the
efficiency
of domestic funding sources, and the strength of regulation and supervision.
Moreover, advances in our understanding of disease are boosting the
efficiency
of the drug development process, making it possible to bring new innovations to market faster.
Thus, the evidence suggests that public funding of all key aspects of medical care – physician and hospital services, drugs, and devices –- offers benefits of equity, efficiency, and industrial advantage.
Pathways to a low-carbon future focus on three main actions: improving energy efficiency, producing electricity from low-carbon energy sources (such as solar and wind energy), and switching from petroleum to low-carbon energy for powering vehicles (such as electric or fuel-cell vehicles) and heating buildings.
By limiting the total number of indicators studied and producing clear benchmarks, it helps policymakers to define their objectives and to improve the
efficiency
of regulation in crucial areas.
Early criticism came from France, which vigorously objected to the 2004 and 2006 editions’ endorsement of the “legal origins” theory, which suggests that common-law countries benefit from greater regulatory
efficiency
than civil-law countries.
An evaluation of US Department of Energy
efficiency
programs found that the net benefits amounted to $30 billion – an excellent return for an investment of roughly $7 billion over 22 years (in 1999 dollars).
Only it can establish progressive taxes, adequate regulation of privatized public services, support to small and medium size companies, more
efficiency
in the public spending and a significant improvement in the education and health systems.
Under Hollande, France’s Socialists favor achieving that renewal through a process of social dialogue that convinces rather than imposes, that focuses both on revenue measures and on boosting government efficiency, and that may adopt some of northern Europe’s more successful “flexicurity” policies, which combine greater labor-market flexibility with strong social protection.
The SED meeting next week in Beijing will focus on five areas: integrity of trade and product safety; balanced economic development, including financial sector reform; energy
efficiency
and security; environmental sustainability; and bilateral investment.
The meeting comes at a delicate time, as a new group of leaders moves into China’s senior positions, and as the agenda has been broadened to include food and product safety, energy
efficiency
and security, and environmental sustainability.
Likewise, for both our countries, greater energy
efficiency
and security requires reliance upon market price signals, technology, innovation, and diversified energy sources.
The Global Nuclear Energy Partnership, clean coal development through FutureGen, and industrial
efficiency
audits represent some of the most productive areas of ongoing cooperation.
Officials seem worried that a larger public role might undermine financial discipline; in other words, like the advanced economies before 2008, they assume that dangers to
efficiency
and stability result solely from an overactive state.
The next stage needs the world’s engineering experts on power generation and transmission, electric vehicles, hydrogen fuel cells, artificial intelligence for energy systems management, urban design for energy
efficiency
and public transport, and related specialists.
Nor, he might have added, would being able to buy goods more cheaply compensate for many other good things in life that are sacrificed to
efficiency.
Equally, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Developemnt has placed energy
efficiency
center-stage in much of its work on market-led sectoral transformation programs across Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union.
Singapore’s Changi Airport is a rare exception: it solicits user ratings at every turn, via feedback screens with cheery, touch-enabled smiley-face emoticons that request travelers’ opinions on everything from the
efficiency
of immigration service to the cleanliness of toilets.
The ACA has been changing that, by establishing myriad new incentives to foster
efficiency
in health-care delivery – for example, by reducing costly and unnecessary hospital infections and readmissions, and by adopting electronic health records.
Aside from the usual
efficiency
arguments, it is just going to become increasingly difficult and costly to maintain complex and idiosyncratic national tax arrangements.
One can only hope that our children’s generation will grow up to live in a world that does a better job of balancing
efficiency
and equity than we do.
This “new normal” for oil reflects new realities: China’s economic growth – and so its demand for oil – is bound to be lower; the world’s energy
efficiency
will increase, not least because of commitments made in December at the Paris conference on climate change; and disruptive innovation is making shale oil and gas, along with renewable energy sources, far more competitive.
Eliminating the subsidies would not only stimulate investment in energy
efficiency
and solar power, but would also generate substantial environmental and public-health benefits.
As a result, there are huge disparities among firms in terms of
efficiency
– and hence in the income they can distribute.
America can and should, for example, become the global leader combating climate change through major investments in alternative energy, conservation, and energy efficiency, and by taking strong actions at home to reduce America’s greenhouse gas emissions.
This leads to a clear increase in
efficiency
and provides overall income gains.
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