New technologies promise not just big improvements in local efficiency, but also the further and potentially bigger gains that flow from an infinitely denser network of connections, electronic and otherwise, with the developed world.
Washington-centric bureaucracies staffed by cronies and incompetents overwhelmed the efficiency of local offices, often closing them down.
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But this research also shows that other factors, such as government economic policies, local enterprise, the efficiency of public administration and the amount of foreign direct investment are just as important in raising economic performance.
The council said the aim to minimise cuts to frontline services and officers would focus on improving the efficiency of the local authority.
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Voters focused on local concerns: crime, administrative efficiency, social welfare and the performance of officials in office.
An EcoAd from the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 103 is funding an energy efficiency project at the Putnam Avenue Housing Project in Cambridge, Mass.
On the other hand, I know of companies that are having their power supplies cut back this quarter, so that the local governments can meet their energy efficiency goals for the year.
Louisville is one of 10 cities chosen to participate in Code for America, a national, nonprofit fellowship that provides cities with tech-savvy professionals to help create online applications that use data and technology to bring greater openness, efficiency and participation to local government.
The Department of Health said local authorities must play their part in finding efficiency savings.
Efficiency is emissions free, creates local (and non-exportable) jobs, and repeatedly demonstrates a respectable benefit to investment ratio.
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The Commission will need to ensure that the move towards diesel vehicles to improve efficiency does not lead to increased local air pollution from particulates.
Beijing is also rating local government leaders on their performance in reaching energy efficiency goals.
Teams of federal employees are embedded with seven Mayors across the country to provide tailored technical assistance to cut through red tape, increase government efficiency, and build partnerships to help local leaders implement sustainable economic plans.
Over the course of the next year, the Team will employ local college students to maintain the program and monitor the efficiency of the water purification technology.
Business and leisure travelers will be able to identify the travel providers who are taking measures to improve their energy efficiency, as well as those who help local charities and communities.
The government says that by 2020 it wants all schools to be "models of energy efficiency and renewable energy" and provide "healthy, local and sustainable food and drink produced or prepared on site".
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The EU Climate Commissioner, Connie Hedegaard, said climate policies would cut local pollution, reduce dependency on fossil fuel imports, improve resource efficiency, save money on energy and even make people fitter if they left their cars at home and cycled to work.
In its place will be decentralised arrangements based on partnership, quality and efficiency to put doctors and nurses in the lead in shaping local services.
Boosting energy-efficiency and the use of renewables not only helps secure energy supplies and cuts local pollution, but also helps keep carbon emissions in check too.
The age of the local building stock represents a challenge, as well as an opportunity, to achieving the energy efficiency goals.
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But many state and local governments and some federal agencies have been able to work around these constraints and have improved efficiency and raised service quality.
Cuomo said he believes local politics is standing in the way of mergers and consolidations that would save taxpayers money and improve efficiency of services.
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