Maximizing
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Agronomical research and technical innovations are crucial to
maximizing
water efficiency in this sector, and they must be taken much further.
As the Brexit vote shows, Europe’s political class greatly underestimated the strains caused by free mobility across borders – a shibboleth of the failed neoliberal project of
maximizing
market-based resource allocation.
But it makes far more sense to use the force of markets – the power of incentives – than to rely on goodwill, especially when it comes to oil companies that regard their sole objective as
maximizing
profits, regardless of the cost to others.
In order to shift firms’ emphasis from minimizing initial costs to
maximizing
total value, while ensuring the protection of people’s health and well-being, governments should change their tendering processes by implementing requirements for circularity, thereby helping to drive demand for new solutions.
Maximizing
public revenue is not always consistent with the goal of social and economic stability.
In order to improve its prospects, South Korea must pursue economic reform and restructuring, with an emphasis on
maximizing
its human-capital resources – especially women.
In South Korea, Japan, and elsewhere, developing and
maximizing
women’s potential will require comprehensive education and labor-market reforms, as well as structural change, particularly on the services side of the economy.
A pro-business agenda aims at
maximizing
the profits of existing firms; a pro-market agenda, by contrast, seeks to encourage the best business conditions for everyone.
For the true believers in this creed, the suggestion that the manager of a business should strive for anything except
maximizing
value for shareholders is heresy.
Virtually all politicians of both major political parties have long supported them, taking the goal of
maximizing
homeownership as self-evident.
If this means that the debt-to-GDP ratio will be higher than 120% in 2020, we devise smart ways to rationalize, re-profile, or restructure the debt – keeping in mind the aim of
maximizing
the effective present value that will be returned to Greece’s creditors.
Now that all of the main oil producers are unequivocally committed to
maximizing
production, regardless of the impact prices, oil will continue to trade just like any other commodity (for example, iron ore) that is in oversupply in a competitive market.
Due to the lack of public oversight on government budgeting, China’s political system is especially biased to favor big physical projects, and, through taxation and state ownership, the government maintains almost full control over much national income and wealth,
maximizing
the impact of this bias.
Central banks, in an effort to keep capital away and hold down the exchange rate, risk becoming locked into a cycle of competitive easing aimed at
maximizing
their countries’ share of scarce existing world demand.
Similarly, following the Canterbury earthquakes of 2010 and 2011, New Zealand developed the Greater Christchurch Urban Development Strategy, aimed at
maximizing
the efficiency, livability, and sustainability of cities.
But this approach would not only leave German taxpayers on the hook; it would also create perverse incentives in the entire European banking system,
maximizing
instability.
The shareholders of the companies that buy will lose roughly $300 billion in market value, as markets interpret the acquisition as a signal that managers are exuberant and uncontrolled empire-builders rather than flinty-eyed trustees
maximizing
payouts to investors.
The GNH index and policy tools have helped to turn the notion of measuring and
maximizing
human well-being into an operational concept.
India’s economic future lies in
maximizing
its private sector’s dynamism, which demands an acceleration of institutional reform, including privatization at both the national and state level.
This moment holds potential: spending cuts could be transformed into an opportunity to coordinate and integrate Europe’s defense industry, thus
maximizing
overall efficiency.
Managers’ increased focus on
maximizing
shareholder value won many adherents when the idea was introduced in the 1980’s: the impersonal discipline of financial markets would force companies to become more productive and innovative.
Moreover, because
maximizing
shareholder value is a poor incentive for workers and middle managers, companies’ boards have increasingly centralized power around chief executives, thereby encouraging a “heroic” form of leadership that is detached from the rest of the enterprise.
Like any investor, Chinese actors in Africa focus on
maximizing
returns – and that means seeking fast-growing economies.
In order to win public support for reforms, thereby
maximizing
the chances of success, the government must offer clear, accessible explanations of its goals.
When I first heard of Bhutan’s goal of
maximizing
its people’s happiness, I wondered if it really meant anything in practice, or was just another political slogan.
In the interim, all of the country’s economic regulation was examined from the standpoint of
maximizing
competition, and a national pro-reform consensus was forged.
The answer lies in recognizing that state capitalism is not about efficient allocation of economic resources, but about
maximizing
political control over society and the economy.
Instead, developing countries, particularly those in the earlier stages of economic development, must find new external markets for their goods, by
maximizing
trade opportunities with their counterparts in the developing world, many of which have considerable purchasing power.
Second, drug development is geared toward
maximizing
profit, not social benefit, which skews efforts directed at the creation of medicines that are essential to human welfare.
Maximizing
the potential of vaccines to fight antimicrobial resistance thus requires the wider application of existing vaccines in humans and animals.
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