In particular, we welcomed the significant contribution of the United States through USAID in supporting the development of ASEAN Single Window project, which aims to develop an integrated cross-border process for customs clearance to increase trade efficiency, trade security, and competitiveness across the region.
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Rather than masking the trade offs between efficiency and redundancy, the wedges should illuminate them.
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Yet we do indeed always face a trade off between efficiency and other concerns such as privacy.
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Without free trade, the efficiency improvements wrought by microeconomic reform will be blunted.
Also critical for increasing cross-border trade is improving efficiency at the border.
Freer trade improves productive efficiency and offers consumers better choices, and in the long run these gains are much larger than any effects on employment.
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Many would-be innovators deal with the trade-off between efficiency and innovation by rejecting traditional management entirely.
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The current system presumes a trade-off between efficiency and safety.
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Under a cap and trade system, incentives toward efficiency would be even stronger.
Second, even to the extent that trade liberalization would raise the efficiency of the world economy, it is not, repeat not, a route to overall job creation.
This brings efficiency gains but means that trade with others becomes necessary.
Sound money is good policy, and economic efficiency (including lower taxes and free trade) will do most of the heavy lifting in a free, capitalist system.
He has written studies on energy taxes, the oil market, electricity regulation, energy efficiency, renewable energy, sustainable development and trade and the environment.
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The meeting will address the vision, strategy and analytical framework for growth and efficiency of green initiatives and the international agenda around the following initiatives: Power system transformation, energy efficiency in industry, global water demand issues, bio-refining, trade, aviation and financing.
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Last week the Senate passed a substantial but flawed energy bill, which imposed tougher fuel-efficiency standards on cars but failed to consider a carbon tax or a cap-and-trade system.
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