But that leaves another 28m-odd waiting to register, out of a population probably twice that size, most of it in places without the relative efficiency of Kinshasa for running a high-tech electoral system.

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What we are talking about here is customer service efficiency, how much value your service adds relative to the price you charge.

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It is priced too low relative to other goods, so we spend too much on healthcare on efficiency grounds.

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