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By allowing private-sector participation in debt-equity swaps, China could kill three birds with one stone: advance SOE deleveraging, strengthen corporate governance in the state sector, and enhance economic
efficiency.
To respond to the growing calls to help tackle regional and global security challenges, the EU must improve the
efficiency
and coherence of its external action still further.
That is precisely what McKinsey’s Global Infrastructure Initiative, which held its second meeting in Rio de Janeiro last month, aims to do, by promoting practical global solutions aimed at raising the productivity and
efficiency
of every aspect of infrastructure.
Governments could save $400 billion annually simply by increasing the
efficiency
and productivity of existing infrastructure.
This explanation may seem even more paradoxical than the first, but the logic is straightforward: Governments often try to escape the hard task of improving economic
efficiency
through supply-side reforms and rely on demand-side fixes instead.
In any case, this is an important positive outcome, because international trade is generally regarded as a key determinant of faster growth and higher
efficiency.
First among these is a drive to increase public sector
efficiency
dramatically.
Two decades ago, then-Premier Zhu Rongji began to pursue such reform, with the goal of bolstering the
efficiency
of SOEs and creating space for private-sector investment.
And, using new technology to analyze large amounts of data, they should boost the
efficiency
of social programs, while encouraging the active participation of concerned citizens.
While consumers waited in long lines – and even fought – to fill their gas tanks, governments attempted to encourage innovative solutions by, for example, raising
efficiency
requirements for automobiles and certain appliances, like refrigerators.
In 1977, the US created the Department of Energy (DOE); a year later, it enacted the National Energy Act, which employed tools like industrial regulation and tax incentives to promote fuel
efficiency
and renewable energy.
These efforts led to major improvements in energy
efficiency.
This facilitated a two-decade-long economic boom, while reducing pressure on governments to sustain the momentum of progress toward greater energy
efficiency.
Efficiency
requires sharing research as widely as possible as soon as it is available.
If each country tailors its monetary policy to domestic macroeconomic objectives, exchange rates will settle naturally in a state of Pareto (or maximum)
efficiency.
Water-distribution
efficiency
in Morocco remains low – just 60% for irrigation.
But inflation has its own adverse distributional and
efficiency
implications, and would be fiercely resisted.
Spurred by these pressures, finance experts have proposed several funding alternatives that reduce the risk of biopharma investments while improving the
efficiency
and productivity of the R&D pipeline.
In agriculture and industry, price
efficiency
was achieved not by abolishing quotas and planned allocations, but by allowing producers to trade at market prices at the margin .
To confront the threat, Africa will need to develop and adopt green technologies, while channeling more investment into resource
efficiency
and clean energy.
If Trump is to deliver more jobs and higher incomes to his voters, one vehicle to do so is to promote the green agenda of energy
efficiency
and renewables.
I can agree that attempts at redistribution interfere with the
efficiency
of the market, but it does not follow that no attempt should be made.
By matching Israel’s health-spending efficiency, the US could cut the cost of Medicare and Medicaid by $400 billion annually and eliminate nearly half of the federal deficit.
And widespread adoption of
efficiency
standards for appliances, vehicles, and buildings would help companies and individuals use less energy.
Yes, trade with China is the largest component of this imbalance, but that largely reflects the complexity of multinational supply chains and the benefits of offshore
efficiency
solutions.
So, at least for now, China will focus on another great wave of economic reform, whereas political reform will mostly be limited to reorganization of government agencies to boost
efficiency
and strengthen efforts to reduce corruption.
Ayn Rand’s free-market utopia, so beloved by climate-change deniers, is as detached from real-world complexities, and as likely to produce social and environmental disaster, as simplistic Marxist faith in the inevitable
efficiency
and incorruptibility of the state.
Closing wide information gaps in the market for skills would also increase the
efficiency
of these investments.
On the tradable side, competitiveness depends not only on human capital, but also on a host of other factors: infrastructure, tax systems, regulatory efficiency, policy-induced uncertainty, and energy and health-care costs.
Now that transaction costs are so low, the primary benefit of working at work is that the physical interactions foster an organizational culture and boost creativity, rather than
efficiency
or productivity, within an established routine.
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