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For the past ten years, the AMF, which is independent of the pharmaceutical industry, has published a highly regarded Access to Medicine Index, making it uniquely suited to quantify how various companies measure up in the fight against AMR.
We have to be able to quantify the benefits, risks, and costs of geoengineering, and compare them to the benefits, risks, and costs of our other options, so that we can make an informed decision.
Another approach for policymakers is to quantify the economic benefits of “ecosystem services” – the miraculous yet mundane things that nature provides like erosion control, water management, and purification.
Raising taxes on the beneficiaries of publicly funded research would be a challenge, given that the link between an original breakthrough and the wealth it created might be hard to quantify.
A compromise was found with the Stability and Growth Pact (SGP) and its provisions for adhering to the Maastricht criteria, which sought to quantify the fiscal soundness of sovereign states without actually interfering with their budget and tax policies.
Empirical models that try to quantify the impact of exchange rate changes suggest that without an aggressive monetary policy response, a 40 % euro appreciation would knock 2.5% off European growth.
Just because systemic effects are difficult to quantify does not mean that they are not real.
This will not be the unmeasured economy of yesteryear, but rather one where we quantify our efforts in other ways.
Efforts to make the rules more flexible are a welcome development, but shortcomings remain, particularly given that implementation risks make the macroeconomic effects of rule changes difficult to quantify.
But these interests are hard to quantify.
Reforms that made the tax system simpler, fairer, and less distortionary would have a beneficial effect on economic growth, although economists concede that the size of this effect is uncertain and impossible to quantify.
So the OECD examined myriad economic studies on air pollution to quantify what people’s health is worth to them.
Moreover, it is difficult to quantify the economy’s potential, given the paucity of reliable data; even basic indicators like population size and historical economic growth are shrouded in uncertainty.
And the permanent damage to thousands of species – and to the indigenous Amazonian Tagaeri and Taromenane tribes, which remain isolated from the world – would be too profound to quantify.
The key is for participants on both sides to be more explicit about the values and objectives they believe that society should pursue, and to quantify their assumptions about how dynamic performance will respond to particular incentives.
Our research sought to quantify the policy’s true impact.
The fact that we can quantify so many things means that sometimes we abandon the challenges that are harder to measure – such as corruption, food quality, or education.
Not only are many of the equivalent online activities harder to see or quantify, but things like Facebook encourage you to ‘friend’ everyone….Everyone is more popular, more intelligent, and better looking than average.
And detailed evaluations have been launched in Mexico and elsewhere to quantify the effect.
However, we do not have the data to quantify these benefits well.
Likewise, increasing women's political representation would cost little, whereas the benefits would often be welcome but difficult to quantify.
It is the Chinese who have endowed the term “financial center” with such weight and meaning by trying to dissect the functions of such cities and quantify every detail.
For example, while the benefits of many of the financial-engineering innovations of recent years are hard to prove, let alone quantify, the costs associated with them – both economic and social – are apparent and enormous.
The real issue, then, becomes perceived fairness in a particular society – a hard indicator to quantify.
The secrets of American success are transparent yet difficult to quantify.
These studies, for instance, verify and quantify what should be obvious: the loss of a job has a greater impact than can be accounted for just by the loss of income.
By contrast, it is difficult to quantify how good clinical scientists are.
Those are the quantifiable costs of ignoring an invisible generation of young people; the other costs, in terms of lost opportunities and ravaged, alienated lives, are impossible to quantify, but should be equally worrisome.
Part of the difficulty of contending with a crisis of confidence is that it is hard to quantify confidence in the first place.
It is impossible to quantify the economic losses inflicted on India during four decades in which entrepreneurs frittered away their time and energy applying for licenses rather than manufacturing products; paying bribes instead of hiring workers; wooing politicians instead of understanding consumers; and “getting things done” through bureaucrats rather than doing things for themselves.
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