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Arab governments must also boost the efficiency of their spending.
Because investing in human capital is the most important long-term action a government can take, the Human Capital Project focuses on identifying the factors that are undermining the efficiency of investments in this area.
Even before comprehensive data are available, however, some approaches for improving the efficiency of public spending and administration stand out.
Excessive regulation that protects incumbent firms and other vested interests undermines market competitiveness and limits prospects for improved productivity and efficiency.
And Appelbaum and Batt are careful to point out that many private-equity firms bring better management or other efficiency improvements to their portfolio companies.
At the core of India's reform agenda lay a reorientation of the government's role in the economy: to improve efficiency by minimising unnecessary state intervention, thus freeing the private sector to raise long-term economic growth.
The problem is that in a world of universal benchmarking, the legitimacy of solutions will stem more than ever from their cultural acceptability and their efficiency.
While all this may be true, the question remains: how do we make sure that public services are run with reasonable efficiency and produce the results intended by governments and expected by taxpayers?
Proponents of free trade have always celebrated the growth of international commerce because they regard it as a sign that countries are capitalizing on their comparative advantages through specialization, which implies increased efficiency overall.
Again, I think that the EU is leading the way in developing countries with development policies that promote broad-based rural economic growth by boosting primary production and increasing its efficiency.
Higher prices for carbon-based energy would also usefully strengthen incentives for energy efficiency, reducing the danger of “rebound effects,” whereby falling energy costs increase energy consumption.
They seem willing to surrender some social guarantees in exchange for that efficiency and increased personal liberty.
Research at McKinsey into the effectiveness and cost of more than 200 mechanisms for reducing carbon emissions – from greater car efficiency to nuclear power, improved insulation in buildings, and better forest management – suggests that only concerted global action can ensure levels that the scientific community says is necessary to avoid the disastrous consequences of climate change.
Capturing the energy efficiency prize is critical both to climate and energy security – and it relies on a well-known set of policy signals and a proven set of technologies.
But if the fluctuations can be “ironed out,” as John Maynard Keynes put it, total economic efficiency can be improved.
Boosting energy efficiency may be one of the most cost-effective ways to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions; but in Latin America, improvements in this area would entail persuading tens of millions of small businesses to switch to more environmentally friendly refrigerators, power tools, or delivery trucks.
Toyota Europe’s executives felt that making English the working language would contribute to improving trust, communications, and efficiency, and also to retaining high-quality staff.
Interest-rate differentials – including premiums reflecting the heightened risk of a eurozone exit and exchange-rate realignment to reestablish competitiveness – are crucial for the monetary union’s long-term existence, stability, and allocative efficiency.
Incorporating water risk into McDonald’s Environmental Scorecard is an important step in engaging suppliers not only on water efficiency, but also in overall stewardship, including cooperation with local watershed stakeholders.
On the other hand, reducing demand through improved energy efficiency and conservation measures are beneficial for both the security of supplies and the global climate.
But it is not enough for the US and European Union countries to improve their energy efficiency unless other countries do so as well.
Democracy may be imperfect, but compared to other arrangements it remains the best instrument for adapting to the world with flexibility and efficiency.
Because most people confuse strength with efficiency, they believe that the state must again acquire sufficient power to enforce its will.
Each time that machines yielded gains in efficiency (including when tractors took over from horses), old jobs disappeared, but new jobs were created.
Even if EMU membership did not promise a more stable and competitive business environment, increased efficiency, and faster growth throughout the enlarged euro area, minimizing exposure to financial contagion is reason enough to join as soon as possible.
But think where we’d be if we could improve the efficiency of solar cells by a factor of ten – in other words, if we could make them cheaper than fossil fuels.
A narrow focus on, say, developing better batteries, improving fuel efficiency, or making automobile production more sustainable is inadequate to catalyze the needed transformation.
After Japan’s nuclear disaster at Fukushima, Germany decided to shut down its entire nuclear power industry and shift entirely to a strategy based on greater energy efficiency (lower energy input per unit of national income) and renewables.
Most studies show that deep de-carbonization of the world economy from now to mid-century, a time horizon mandated by environmental realities, will require that all low-carbon options – including greater efficiency and renewables – be scaled up massively.
By contrast, in an information economy, feedback is often positive: rising demand produces higher efficiency, higher returns, and lower prices, leading to yet higher demand.
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