Fishing is by nature and design selective, targeting species and sizes that yield the highest economic returns.
The 25 companies that delivered the highest economic returns, for example, spent on average just 0.8% of their revenues on IT, while the typical company spent 3.7%.
Energy recovery systems made profitable use of semi-natural grasslands with the highest economic returns attained by IFBB-AO (Return On Investment, ROI: 22.75%) and HC (ROI: 22.00%) systems, followed by the IFBB-SA (ROI: 7.71%) and the DF system (ROI: 6.22%).
Instead, as Juha Niemela, boss of UPM-Kymmene, points out, they have streamlined the business, concentrating on particular grades of paper, such as fine papers for office use, and sought to consolidate paper making in products with the biggest technical demands and the highest economic returns.
Some economists recommend that public support for ECE services focus only on low-income children, because investing in this group yields the highest economic returns (Heckman & Masterov, 2004; Lynch, 2004; Rolnick & Grunewald, 2003).
Vaccinating 60% of the population would generate the highest economic returns but may not be possible within the time required for vaccine effectiveness, especially if two doses of vaccine are required.
Considering market and climate uncertainty, agroforestry showed an up to 21% higher economic return at the same risk level (i.e. standard deviation of economic returns).
That's how London and New York and Chicago became big cities in the nineteenth century — by offering, in succession, an unusually high economic return to newcomers.
Samosir, Foale and Adkins likewise presented a conference paper in which they argued that while it is widely acknowledged that coconut farmers should turn their attention to the production of more diverse products with higher economic return such as coconut water, these farmers 'have limited knowledge of such products and access to the technology that can produce the products.
