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Napolitano’s move was crucial, filling Italy’s need to replace the inefficient and scandal-ridden Silvio Berlusconi, in whom fellow leaders and global markets had lost all confidence, with an internationally respected figure.
One feature of Italy’s turbulent politics remains consistent: the control exercised by entrenched interests, and the dominance of a bloated and inefficient bureaucracy.
Why?Airbus has looked ahead, invested, and is bringing on a new Jumbo jet that will make Boeing’s existing products look outdated and inefficient.
In the case of the environment, command-and-control regulation is inefficient, discourages innovation, and can have unintended consequences (like Europe’s growing reliance on coal).
The US turned against them not because they were autocrats, but because they were inefficient autocrats.
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.
Despite officials’ seeming desire to reduce income inequality, China’s government is aggravating it, by – among other things – subsidizing producers, favoring capital-intensive industries, and maintaining a highly inefficient financial sector.
Moreover, Mexico will also phase out old, inefficient light bulbs by 2014.
And it has just retired 850,000 inefficient household refrigerators in favor of modern, energy-efficient models, with millions more earmarked over the coming years.
In most countries, such assessments are still rare and haphazard: Parliaments often enact policies without knowing whether they are worth the money, and it may take a very long time before ineffective or inefficient policies are terminated.
Bailing out inefficient automobile companies like General Motors only slows down the rate of progress.
Equivalent advice today would be that governments the world over are doing all the wrong things in bailing out top-heavy banks, subsidizing inefficient businesses, and putting obstacles in the way of rational workers spending more time with their families or taking lower-paid jobs.
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).
IVF is inefficient so extra embryos are produced in case they are needed.
The fundamental problem is that green-energy technologies are still very inefficient and expensive compared to fossil fuels.
In the meantime, the public should be cautious of politicians’ claims that deploying today’s inefficient, expensive technology will result in windfall benefits at no cost.
The sterling balances proved to be the starting point of vast and inefficient state planning regimes that did long-term harm to growth prospects in all the countries that took this course.
The sort of shaky short-term political coalitions that rule Japan nowadays prefer to buy time through so-called public stimulus, or to preserve inefficient companies with subsidies.
Think of the graduates as holding a master’s degree in brutal (and brutally inefficient) administration.
Building more wind and solar generating capacity with subsidies means societies end up paying three times for power – once for the power, once for subsidies to inefficient renewables, and once more to subsidize our now-inefficient fossil fuels.
Better investment planning can also help to avoid locking infrastructure into inefficient and less “green” technologies.
The superficial explanation of the discrepancy between GDP growth and job gains attributes the gap to the restructuring of inefficient state-owned enterprises (SOEs), which caused public-sector employment to plummet, from 112.6 million to 67 million, from 1995 to 2004.
In fact, however, they provide an invaluable check on sloppy and inefficient providers of public services.
The sad truth is that he may well be right: the national police (PNC) are notoriously corrupt, understaffed and inefficient, as much a part of the problem as the drug gangs themselves.
Already weak and inefficient, prone to corruption, politicisation, lack of co-ordination between departments, and outright intimidation of its officials, judicial systems across the isthmus have been an easy target for organised crime.
South Africa’s cities are still racially fragmented and spatially inefficient.
Solar and wind power are still too expensive and inefficient to replace our reliance on fossil fuels.
That’s hugely expensive and inefficient.
The plummeting cost of LED light bulbs – also down more than 90% in the last ten years –reflects the effect of outright bans on inefficient incandescent bulbs, public procurement policies, and, in India, the public sector’s role as a bulk buyer and low-cost distributor.
In other words, EU leaders began to complicate fiscal governance, ultimately creating an inefficient, inescapable labyrinth of regulation and bureaucracy.
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