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Puerto Rico is home to one of the most efficient and inexpensive tools available in the fight against climate change: rainforests.
Banning the takeover, on the other hand, would mean less efficient management of the ports, since the Dubai-based company is considered a better manager than the current one.
And the execution of a private law system is much more efficient than the execution by bureaucracy.
But market fundamentalism also inspired dangerous intellectual fallacies: that financial markets are always rational and efficient; that central banks must simply target inflation and not concern themselves with financial stability and unemployment; that the only legitimate role of fiscal policy is to balance budgets, not stabilize economic growth.
To advance these goals, the Education Commission proposes a financing compact whereby low- and middle-income countries would agree to increase domestic public expenditure on education from an average of about 4% of GDP today to 5.8% of GDP by 2030, while implementing reforms that ensure the efficient use of resources.
In exchange, the international community would increase its financing over this period, from about $16 billion per year to some $90 billion, as well as provide coordination mechanisms to ensure the most efficient use of funds.
Even in the unlikely event that colonization encountered no political resistance, it would not lead to a very efficient banking system.
The proper, efficient use of the expected influx of international funds demands a powerful political commitment from government at the highest level.
Yet, when measured by the light they generate, candles are almost 100 times less efficient than incandescent light bulbs, and more than 300 times less efficient than fluorescent lights.
When companies go bankrupt, a debt-equity swap is a fair and efficient solution.
While restrictions on lending may be useful, they are not enough to bring about an efficient and stable housing system.
Moreover, it turned out that US-style capitalism was neither efficient nor stable.
But it is difficult to see how the labor market can be efficient if employers are making hiring decisions on the basis of political favoritism rather than merit.
Railways reorganized their operations to make more efficient use of both rolling stock and workers.
Only if migrants received only wages could efficient self-regulation in migration be expected.
Companies also need educated, hard-working, ethical employees and reliable, efficient suppliers.
If products such as glyphosate and 2,4-D were to become unavailable, farmers would be forced to resort to other methods to control weeds – none of them as efficient.
But high- and low-skill migrants alike contribute to the efficient division of labor in their host countries, because cultural differences make it harder for them to compete with locals.
The renminbi’s continued internationalization, not to mention further progress on critical financial reforms, would contribute to the creation of a more stable and efficient global reserve system.
Just as free trade provides the lowest-cost goods and services, benefiting both consumers and the most efficient producers, global academic competition is making free movement of people and ideas, on the basis of merit, more and more the norm, with enormously positive consequences for individuals, universities, and countries.
Forests, for example, are completely efficient systems, with species’ lifecycles occurring in perfect harmony with the seasons.
Just as ecosystems reuse everything in an efficient and purposeful cycle, a “circular” economic system would ensure that products were designed to be part of a value network, within which the reuse and refurbishment of products, components, and materials would ensure the continual re-exploitation of resources.
What is clear is that, by allowing a greater proportion of an economy’s wealth to be channeled toward investment and other productive economic activities, a more efficient financial-services industry boosts economic growth.
Ahead of US Senate hearings last November, former Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke wrote a letter to senators saying that Bitcoin may “hold long-term promise, particularly if the innovations promote a faster, more secure, and more efficient payment system.”
The ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has dedicated itself to creating a more efficient, services-driven economy, subject to the market and the rule of law.
According to North, institutional under-capacity is a short-term allocative problem, or sunk cost, for which the state can compensate with greater adaptive efficiency, or better mechanisms for bringing about the exit of less efficient institutions.
That, as North would put it, may not be the most efficient way to get to the other side.
Efficient production requires a division of labor among those who know about technology, marketing, finance, logistics, human-resource management, contracts, regulations, distribution, customer service, and much else.
With higher aggregate demand and more efficient use of existing human capital and other resources, economies could achieve a significant boost in medium-term growth, even without productivity gains.
But, unfortunately, the phenotypic strategy is neither efficient nor intellectually satisfying.
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