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Similarly, following the Canterbury earthquakes of 2010 and 2011, New Zealand developed the Greater Christchurch Urban Development Strategy, aimed at maximizing the efficiency, livability, and sustainability of cities.
Evict the state from direct economic activity, curb its discretionary powers, and both economic
efficiency
and governance will improve.
Such questions will have increasing salience in light of the concerns about economic
efficiency
and cost containment that are shaping the efforts of today's shamans to read, assess, and tame the future in this, the age of biotechnology.
It remained a monopoly and never developed a strong private interest in
efficiency.
Online talent platforms can boost labor-market
efficiency
by aggregating data on candidates and job openings in a broader geographic area, thereby illuminating for workers which positions are open today, as well as the actions they can take to gain more fulfilling work.
For far different reasons, the US, and the entire world, seems condemned to simplification of thought, action, and feeling in the service of immediate, quotidian
efficiency.
The
efficiency
of these policies is questionable.
Some of it is a destructive transfer from consumers to shareholders as corporations gain more monopoly power, some of it is an improvement in
efficiency
from better management and more appropriately scaled operations, and some of it is overpayment by those who become irrationally exuberant when companies get their names in the news.
The idea here is to demonstrate to the electorate that the government can combine capitulation to the troika with its own agenda of reforms, comprising
efficiency
gains and an assault on the oligarchy that may liberate funds for the purpose of lessening austerity’s impact on weaker Greeks.
Both China and India can learn a lot from Japan, and both governments, fortunately, are firmly committed to increasing their energy
efficiency
and use of green technology.
Indeed, in 2008 India unveiled an ambitious National Action Plan on Climate Change, which includes eight national missions, including solar and enhanced energy
efficiency
missions.
China doubled the
efficiency
of rural energy consumption between 1983 and 1998 by distributing safer and cleaner stoves to 185 million households.
But, as the World Bank notes in its World Development Report 2012, gender equality is an independent value, not just an instrument for economic growth and
efficiency.
Even with a balanced budget, there is still the issue of the effectiveness and
efficiency
of spending, as each dollar of government revenue costs the economy about $1.30, given the distortions to private decisions caused by taxes.
Some US federal agencies are trying to spend ten times their previous budgets – not a recipe for
efficiency
or speed.
Moreover, there is nothing to indicate that the government aid proposed in the budget will reach those who need it with any more
efficiency
than the dismal record so far.
Investments in energy
efficiency
and low-carbon technologies could also pull the global economy out of its economic slowdown over the next couple of years.
The multiplicity of interlocutors inevitably creates a multiplicity of water systems with vastly unequal levels of
efficiency.
According to the Climate Policy Initiative, public financing for agriculture, forestry, and land-use mitigation attracted just $3 billion in 2014, compared to $49 billion for renewable energy generation and $26 billion for energy
efficiency.
This price advantage is often due to exchange rates in places like China and Japan, whose currencies are undervalued by between 25% and 40%, which often offsets US
efficiency
advantages.
Today, they are increasingly taking steps to remove subsidies, introduce market prices, and increase
efficiency
– policies that are more typically associated with energy-importing countries.
Meanwhile, advances in energy
efficiency
are also reducing demand for traditional producers’ exports.
Similarly, the National Science Foundation and the scientific research arm of the US Department of Energy receive a combined total of about $12 billion per year, which they use to advance a wide variety of goals in engineering, energy efficiency, and green energy, and the natural and social sciences.
The
efficiency
savings of academia occur downstream from the activities of the universities themselves.
These benefits come in the form of new and better goods and services, as well as
efficiency
savings for businesses, consumers, and citizens.
Such benchmarking is even more valuable for businesses seeking to improve their operational
efficiency.
Traditional economic remedies, like diversification of ownership, increased efficiency, access to basic education or a minimal pension, have scant impact on resolving these problems.
Indeed, beyond widely discussed targets for energy production for 2030 – covering greenhouse-gas emissions, energy efficiency, and renewable resources – the European Council’s conclusions embrace key elements of a practical and effective approach to energy.
The authorities should focus not only on producing renewable energy, but also on improving the energy
efficiency
of existing systems.
True, America’s founding fathers created a system of checks and balances designed to preserve liberty at the price of
efficiency.
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