Up and down the country there are many good examples of hospitals, schools, roads, housing and administrative services being successfully and efficiently delivered at less cost and with greater
efficiency than the public sector was able to do.
Not exact matches
The dreaded emphasis on profitability means that private
sector ventures have much more cause to pursue
efficiency and scale
than do non-profits or
public ventures.
However, investment in energy
efficiency R&D has typically been less
than 10 percent of the overall
public sector R&D budget in the countries of the International Energy Agency (IEA).
Today the GEF is one of the
public sector's largest funders for energy
efficiency in the world, with direct investments of US$ 850 million in more
than 90 developing and transition countries and an additional US$ 5.9 billion in cofinancing.