People and businesses alike made cost-efficient savings- installing building insulation, double glazing, switched off lights and recycling to avoid a punitive landfill tax.
"At a time when out-of-pocket payments for health care are increasing, and the growing number of 'consumer-directed' high-deductible health plans put more pressure on patients to make cost-efficient health care decisions, the opacity of health care pricing is increasingly concerning," the study authors wrote.
Interview respondents noted that the lack of laboratory capacity slowed the testing process and prohibited inspectors from making cost-efficient judgments about required follow-up action.
2 At a time when out-of-pocket payments for healthcare are increasing, 3 and the growing number of 'consumer-directed' high deductible health plans put more pressure on patients to make cost-efficient healthcare decisions, 4 5 the opacity of healthcare pricing is increasingly concerning.
With the current excitement around companies like SpaceX and Blue Origin, he said "the private sector has a lot to offer in accelerating a mission like this and making it cost efficient".
South Korea has invested heavily in its Internet infrastructure and has the advantage of high population density that makes it more cost efficient to install the necessary cables.
I really think you can change the design of something to make it more cost efficient but if you're doing it at the expense of someone actually reading the document, what's the point?
The yield of 227Ac after purification is relatively high and 226Ra is highly available, making the process cost efficient.
From an efficiency point of view, capital slack can be considered as idling resources and may thus make firms less cost efficient (note that a positive significant impact means less efficient).
This is because the original purpose of quality standards such as ISO 9000 was to promote international trades, enhance sales performance of firms, reduce quality issues and make firms more cost efficient.
And in the way that tech has managed to disrupt other very closed industries and force change and make them more cost efficient and transparent, there's no reason that can't happen in public finance as well.
