For all its achievements in other areas, Argentina has done less than, say, Brazil to reorder its public finances, especially those of the provinces, and to increase the efficiency of the central-government bureaucracy.
Improved decision-making through alignment of overall risk appetite and business strategy, helping increase the efficiency of capital utilization.
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To date, 64 European airports have signed up to the Airport Carbon Accreditation Scheme, a voluntary initiative launched in 2009 that aims to reduce emissions from ground transport, boost the use of renewable energy and increase the energy efficiency of airport terminals.
In theory, such specialisation should increase the efficiency of the venture-capital process, as it does in other industries.
Or they may increase the efficiency of the grid by consuming off-peak load and pushing more kilowatt-hours over the same infrastructure.
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Still more newly discovered microbes that live in oil or natural gas wells might increase the efficiency of existing drilling and mining.
With this aim in mind, the company is constantly working to improve its technology so as to increase the efficiency of power plants.
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Experience in Europe and Asia shows that public authorities can increase the efficiency of goods distribution in cities by getting private firms to share their lorries.
He was placed at Project Look by Social Venture Partners, a Seattle organization started in 1997 that's trying to boost volunteerism and increase the efficiency of nonprofits.
He must increase the efficiency of the fertiliser subsidy, which last year cost 758 billion rupees, or about 1.5% of GDP, by paying it directly to needy farmers instead of lucky fertiliser makers.
One way to increase the efficiency of a high-bypass jet engine is to turn the fan into an open rotor, a bit like returning to propellers, but using two rings of stubby counter-rotating blades.
"In the near future, we would like to increase the efficiency of the polarizing organic photovoltaics, and eventually we hope to work with electronic manufacturers to integrate our technology into real products", Yang said.
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And after decades in which we have done little to increase the efficiency of cars and trucks, we've raised fuel economy standards to reduce our dependence on foreign oil while helping folks save money at the pump.
Between 2002 and 2011, states without efficiency goals exhibited an average increase in per-capita electricity consumption of 9%, while states with efficiency goals had a per-capita increase of only 5%.
To stop that from happening, we need to increase conservation, increase energy efficiency, increase the use of alternative and renewable fuels, increase our use of nuclear power, and increase drilling for oil and gas here at home.
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And it offers free improvements to increase the energy efficiency of your home, if you qualify.
Increase the energy efficiency of notebook computers and data center products 25 times by 2020 from 2010 levels.
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As a result, we have done little to increase the fuel efficiency of America's cars and trucks for decades.
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There are several other prospective employment policies that would increase the economic efficiency of colleges, but have yet to be widely implemented.
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Cisco executives said that a shift to cloud computing would help to create better business models for customers and increase the operating efficiency of the network.
We should heavily invest in renewable energy sources like wind and solar power, and we must dramatically increase the energy efficiency of our homes and buildings -- which also would lower our electric bills.
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He says this will create regional jobs, increase resource security, reduce consumption of non-renewable resources, increase material efficiency and prevent carbon emissions and industrial waste - all on a big scale.
Our new models come from industries that have learned to increase the capabilities and efficiency of the human beings who work for them.
No doubt, Israeli engineers and seismologists would be able to increase the efficiency and productivity of existing wells and so increase their output.
That is a recommendation you might expect from a management consultancy, but no less valid for that: part of the recent increase in efficiency in Brazil's car plants, for example, comes from introducing work teams and re-designing production lines.
But the government is becoming increasingly concerned about the problems that pollution brings, such as sickness from filthy air and arid soil from acid rain, which has made it keen to boost the use of renewables and increase energy efficiency.
It is intended to both increase the efficiency and effectiveness of grant programs by eliminating unnecessary and duplicative requirements and strengthen the oversight of grant dollars by focusing on areas such as eligibility, monitoring of sub-recipients, adequate reporting, and other areas that are potential indices of waste, fraud or abuse.
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Kyoto is one of the stimuli to increase efficiency.
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Armed with a better understanding of the constraints, senior executives can get more bang for their buck by identifying targeted productivity-improvement efforts to increase both the efficiency and effectiveness of the interactions between workers.
An accelerator based in New York is seeking to cut down that timeframe and increase the possibility of success by maximizing efficiency and providing developmental assistance for film projects it thinks has a real shot at going all the way.
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