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The right question is how to develop innovative and efficient government programs to provide public goods and services that neither the marketplace nor the nonprofit sector can deliver on its own.
After the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, the Obama administration teamed up with the X-Prize Foundation to offer a $1.4 million prize to the group that produced the most efficient oil-recovery solution.
The winning approach, from Elastec American Marine, was three times as efficient as the industry’s previous best rate.
The failure of prices to conform to their market value makes private operation, even if efficient, socially wasteful.
So the bicycle manufacturer supplemented his rations through buying semifinished steel products and melting them down - hardly an efficient way to convert iron ore and coal into bicycles.
Digital platforms make markets more transparent and efficient, which is exactly the kind of disruption that today’s labor markets need.
Nevertheless, Europeans generally agree that their societies produce the best lifestyles, even if their economies are less efficient than America’s in a Darwinian sense.
For example, automation will continue to make manufacturing more efficient and less costly, but it will also ensure that economic growth generates fewer jobs than in the past.
A perfect storm is forming in the foreign exchange markets that threatens to catapult the euro to levels that will make even the euro-zone’s most efficient exporter—Germany—unable to compete in world markets.
At the same time, business owners seek illicit relationships with local officials to gain protection, privileges (such as contracts), loans, a blind eye to safety standards, and regulatory exemptions – activities that generate financial risks and undermine competition by raising entry barriers for more efficient enterprises.
For example, carmakers, which employ hundreds of thousands of people across the region, are rapidly deploying robots that are more efficient and precise than humans.
The reasoning is roughly as follows: as labor-saving technologies improve, some workers lose their jobs in the short run, but production becomes more efficient.
They can do so in a variety of ways, such as by investing in education, funding scientific and technological research, and building efficient infrastructure.
Government needs a free and professional media to keep it honest and efficient, to serve as both mirror and scalpel.
In the public sector, this mechanism is either non-existent or significantly different and less efficient.
Fish are more efficient than pork and beef, because they require fewer inputs to yield the same amount of protein.
Many experts advocate raising the official retirement age as an efficient tool, because it would-in theory, at least-increase the pool of contributors while shrinking the pool of benefit recipients.
It is also more efficient to keep tax rates stable over time, and thus to finance with debt temporary large spending needs such as military buildups during war (or to prevent war), while reversing the debt buildup thereafter.
Such debt finance is both equitable and efficient.
Musharraf defends the military acquisitions, claiming that they are economically efficient, and angrily dismisses criticism as the ranting of unpatriotic Pakistani pseudo-intellectuals.
But, whether any particular system is efficient in avoiding moral hazard is a matter of practice, rather than of theory.
The test of any alternative financial system depends ultimately on whether it is – or can be – more efficient, ethical, stable, and adaptable than the prevailing system.
Practice shows that local levels of government provide the most efficient water management, even if regulations must necessarily be national in scope.
Despite the political and administrative centralization of most of the countries represented at the Forum, there was widespread agreement that the most efficient water systems are managed as close as possible to the resource and its users.
Despite these risks, which dwarf those faced by the telecoms industry, Africa’s smallholders remain as efficient as their larger counterparts – a testament to their tenacity and resilience.
Chinese policymakers should view the shadow-banking scare as a market-driven opportunity to transform the banking system into an efficient, balanced, inclusive, and productive engine of growth.
QE is supposed to work via “portfolio balance effects,” which implies that markets are not fully efficient: purchases of longer-term bonds affect financial conditions by changing the types and quantity of financial assets the public holds.
In broad and efficient markets, that exchange does not mean much.
They enjoy relative economic prosperity, and their political institutions are growing more effective and efficient.
Highly efficient buildings often can be easily heated with locally produced renewable electricity and supplied with hot water from solar collectors.
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