The quest for market efficiency has also led to a frightening rise in complexity.

The euro was created partly in order to bolster internal market efficiency and prevent currency volatility.

Closing wide information gaps in the market for skills would also increase the efficiency of these investments.

Market incentives cause actors to operate or modify parts of the network in ways that maximize efficiency locally.

Excessive regulation that protects incumbent firms and other vested interests undermines market competitiveness and limits prospects for improved productivity and efficiency.

Such efficiency gains from increasing the extent of the market and promoting specialization should have produced rapid growth in Mexican productivity.

We viewed our job as describing how market economies work, when they fail, and how well designed policies can enhance efficiency.

That leads to the challenge of effective management of public assets management that promotes rather than impedes market efficiency and innovation.

This made generalization difficult. The main drivers of OFDI included system escape, the search for market and efficiency, and cost reduction.

Likewise, for both our countries, greater energy efficiency and security requires reliance upon market price signals, technology, innovation, and diversified energy sources.

In envisioning and carrying out business in this way while remaining fully inserted in the market, the experience of the EoC integrates the market and civil society, efficiency and solidarity, economy and communion.

The motives were largely similar across regions and were dependent on the types of OFDI (market seeking, efficiency seeking, resource seeking, asset augmenting).

Bulgaria launched a project entitled Development of a system of gender mainstreaming indicators for assessing the quality and efficiency of labour market measures .

As a group, neither behavioral economists, who think that market efficiency is a joke, nor progressive economists, who distrust free markets, predicted the crisis.

In particular, while SMEs can be found in all these types of OFDI, they tend to congregate in market seeking and efficiency seeking activities.

Foreign direct investment. Modern China has long been a magnet for global multinational corporations seeking both efficiency and a toehold in the world s most populous market.

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Formal standard setting through standards organizations has numerous benefits for consumers including increased innovation, multiple market participants, reduced production costs, and the efficiency effects of product interchangeability.

Market efficiency and market completion theories can help reassure major financial institutions top executives that they must in some subtle way be doing God s work, even when it looks at first sight as if some of their trading is simply speculation.

That allows us to have incredible efficiency and cost efficiency.

They point to the savings available from energy efficiency, and to the market opportunities generated by clean energy technologies as the processes of learning and discovery take hold.

Similarly, OFDI has increased the strategic assets and revenues and strengthened the market position of Russian enterprises, including efficiency gains from control of supply chains and access to natural resources.

Staffing efficiency is only one measure of the cost efficiency of procurement performance.

Spectral efficiency, spectrum efficiency or bandwidth efficiency refers to the information rate that can be transmitted over a given bandwidth in a specific communication system.

We had knowledge about the electromechanical efficiency and then we can calculate the aerodynamic efficiency.

They are worried that the reforms are market oriented, focusing both on increased efficiency and on reducing government involvement, so preventing those governments setting up programmes to support wider access to energy.

Transaction costs and efficiency

Turn now to efficiency.

Energy conservation and efficiency

Fourthly, efficiency is essential.

Equally, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Developemnt has placed energy efficiency center stage in much of its work on market led sectoral transformation programs across Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union.

Among economic factors, labour productivity based on low labour costs (for efficiency seeking investors) and high GDP growth rates (for market seeking investors) have been the most important determinants (Dasgupta and Ratha, 2000).

There is, of course, wide variation in the nature and motives of FDI from different regions of the developing world, with important examples of natural resource seeking, market seeking and efficiency seeking FDI.

The meeting had identified ways in which ICT could boost economic growth in developing countries through improvements in innovation and product development processes, efficiency and productivity gains in enterprises, and expanded market reach.

C. Transaction costs and efficiency

For China, the issue largely concerns the design and implementation of the next stage of institutional reforms to sustain economic growth and efficiency, reduce social inequality, remove market distortions, address environmental deterioration, and combat corruption.

But improved efficiency has its limits.

Effectiveness is more important than efficiency.

It does so with remarkable efficiency.

Measures taken to improve judicial efficiency

And the US is taking steps to balance its budget, boost private savings, and enhance energy efficiency. The US also intends to strengthen capital market competitiveness and ensure that it remains an attractive environment for foreign investment.

Coherence and complementarities have also to be achieved in operations related to the respective roles of the market and the state UNCTAD assistance takes into account the balance between the objectives of efficiency and equity , supporting the development of the private sector and market mechanisms as well as the role of the state (SPC, para.

A big loser here is energy efficiency.

Efficiency doesn t reduce consumption it increases it.