Do you think that the private sector is an efficient provider of public goods?
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what in YOUR mind are "public" goods.\n\nin my mind, the private sector is ALWAYS more efficient that govenmental efforts of providing ANYTHING.
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i salute the Lopez family for venturing on public utility businesses. it's tough to deal with these large scale enterprises because they focus on larger groups of people to render service. \n\nthey have ventures on electricity, water supply, broadcasting, telephony and several more. people should understand that without their efforts of providing these services, the government wouldn't be able to sufficiently provide these basic needs. \n\nif people are experiencing hikes and additional costs, they should check first the descriptions and reasons behind the cost before they criticize the company whose reasons for being is to give the service people deserve.\n\nim not a lopez but i understand the obstacles they face in handling public utility businesses.
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yes.a political party or a government can go for ISO accredation.but there is hardly any political party or the government that can get certification.no government had 100% efficiency.
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I'm correcting your grammar: \n\nHello, My name is Sharlyn . Today Im gonna talk ABOUT the Economic aspect of Singapore. First, let me ask:  HAVE any of you been to Singapore or THOUGHT ABOUT doing business there perhaps???\n\nDoing business in Singapore is acutally BENEFICIAL(desirable?) BECAUSE their economy is a highly developed and successful free market economy (meaning only businesses and consumers decide what they will produce and purchase, so basically there is no governmental intervention )
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efficient capital market allows more money to be invested, which means more goods and services produced, which means lower prices. \n\nyou get more investment b/c efficient market has zero gap between the rate that users of capital pay, and the rate that owners of capital receive. In real world, this gap is non-zero, so less capital is supplied to the market; and less capital is demanded.
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no!!!!what ever happened to personal responsibility.we rely on the government for too much.\nif they took less of our money we would have an easier time taking care of ourselves.\none more thing.why is it that the people that contribute the least get the most.
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"The financial sector mobilizes savings and allocates\ncredit across space and time. It provides not only payment services, but more importantly products which enable firms and households to cope with economic uncertainties by hedging, pooling, sharing, and pricing risks. An efficient financial sector reduces the cost and risk of producing and trading goods and services and thus makes an important contribution to raising standards of living."\n\nSo there - in short - if we didn't have one - we would have to work in real money (ie no loans) which could prevent us (or businesses) from investing in projects until the money was saved...\n\nAlso the whole insurance market wouldn't exist which could have devastating consequences for households and businesses.
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The growth of an economy can come from two sources.  Government investment or entrepreneur investment.  Although government investment can facilitate economic growth as in building new roads and water supply systems many times government development money is not put to the best economic use because that development money is dictated not by best use but by political and self interest considerations. \n\nEntrepreneur investment on the other hand tends to be much more efficient in promoting economic development because the main consideration in that investment is only return on investment.  The investment tends to gravitate toward where it can make the highest return and thus generate the highest economic benefit to the economy.  \n\nThat is why free market economies tend to outperform planned economies in general, because the free market tends to know better where the highest economic returns are located whereas the planners tend to funnel investments for their own personal interests.
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Maximum public benefit at minimum public cost.
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Nope. The rich and poor countries are intertwined whether they like it or not. The rich need the poor to exploit and the poor need the rich in order to be exploited. There would not be one without the other.
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Perfectly optimal, not really.  That's just in textbooks where everyone has perfect information and the rest of the unrealistic assumptions.  It's possible to have a highly efficient firm, though, where it is always trying to cut costs and increase revenues as much as possible.  Where humans are involved, there's a lot of room for non optimal results.
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of course! every corporation has to be responsible with everything that it does.  it should, as much as possible try to see to it that each of its stakeholders (people affected by its actions, from investors, employees, suppliers, customers and many others) are benefited with its actions. it should always try to consider the welfare of these stakeholders in making its decisions.  \n\nthis responsibility is intrinsic to every corporation... however, the big question is whether corporations are aware and working towards the fulfillment of such responsibility.\n\nwhen a corporation is fully aware of its social responsibilities and it is able to satisfy them, then probably, fulfilling the said responsibilities will surely increase its profits.\n\nfor example, if a corporation care for its employees, then its employees will be more willing and loyal to do their best in performing their tasks....\n\nif a corporation makes products that are proven to be beneficial to its customers, then it will be able to enlarge its market, thus increasing its profits.\n\nif a corporation has a good relationship with its suppliers then it will be able to get only the best raw materials at lower cost, thus increasing its profits...\n\nand so on....
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Yes, but the "fair"ness depends on the situation.  If they're taking your land to give to private developers, the private developers obviously couldn't afford to pay the ACTUAL price that land owners would have charge them for it.  So, unethical governments will use imminent domain to steal the land, then they will have the private developers put stores on it that will cause the price of the land to skyrocket.
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Define bogus.  Is it really the government's job to find energy of any kind?\n\nI don't think so.  That is a private sector issue.  Go look up Economics and our Constitution.  We have no right to any fuel of any sort.
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I suggest that you look at the website www.publicprivatedialogue.org. It is an on-line resource for practitioners wishing to design or maintain dialogue initiatives between the public and the private sector. The information on the site is geared towards investment climate reform, but the techniques described are applicable to other types of dialogues. The Lessons Learned page is especially useful, as well as the 40+ case studies which you could learn from. The site is sponsored by the OECD, the World Bank, the IFC, DFID and GTZ.
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Have the government provide goods and services that benefit the community that cannot be efficiently/effectively be provided for by the private sector.\n\nExamples:\nnational defense--who wants to have a private army?\nrule of law--enforce contracts, provide rules for orderly economic exchange\ninfrastructure--roads, bridges, dams\n\nand many more!\n\nThe important distinction in my mind is that the public policy implementation must be less expensive than an equivalent service provided for by the private sector.\n\nPeople disagree on how to evaluate public goods and the relative capabilities of government and the private sector.\n\nAnother problem is the statesman/politician distinction.  A statesman will try to influence public policy to do what he/she believes is best for the community.  A  politician merely seeks to gain and exercise power through partisanship and the trading of favors, which inevitably hurts the community.
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No, I don't believe so, because those businesses in return becomes taxpayers too, also most of the businesses becomes assets to the growth and development of the neighborhood.  I do believe the agency should have task force which does studies in defining which business may be pratical for its use of the funds, and not allocate funds just because persons want to go into business.  I also believe the agencies responsible for allocating funding should be held accountable for how the money is allocated, and being used.  There are very good viable small businesses barely surviving and grants allocated to them would be good not only for them, but for the employees, communioty and economics.