If education acts as a signalling or sorting device, allocating better-qualified individuals to better jobs rather than improving the overall productive capacity of the population, then individual gains from education need not add up to collective gains.
And students have no assurance that any extra university funding will allocated to better quality teaching.
In general, the shorter the time span for which resources are allocated, the better the energy efficiency would be.
The allocation scheme of the proposed ESC-US scheme is shown in Figure 4, which shows that the proposed scheme schedules the required bandwidth to use the residual bandwidth of the frames that the MS had initially been allocated for better resource usage.
Furthermore, this responsibility is now exclusively allocated to better paid ward supervisors who are no longer overburdened with excessive data collation from numerous CORPs.
While loss of one parent is an important aspect of vulnerability (Skinner et al., 2006), if double orphans do not fall through the extended family safety net entirely (Foster et al., 1995), they may be allocated to better-off relatives and therefore be more likely to receive measures of social protection.
The results over the next few years could be significantly better than currently expected if Royal Mail were to take more forceful measures to improve efficiency and allocate capital better.
Japan's fiscal problems, the need to allocate resources better in the economy and the risks of deflation: all need to be considered together.
The first was that markets allocate capital better than politicians do, so we risk distortions with tax provisions aimed at encouraging investment in one part or another of the economy.
But many experts agree that a significant number of discarded kidneys — perhaps even half, some believe — could be transplanted if the system for allocating them better matched the right organ to the right recipient in the right amount of time.
