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The case for returning fiscal responsibility to national authorities is also strong – and not only because centralized fiscal authority has proved to be so inefficient.
And, according to HSBC, the GBA is the least burdened by inefficient state-owned enterprises and excess capacity.
And that aid has consistently been delivered in the same inefficient ways, even as the US Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) and others have repeatedly highlighted enormous amounts of waste, fraud, and abuse.
The search is on to discover and control for characteristics of the human mind that could produce distorting, unproductive, or inefficient results.
As a result, China’s economy is dominated by resource-hungry and inefficient polluters, such as coal and mineral mines, textile and paper mills, iron and steel makers, petrochemical factories, and building material producers.
The true explanation is that, in the past few years, there has formed in Russia a critical mass of well-managed, market-oriented enterprises capable of normal production, with resources released from the inefficient Soviet-era public sector.
He is likely to surf on the current wave of economic growth, using broad consensus about the need for reform to clean up the state administration, and liberalize a tax regime which, though grossly inefficient, is heavy-handed when it goes after a company.
Forget about subsidizing inefficient technologies or making fossil fuels too expensive to use.
Lukashenko used the IMF money to keep his state-dominated, inefficient, and subsidy-dependent economy afloat through the 2010 elections.
As we recently argued, the key will be to maintain an annual growth rate of roughly 6.5%, while pursuing a multifaceted short-term stabilization plan that aims to stimulate job creation to offset the losses from restructuring inefficient industries and eliminating excess capacity.
Of course, China does have huge firms, but they are inefficient state-owned behemoths that owe their size and profitability to their legal monopolies and government subsidies.
But the organization was weak and inefficient, largely owing to the United States’ refusal to ratify its charter.
Our collective belief that markets are efficient helped make them wildly inefficient.
Man-made environmental change is caused by reckless land use, overgrazing, depletion and contamination of surface freshwater resources, overuse of groundwater, degradation of coastal ecosystems, inefficient or environmentally unsustainable irrigation practices, waste mismanagement, and the destruction of natural habitats.
Countries should ease up on their current, inefficient climate policies and instead increase spending on green R&D.
For many people, EU decision-making is opaque, inefficient, and removed from democratic control.
While a Brazilian orange admitted for sale in Portugal can be sold throughout the EU, a Brazilian engineer or accountant licensed in Portugal must fulfill separate licensing requirements to work elsewhere in the EU, hampering much-needed labor mobility by forcing non-European workers to endure costly and inefficient bureaucratic procedures.
There is also the potential for reforming inefficient approaches to food and agriculture, particularly in Europe.
The observation that structural degradation is a reflection of decreasing species population resonates in the field of evolution, because natural selection becomes more inefficient as the population gets smaller.
Other countries have similar programs that are sold as pro-equality but are inefficient or even undermine their stated goal.
And these losses are massively skewed in ways that are grossly inefficient, in addition to being completely unfair.
It may also prove to be a winning political formula for a population fed-up with a bloated and inefficient state machine.
They were punished for having done the right thing and for having done it alone, which made them look like dangerously naive idealists at best, and like inefficient bureaucrats at worst.
Policies that do not abide by some variant of this utilitarian principle (as proposed by, say, John Rawls or Amartya Sen) are bound to be inefficient or unfair.
Lant Pritchett of the Harvard Kennedy School has coined a new name for India: a “flailing state” – a state where the government’s extremely competent upper echelons are unable to control its inefficient lower levels, resulting in poor performance.
Most of these subsidies should be scrapped; the energy industry does not need more state aid to burn fossil fuels (and, in developing and emerging economies, subsidies are a grossly inefficient and probably unnecessary way to help the poor).
For the last few decades the state subsidised inefficient production and covered up its inability to collect taxes and excessive social promises with the revenues secured by Russia's oil and gas exports.
In particular, wouldn’t a single global central bank and a world currency make more sense than our confusing, inefficient, and outdated assemblage of national monetary policies and currencies?
The current system is both risky and inefficient.
This surplus, however, has not come from reduced spending, but from a set of inefficient and distortionary taxes, mostly on financial transactions.
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