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First, the EU should take a leading role in maximizing the efficiency of each member state’s navy, by creating mechanisms that would facilitate the exchange of information between governments, maritime agencies, and navies.
Meanwhile, the cost of renewable energy is falling; energy efficiency is improving, both for generating equipment and for the machines to be powered; and innovative digital technologies are facilitating the management of electricity services.
Private incentives always need to be aligned with social costs and benefits if productive efficiency is to be achieved.
So, before any operation, commanders must determine which troops can take part and in what capacity, hampering both efficiency and effectiveness.
Non-economists tend to think of economics as a discipline that idolizes markets and a narrow concept of (allocative) efficiency.
To increase productivity while preserving social stability, subsidies should be removed with the goal of improving efficiency, not simply to make fiscal cuts.
While the EU will not restore trust in all governing institutions overnight, strong action to restore growth, expand opportunity, protect citizens, improve efficiency, and build the economic infrastructure of the future will make it part of the solution, weakening the perception that it is part of the problem.
The EU needs both the legitimacy that comes from one vote per country, and the efficiency that comes from qualified majority voting.
On March 24, 2010, what all observers of European affairs have long known will be written in stone: the EU failed to attain the targets for economic growth, efficiency, and modernization set ten years ago in Lisbon.
The EU is still very far from having a single energy market, which makes it more costly for business and households and reduces efficiency.
In the absence of sufficient demand, improving supply-side efficiency simply leads to more underutilization of resources.
But China also has ample room to increase its tax base in ways that would increase overall efficiency and/or equity.
The second coalition should be a group of countries – in particular, the 23 members of the Clean Energy Ministerial (CEM), which account for about 80% of global energy demand, 80% of greenhouse-gas emissions, and 90% of clean-energy investments – that agree to double their economies’ rate of energy efficiency.
We have plans that focus on climate-smart agriculture, building greener cities, increasing access to renewable energy, improving energy efficiency, and leveraging our finance for greater private investment.
For example, in the US, energy efficiency measures alone can save over a trillion dollars, while driving job creation and growth in the short-term, aiding the economic recovery and providing the economic stimulus required to accelerate investment in low-carbon energy generation and use.
A clear commitment to emission reduction targets in the developed and developing world to drive technology investment and energy efficiency measures.
Encouraging the private sector to take stakes in SOEs in strategic areas like energy, power, and finance is supposed to increase competition, boost efficiency, and reduce pressure on the government to invest.
E-payments are a key factor in lowering business and transaction costs in China, because they improve efficiency in the retail sector, where prices can still be higher than in the US even when the products are made in China.
This was followed by other important work, including a paper on credit rationing and interest-rate rigidity (co-written with Andrew Weiss) and another paper on efficiency wages.
If successful, a second phase of reform would provide limited investment funds for continued improvement in service delivery and financial efficiency.
It was thought that keeping inflation low was necessary and almost sufficient for growth and stability; that making central banks independent was the only way to ensure confidence in the monetary system; that low debt and deficits would ensure economic convergence among member countries; and that a single market, with money and people flowing freely, would ensure efficiency and stability.
My favorite example is electronic medical records (my wife is a doctor), which have tremendous potential to enhance the efficiency of health-care delivery in the US.
As services and software converge, public officials must enhance their technical skills and work with the private sector to ensure market fairness and efficiency.
Clearly specified fiduciary responsibilities and governance would help to ensure that publicly held assets were managed to maximize long-term risk-adjusted returns, with the state and citizens as beneficiaries and the market as the arbiter of efficiency and innovation.
But the Internet cannot deliver such improvements in efficiency and transparency unless countries build the digital infrastructure needed to connect the world’s huge offline population.
Indeed, empirical research has shown that, throughout history, as far back as the Standard Oil case in the early 20th century, most instances of alleged “predatory pricing” have in fact been cases of superior efficiency.
In Europe, Royal Dutch Shell’s lobbying so diluted the European Union’s efforts that there are now no binding targets for renewables or energy efficiency for individual countries.
The most important priorities include boosting the efficiency of government spending and developing new sources of revenue to replace oil exports.
But increasing efficiency in a wide variety of sectors, as Japan must do, can be a long, difficult, and piecemeal process, as it involves the upgrading of virtually every technology and process.
At the “micro” level, the transaction costs and uncertainties imposed on all businesses by the daily exchange of one currency for another are supposed to decrease, delivering large gains in efficiency as a result.
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