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But increasing energy access is not only about supplying better, more efficient cooking stoves or light bulbs.
Not only in banking, but in other sectors as well – with automakers at the forefront – massive subsidies are keeping inefficient incumbents in place, limiting the growth of efficient firms or, perhaps even worse, preventing market entry by new firms.
Is it true at least to say that more democracy would have made Singapore a less efficient, prosperous, and peaceful society?
Singapore may be efficient, and relatively free of corruption; but it is also a rather sterile place, with little room for intellectual or artistic achievement.
At 19% of GDP, national savings rates are very low – indeed, much lower than in Asia – and labor legislation is antiquated, discouraging efficient use of human capital, while productivity growth is meager.
I have applied this philosophy successfully for years in Sierra Leone, in order to make our government more efficient and effective.
One could argue that this system facilitates more efficient governance, and thus could potentially save Italy from its debilitating gridlock.
That provides an incentive to retrofitting companies, while competition for customers, rather than for subsidies, will encourage the various providers to be efficient.
Worse, Levy finds that surviving firms do not create more jobs, while new firms that do create jobs are often less efficient than those they are replacing.
There is an element of black magic about setting up public-private partnerships and suddenly everything is both cheaper and more efficient.
Brazilians still have a long way to go to eliminate corruption, reform or rescind populist policies, and create efficient and responsible state institutions.
But the legacy is a more efficient stock of capital equipment.
These are efficient responses to changes in real wages.
We need to work far harder to make green energy cheaper and more efficient than fossil fuels, so we can continue to lift millions from poverty without emitting carbon dioxide.
But this “hardware” is inefficient without the “software” needed to manage it – namely, as Coase suggested, an efficient property-rights infrastructure (the laws, procedures, and administrative capacity needed to support efficient, fair, and innovative markets).
Neither capitalism nor socialism has fully revealed how to achieve efficient GDP growth, an inclusive society, and ecological sustainability simultaneously.
Imagine that, the next day, Krenz’s travel laws had taken effect in an orderly and efficient German way.
Though their leaders certainly have work to do – for example, building more efficient and credible institutions – the EU remains a source of inspiration for others, from the refugees fleeing war and misery to the Chinese, who have constructed European-style cities.
In that sense, productivity rose in the tradable sector, although structural shifts in the global economy were surely as important as employees becoming more efficient at doing the same things.
First, governments should help farmers (especially family farmers) become more efficient.
The most efficient way for Xi to secure the PLA’s loyalty is to replace its top generals – most of whom were promoted by previous presidents – with his own supporters.
The Coming Global Energy RevolutionPARIS – Humanity’s future, to say nothing of its prosperity, will depend on how the world tackles two central energy challenges: securing reliable supplies of affordable energy, and switching to efficient low-carbon energy.
More efficient technologies normally take many years to spread through the energy sector.
So they should weigh tax breaks that might entice employers to keep migrant workers on the payrolls, as this would probably be a much more efficient way to support these poor countries.
And the US needs a sustainable, efficient labor-migration policy to replace its current approach, which fuels illegal immigration.
Deploying less efficient, more expensive alternative-energy sources will hurt businesses and consumers, not help them.
In order for the whole planet to make a sustainable shift away from fossil fuels, we need to make low-carbon energy both cheaper and more efficient.
But with the right legal framework in place, they could become far more efficient and durable.
The fifth lesson is that not all innovation leads to a more efficient and productive economy – let alone a better society.
Instead, innovation was directed at perfecting the exploitation of those who are less educated, and at circumventing the regulations and accounting standards that were designed to make markets more efficient and stable.
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