Sentences with phrase «allocate scarce resources»

In addition, the distribution of funds to other institutions and individuals within the native title system also affects the way in which NTRBs must allocate the scarce resources they do receive.

A basic principle of economics is to allocate scarce resources in an efficient way, that is to say in a way in which those given scarce resources are able to produce the maximum benefit for the whole society (maximisation of allocative efficiency).

... when those in the majority or those in power allocate scarce resources (such as jobs, promotions, and mortgages) to people just like them, they effectively discriminate against those who are different from them.

With interest rates at low levels for many years now, IOLTA incomes remain historically low and law foundations across the country are considering how best to allocate scarce resources to organizations on the frontlines of access to justice.

It is important to uphold the integrity of the human rights system, properly allocate scarce resources and protect respondents from becoming engaged in needlessly drawn out, costly and inconvenient legal proceedings.

Whether providing greater legal representation in civil cases to the less fortunate serves a social good and, if so, how best to allocate scarce resources to accomplish that goal is certainly worthy of debate for a democratic society to undertake via the legislative process.

In all facets of life, people must make decisions about how to allocate scarce resources.

We helped to empower school communities to allocate scarce resources effectively and prioritize resources for our highest need students by OUSD and through the new Local Control Funding Formula.

In Roadmap for Early Childhood and K — 12 Data Linkages, DQC and the Early Childhood Data Collaborative (ECDC) recommend focusing on seven key areas to inform policy discussions and decisions; chart the progress of children, programs, and the state; strengthen and support the early childhood workforce; pinpoint best practices and areas of need; allocate scarce resources; and make other important education decisions every day.

Acting as consumers, producers, workers, savers, investors, and citizens, people respond to incentives in order to allocate their scarce resources in ways that provide the highest possible returns to them.

Our hope is to make this tool publicly available so that governments and agencies can track children's development globally over time, and make more informed decisions about how to allocate scarce resources to benefit the largest number of children.

Besides ensuring that all students have compassionate, effective teachers creating classroom conditions and opportunities for these things to occur, a school principal's primary responsibility is to allocate the scarce resources of time, space, and funding to maximize children's positive and productive experiences of school.

Financial pressures force schools to make difficult decisions about how to allocate scarce resources, and field trips are increasingly seen as an unnecessary frill.

On this surface level, the guidebook answers philanthropists» «how» questions — «How should I allocate my scarce resources to maximize impact?»

Under the electoral college it makes no sense for candidates to allocate scarce resources to states they either can not win or are certain to win, in which case, the size of their victory is irrelevant.

In addition, religious leaders often have the stature to advocate and negotiate with the most senior national decision - makers as countries make tough decisions on how to allocate scarce resources for health.

The study of supply and demand in markets and how they allocate scarce resources.

Business leaders with a mandate to create growth strategies, drive innovation, and allocate scarce resources across markets have told us they would value an objective perspective on future shifts in consumer demand around the world.

They're not going anywhere, and you shouldn't allocate your scarce resources against them.

Clinical triage officers deal with specific, limited and immediate problems of allocating scarce resources in lifesaving and medical care programs.

The reason is that economics is the study of allocating scarce resources.

Profit making, however, requires generating sales while appropriately allocating scarce resources.

The pricing mechanism allocates a scarce resource more efficiently and everybody wins.

While successful implementation of c - intake systems may improve appropriate utilization of services by allocating scarce resources to families most in need and minimizing competition for referrals among home visiting programs, these systems inherently introduce a «new person» or «additional step» to the recruitment, intake, and referral process, which may affect wait times, enrollment rates, as well as the determination of the match between the family and program.

It does not change the number of families that are served; it just provides a way of allocating scarce resources.

Not exact matches

When one begins to apply this procedure to the problems of allocating scarce food resources on a global scale, the size differential — and accordingly, the lack of control of the situation) the unpredictability of the results, and the resulting uncertainty of the final outcome — render inaccurate any comparisons of this with the medical situation.

The study of how individuals and societies choose to allocate scarce productive resources among competing alternative uses and to distribute the products from these uses among the members of the society.

The study of how scarce resources are allocated among competing uses.

This will ensure that scarce resources (labour, capital) are appropriately allocated, that business decisions are underpinned with strong underlying market and technology assumptions and that innovation is proactively applied.

If resources are no longer scarce, then there is no real need to allocate them.

National economies vary in the extent to which they rely on government directives (central planning) and signals from private markets (prices) to allocate scarce goods, services, and productive resources.

Obama's «Race to the Top» policy — the brainchild of Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, the former «CEO» of Chicago Public Schools — further codifies high - stakes testing by allocating scarce federal resources to those states most aggressively implementing these so - called accountability measures.

A district budgeting system that allocates actual dollars and provides principals with autonomy to make tradeoffs with scarce resources would help ensure that all schools get a fair shot at hiring talented teachers without forcing those with less expensive staffs to subsidize the others.

Even with scarce resources, these women have to find ways to, not only allocate such resources, but also ensure local food security.

As this article from the Fulton County Daily Report (10/17/07) describes, record droughts across Atlanta are leading to increased litigation over how scarce resources will be allocated.