Sentences with phrase «in economic inefficiencies»

Just as millennials are spearheading a reduction in economic inefficiencies — or «friction,» as Rieder often refers to it — Waze is also helping users avoid obstacles.

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«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.»

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.

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.

... In short, the results indicate that the EU's domestic electricity production systems have preserved fossil fuel generation, and include several economic inefficiencies and inefficiencies in resource allocation.&raquIn short, the results indicate that the EU's domestic electricity production systems have preserved fossil fuel generation, and include several economic inefficiencies and inefficiencies in resource allocation.&raquin resource allocation.»

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.