Author: United States, Government Accountability Office
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
Keywords: energy, efficiency, gulf, reconstruction, improvements, coast, significant, important, challenges, overcome, opportunities
Number of Pages: 40
Published:
ISBN-10: 142239686X
ISBN-13: 9781422396865

Author: Unknown
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
Keywords: electric, utilities, trends, challenges, efficiency, energy
Number of Pages: 205
Published: 1993-02
ISBN-10: 078810442X
ISBN-13: 9780788104428

Examines the prospects for advancing U.S. energy efficiency through technology improvements & regulatory changes in the utility sector & related Federal & State initiatives. Photos, charts & tables.

Author: A. Bruce Steinwald
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
Keywords: greater, program, efficiency, lead, patterns, focus, physician, practice, medicare
Number of Pages: 55
Published: 2007-08-01
ISBN-10: 1422317218
ISBN-13: 9781422317211

The Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, & Modernization Act of 2003 (MMA) directed a study of the compensation of physicians in traditional fee-for-service (FFS) Medicare. This study explored linking physician compensation to efficiency -- defined as providing & ordering a level of services that is sufficient to meet a patientżs health care needs but not excessive, given the patientżs health status. This report: (1) estimates the prevalence in Medicare of physicians who are likely to practice inefficiently; (2) examines physician-focused strategies used by health care purchasers to enco

Author: World Bank
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Keywords: energy, finance, efficiency, based, program, utility, impact, assessing, ifc, china
Number of Pages: 94
Published: 2010-06-30
ISBN-10: 0821384503
ISBN-13: 9780821384503

This evaluation assesses the performance of IFC 's energy efficiency finance program in China aimed at stimulating energy efficiency investments through bank guarantees and technical assistance. The difference made by the program is traced along the chain of interventions: (i) at the level of banks, the program is narrowly based on one of the two partner banks, which, with the help of the program, expanded its energy efficiency lending as a new business line; (ii) at the level of energy management companies, the program 's technical assistance improved the program participants access to financ

Author: Unknown
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Keywords: support, plan, action, emissions, co2, industrial, energy, efficiency, tracking
Number of Pages: 325
Published: 2007-08-30
ISBN-10: 9264030166
ISBN-13: 9789264030169

Industry accounts for about one-third of global energy demand. Most of that energy is used to produce raw materials: chemicals, iron and steel, non-metallic minerals, pulp and paper and non-ferrous metals. Just how efficiently is this energy put to work? 'Tracking Industrial Energy Efficiency and CO2 Emissions' shows how industrial energy efficiency has improved over the last 25 years. Yet important opportunities for additional gains remain, which is evident when the efficiencies of different countries are compared. This analysis identifies the leaders and the laggards. It explains clearly a c

Author: DIANE Publishing Company
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
Keywords: refueling, operational, efficiency, aerial, assessment, desert, storm, operation
Number of Pages: 24
Published:
ISBN-10: 0788141287
ISBN-13: 9780788141287

Assesses the future of the air refueling tanker force in light of Operation Desert Storm & the significant change in the international security environment. Desert Storm had underscored the relevance of a 1990 initiative intended both to (1) enhance the efficiency of the tanker force during conventional combat & (2) standardize the refueling systems of U.S. fighter aircraft. This report focuses on additional actions that the Desert Storm experience suggest could further improve the efficiency & effectiveness of aerial refueling operations. Tables.

Author: Marc Labonte
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
Keywords: issues, economic, government, role, size
Number of Pages: 30
Published: 2010-11
ISBN-10: 1437937128
ISBN-13: 9781437937121

The size of govżt. has increased significantly since the financial crisis of 2008 as a result of the governmentżs unplanned intervention in financial markets and subsequent stimulus legislation. Contents of this report: (1) How Does the Govżt. Affect the Economy?; (2) How Large is the Govżt.?; (3) Effect of the Govżt. on Economic Efficiency: What is a Market Failure?; Public Goods; Common Resources; Monopoly Power; Externalities; Asymmetric Information; Failure to Optimize; How Do Taxes Affect Economic Efficiency?; Balancing Economic Efficiency With Other Goals; (4) Effect of the Govżt.