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Despite many stresses and strains, India has a remained a freewheeling multi-party democracy – corrupt and inefficient, perhaps, but nonetheless flourishing.
It’s not very complicated: We must end wasteful subsidies for both fossil fuels and inefficient solar and wind.
This would still be much cheaper than the Paris agreement, which requires the rollout of expensive, inefficient energy.
Indeed, continued real-wage growth is forcing inefficient industries that relied solely on cheap labor out of the market, while bolstering the competitiveness of producers that appeal to the evolving tastes of China’s increasingly potent consumers.
At the same time, China is reforming its inefficient approval-based system of initial public offerings to one based on registrations.
In India, this takes the form of loan waivers for distressed farmers (which weaken the banks); price controls for water, electricity, and public transportation (which wreck government budgets and undermine the prospect of long-term investment in those areas); and more subsidized food in the corrupt and inefficient public distribution system.
It is not just that global supplies of resources are increasingly scarce, but also that supplies are increasingly falling into inefficient hands.
Rather, capital-structure and maturity mismatches – a result of the rapid and uneven buildup of debt in the last five years – have distorted the allocation of resources, leading to non-performing, idle, and inefficient assets, thereby amplifying the financial system’s hidden flaws and increasing risk.
The answer lies in the unprecedented challenges that China faces, including corruption, pollution, unsustainable local debts, ghost towns, shadow banks, inefficient state-owned enterprises (SOEs), and excessive government control over the economy.
Dismantling these bloated and inefficient firms would thus amount to political suicide.
The separation of powers in government is too inefficient, so the presidency must dominate all other branches.
Outdated and inefficient border procedures and inadequate infrastructure often mean high transaction costs, long delays, opportunities for corruption, and an additional 10-15% in the cost of getting goods to market – even more in landlocked countries.
The current patchwork of 28 separate asylum systems does not work: it is expensive, inefficient, and produces wildly inconsistent results in determining who qualifies for asylum.
This vast "black economy" makes VAT inefficient in most developing countries.
Most economists would agree that America’s current tax structure is inefficient and unfair.
State-owned enterprises are almost always inefficient, and often hoard labor.
The exact form of the stimulus will likely be inefficient and regressive: big tax cuts for the rich will exacerbate the inequality that helped fuel Trump’s success.
In reality, the talks collapsed because nobody – not Europe, not the United States, China, India, or the other main developing countries – was willing to take the political short-term hit by offending inefficient farmers and coddled domestic industries in order to create greater long-term benefits for virtually everyone.
It is interesting to contrast global skepticism about free trade with support for expensive, inefficient methods to combat global warming.
The US imposes a tariff of more than 50 cents per gallon on sugar-based ethanol from Brazil, but subsidizes inefficient corn-based American ethanol heavily – indeed , it requires more than a gallon of gasoline to fertilize, harvest, transport, process, and distill corn to yield one gallon of ethanol.
First, free-market health care is usually inequitable and inefficient.
A right-wing victory now, they warn, would lead to a disaster: an inefficient, dangerously incoherent government failing within a year, leaving the economy in shreds.
As a result, the scientific workforce is beginning to resemble a pyramid scheme: unfair, inefficient, and unsustainable.
State-owned health insurance companies, state guaranteed retirement, etc. are not only insecure and inefficient; they are also contrary to the idea of political reform.
Those of us with a long history in the EU will understand the difficulties of this better than most, and for some West African countries, rolling back costly and inefficient but politically popular subsidies will be difficult.
The tech giants, meanwhile, argue that if they could just move faster into inefficient production and distribution areas, not least mobile payments, productivity growth would accelerate.
For starters, incentives that reward companies for remaining small, inefficient, and informal should be removed.
Such differences are questionable not only in terms of fairness; they are also economically inefficient, because they tend to limit labor mobility across firms and sectors.
The African energy market is inefficient and unfair.
But they are wrong about our priorities, and they are advocating an inefficient remedy.
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