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As a policy, this is inequitable, inefficient, and unlikely to lower emissions at a pace that is sufficient to meet the conditions of the global climate-change agreement expected to be reached in Paris in December.
Lacking competition, inefficient bureaucracies focus more on maintaining jobs than on serving putative customers.
Indeed, Chinese government sources estimate that an efficient building is five to six times cheaper than an inefficient building to heat, cool, and light.
Of course, most French people would ultimately benefit from doing away with this inefficient web of big and small privileges, but most voters, depressed by poor economic prospects and unnerved by high unemployment, are simply unwilling to take the risk.
The key is to establish a level playing field guided by market rules, reduce government intervention in the economy, and stop protecting inefficient businesses.
The UK would pay at least $8 billion annually in subsidies to support this inherently inefficient technology.
European Union countries and supranational institutions took decisions that helped to address “energy islands” (isolated and inefficient energy markets), while increasing the role of renewables in energy provision.
But, while his government’s policies helped to put Russia on the path to recovery, public- and private-sector entities worldwide also contributed, devoting time, energy, and capital to helping Russia to discard inefficient Soviet-era structures and pursue a society based on democratic principles, the rule of law, and a market economy.
Europeans may be confused, inefficient, and slow to take decisions, but democracy still constitutes a wall of stability against economic and other uncertainties.
But, though it does represent progress from 2012, when popular opposition in South Korea to the idea of military cooperation with Japan caused a similar agreement to collapse, the latest effort is inefficient, at best.
But a recent study commissioned by The Economistfound that a carbon tax would increase both government revenue and economic output – primarily by replacing existing, inefficient energy subsidies.
Increasingly, the highly political, woefully inefficient, self-serving, and often corrupt UN sees itself not only as the world's peacekeeper but also as the arbiter of international health, environmental, and human rights issues.
Economists can help by testing which international rules and institutions are needed to reform an inefficient and often inhumane system.
According to the Institute of Medicine, the US currently wastes more than $750 billion per year on unnecessary or inefficient health-care services, excessive administrative costs, high prices, medical fraud, and missed opportunities for prevention.
Because the state uses its apparatus to deter competition – both informally, through arbitrary enforcement of property rights, and formally, through trade restrictions – crony capitalism is not only unjust, but also inefficient.
This sort of misalignment is just as inefficient for companies as it is for investors.
When care is available, it is often inefficient or of substandard quality.
That is why barter economies are so inefficient – and thus obsolete.
By contrast, Alberto Alesina and Silvia Ardagna argue that in an economy with a large and inefficient government, debt-stabilization measures directed at reducing the size of government can actually be expansionary.
Many services remain inefficient, because they are either in the domain of an archaic public administration or enjoy monopoly rents created by regulatory barriers.
With the inflow of cheap money, public spending rises, and politicians thrive on distributing subsidies and preserving inefficient jobs to broaden their electoral appeal.
Indeed, sometimes it leads to results that are inefficient, “nasty,” or both.
Similarly, inefficient state banks – far inferior to private banks even in Kazakhstan or Ukraine – dominate the banking system.
In fact, while states can be inefficient and prone to inflationary temptations, private banking systems can also allocate capital badly, sustaining credit cycles that leave behind profound economic malaise.
The goal of squeezing as much money as possible out of time makes a great deal of sense in poor countries, where inefficient use of time can lead to starvation.
In other words, the US government was designed to be inefficient, in order to ensure that it could not easily threaten the liberty of its citizens.
Certainly, merely returning to big government will not resolve anything, because it is inefficient and generates the opposite but equivalent imbalance.
Measures such as carbon taxes and fees, emissions-trading programs and other pricing mechanisms, and removal of inefficient subsidies can give businesses and households the certainty and predictability they need to make long-term investments in climate-smart development.
To be sure, governance that is effective, legitimate, and responsive provides untold benefits, especially when compared to the alternative: inefficient governance, cronyism, and corruption.
This family-oriented, or “tribal,” business culture is the result of a long history of inefficient commercial judicial systems, arbitrary nationalization programs, and a lack of effective corporate governance.
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