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E Pluribus Unum for Europe’s Bank SupervisorsSTOCKHOLM – The European Union lacks an efficient supervisory framework for its vast financial industry, and the gap between what is needed and what exists is widening.
Urban areas may also need well-designed, sustainably built infrastructure to manage air and water, and integrated clean-energy systems and efficient public-transit options to help reduce pollution and carbon emissions.
Of course, government could always be more efficient, but after years of retrenchment, further rationalization is unlikely to deliver much.
Now that it has achieved the minimum efficient scale, new entrants cannot easily use competitive pressure to squeeze Uber’s margins.
Jihadism is a modern revolutionary ideology which holds that political violence is a theologically legitimate and tactically efficient way to effect socio-political change.
But, as government coffers are depleted, Arab countries – among the least efficient tax collectors in the world – are under growing pressure to pursue meaningful reform.
It is not efficient for a dentist and a lawyer, for example, to be the same person.
Competition inevitably tends to winnow out the less efficient firms and industries.
Things are completely different in the United States, where growth is on everyone’s agenda: the Federal Reserve is targeting an employment rate below 6.5%, and companies have used the recession as an opportunity to reorganize and become more efficient.
In other words, drugs like ketamine that quickly increase neuroplasticity might be particularly clinically efficient in combination with psychotherapeutic interventions.
Indeed, the proliferation of agricultural technology – from more efficient machinery to higher-yielding or more robust crop varieties – has the potential to narrow the productivity gap considerably, even if differences between climates and producers remain.
A more immediate challenge is ensuring that crops receive sufficient water, which requires building and maintaining efficient irrigation systems to stabilize yields and enable farmers to harvest an additional crop each year.
Fertilizer use has become significantly more efficient in recent years, a trend that will continue.
With small farmers unable to provide sufficient surpluses, agricultural production will become increasingly consolidated and mechanized, raising fossil-fuel consumption, which will have to be offset by the introduction of more efficient technologies.
Our food is safer and our diets are more diverse than ever before; production methods are becoming increasingly sustainable, clean, and efficient; and we are constantly becoming better at protecting biodiversity.
Venture capitalists would argue, correctly, that companies such as Google and eBay make life more efficient and convenient for everyone.
An efficient market works best at allocating resources even for mentoring services, but it works on more than just money.
In principle, efficient taxation of extractive industries should enable societies to maximize the benefits of nature’s bounty.
The implication that mourning should be fast and efficient is both disturbing and unnecessary.
Unless multipolarity is met with an efficient multilateral approach, problems like Syria’s civil war will become much more frequent – and more difficult to resolve.
But it is also fraught: when your bridges are collapsing, your school buildings are in disrepair, teachers are underpaid and have no incentive to be efficient, and much else needs money, it is not easy to decide where scarce money should be spent.
Although the lax monetary policy environment of recent years has proven to be relatively efficient in supporting growth, greater fiscal discipline will be needed if increased private investment is to be attracted.
Mr. Lavin obtained a remarkable 48.7% of the vote by campaigning as an efficient, issue-oriented politician that was not influenced by ideology or the petty political quarrels of the past.
Evidence from El Salvador would appear to bear this point out: the Salvadoran police are widely regarded as stronger and more efficient, but crime rates remain roughly on a par with Guatemala.
Unfettered markets are neither efficient nor stable.
But the criteria for judgment are clear: the new law must curb the practices that jeopardized the entire global economy, and reorient the financial system towards its proper tasks – managing risk, allocating capital, providing credit (especially to small- and medium-sized enterprises), and operating an efficient payments system.
Such government-insured underwriting distorts the market, giving big banks a competitive advantage, not necessarily because they are more efficient, but because they are “too big to fail.”
And what role should international financial institutions play to facilitate an efficient outcome?
Europe cannot build an efficient external policy without achieving a minimum of harmonization of member state policies regarding energy flows, interconnections, infrastructure, investment, and greater progress toward a single energy market.
Specifically, China hopes to create green and efficient urban clusters populated by increasingly educated workers who can consume in a sustainable manner.
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