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Economists call policies where no one can be made better off without making someone else worse off Pareto efficient.
The problem is that many policies advanced by technocrats as if they were Pareto efficient are in fact flawed and make many people--sometimes entire countries--worse off.
In a few countries, private-sector participation in electricity companies, coupled with new independent regulators, has resulted in greater and more efficient power generation and higher employment, while doubling the number of subscribers.
It would be counterproductive to focus on treating the symptoms, only to realize later that the unprecedented budgets for structural policies are neither economically efficient nor politically acceptable.
Indeed, just as a national fiscal stimulus is less efficient than a coordinated effort, strengthening financial regulations without combating the laxity that prevails elsewhere makes no sense in a globalized world.
As the fast-growing sectors absorb an increasing amount of resources, a shift toward more market-oriented interest rates is needed to ensure efficient allocation.
So, when they are privatized, they become more efficient, but they also shed workers.
This unequal investment is neither equitable nor efficient.
But such support has not always been economically efficient.
During the last five years, dozens of solar manufacturing companies have failed, only to be replaced by stronger, more innovative, and more efficient players.
The case of Switzerland – which is even more integrated into EU production chains than the UK – shows that efficient customs administrations on both sides are enough to keep such barriers to a minimum.
India’s private sector is efficient and entrepreneurial, and its capital and management skills have proven able to control and manage assets in the sophisticated financial markets of the developed West.
If he were truly concerned about global warming, how could he have endorsed the construction of coal-fired electricity plants, even if those plants use more efficient technologies than have been employed in the past?
The Kyoto Protocol represented the international community’s attempt to begin to deal with global warming in a fair and efficient way.
Information-sharing among Europe’s navies would also help to identify and fill existing gaps, thus paving the way for a more efficient European maritime-security infrastructure.
Governments are great at funding and carrying out research, but competitive private companies motivated by profit and glory tend to be more efficient and speedier in applying the results.
This kind of redundancy is actually efficient in the long run, as each player experiments and all of them learn from everyone’s failures and successes.
And more efficient health services might spend less on hospitals and doctors and more on encouraging healthy lifestyles.
And he views globalization as a good thing, but understands that it must be managed through durable, efficient international agreements and institutions.
No other currency can yet challenge the dollar as an investment medium or reserve asset, nor can other countries match America’s extraordinarily efficient financial markets, which provide unparalleled liquidity.
Instead, the choices only become less clear, less democratic, and less efficient.
The problem is that economists (and those who listen to them) became over-confident in their preferred models of the moment: markets are efficient, financial innovation transfers risk to those best able to bear it, self-regulation works best, and government intervention is ineffective and harmful.
And during the launch of the new program, one US official cited Copenhagen Consensus research to show that fortification is “one of the most efficient investments in Haiti’s development.”
If Europe were to take such steps, it would look not only like the land of redistribution, but also like a place where the environment is taken care of, energy distribution is efficient, and talent is highly rewarded.
The US has a rather low savings rate; but it has significant opportunities for investment, owing to its efficient entrepreneurs and vibrant technology sector.
Efficient paths from training and education programs to the world of work must be built, so that skills can be matched to market demand.
The most efficient way to overcome these costly electricity imbalances would be through a common energy market.
Bangladeshis – and people everywhere – deserve the most efficient allocation of scarce development resources that can be achieved.
The authorities are aware of these issues and have announced plans for a new, “people-oriented” urbanization model that would be more efficient, inclusive, and environmentally sustainable.
By strengthening farmers’ property rights, and restricting local governments’ power to expropriate land for urban growth, cities would become more compact and efficient, especially in terms of energy use.
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