Sentences with phrase «economic inefficiencies of»

«This form of government investment will hardly eradicate or reduce rural poverty, because of poor infrastructure and the severe economic inefficiencies of most agrarian settlements — which often result in high household - level turnover and giving - up rates of newly settled farmers following the local liquidation of natural forest resource capital.»

That would avoid the economic inefficiency of subsidies — and the tax or deficit burden — while producing an optimal reduction curve without adding an artificial economic penalty for drivers.

Not exact matches

Another side of growing inequality reveals shrinking opportunities and squandered potential, economic inefficiencies and twisted incentives.

An answer to both question could go like this: It is sometimes fair to tax one group higher than another because we have created an economy where there is an incredible potential for group A to accumulate drastically more amounts of economic wealth than group B, even though the labor of group B is more intrinsically valuable than group A. Given this inefficiency, it is just to redistribute asymmetrically because the initial distribution was flawed.

«Instead of reducing the quality of our products, which is how most of the market is coping with economic change, we look more to how we can improve our delivery and production costs and take inefficiencies out of our operations.»

The study aims, in part, to address the fact that the U.S. spends about 40 percent more on health care per capita than the next highest - spending country in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), a group of 35 major nations — a figure that leads many to wonder whether there are significant inefficiencies in U.S. health care spending.

In economic theory there's a notion called deadweight loss, or market inefficiency, which impacts a consumer when the value of an item's utility is less than the price paid for it.

It addresses the economic and social costs of «business as usual» growth in Asia and the Pacific, discusses unexplored opportunities for increasing sustainability and ecological inefficiencies, and analyse the role of the various actors.

WRI finds that better energy efficiency in buildings can unlock a «triple win» of economic, environmental and social benefits for cities, and taking action now can avoid locking in decades of inefficiency.

Simms is at his best highlighting the inefficiencies and idiosyncrasies of our demonstrably flawed and unsustainable economic models, as well as the potential solutions being pioneered by green businesses and policymakers.

Emissions trading will only be viable in China's electricity if its helps to solve some of the sector's existing challenges — inefficiency in overall generation, running deficits of coal generators, system reliability — while contributing to balanced economic development objectives.

Firms confront a number of client challenges: (1) dissatisfaction and failure to address it; (2) insufficient knowledge of the client's business; (3) high, unpredictable cost; (4) inefficiency and an economic model that «applies brute force» (read: lots of high - priced lawyers billing loads of hours) accompanied by a failure to assess appropriate value to task / cases from the client perspective; (5) failure to deploy technology to streamline operations and provide enterprise solutions; (6) an absence of process and project management; (7) a transactional approach to client matters rather than one that provides enterprise solutions; and (8) poor customer service.

When a single economic activity implicates more than one type of right and each type is administered by a separate collective, the multiplicity of licences required can lead to inefficiency....

Thousands lost their savings in the collapse of shady banks, part of a broader economic system plagued by insider dealing, mismanagement and inefficiency.

Indeed, Kimberly A. Moore — a judge on the Federal Circuit court responsible for all patent appeals — once wrote that pervasive venue shopping in patent cases represents a failure of «the promise of equal, consistent and uniform application of justice,» besides creating «economic inefficiency in the legal system.»

If real estate partnerships invest in marginal projects because a «special subsidy» makes them worthwhile, that's a sign of economic inefficiency, she argues.