The south-to-north water diversion project is a mega-project that is strategically aimed at realizing the optimal allocation of water resources,
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The ECN merely constitutes a mechanism for an optimal allocation of cases and sets rules for the exchange of information amongst themselves.
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This approach, in theory, leads to an optimal allocation of resources; where harm can be cheaply avoided, the legal system requires precautions.
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Specifically, it is NP-hard, meaning that it is conjectured that there does not exist a polynomial-time algorithm which finds the optimal allocation.
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"There is a need to improve labour market information to ensure optimal allocation of resources and to reduce mismatch in skills, " he said.
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Most social scientists assert that there must be some optimal allocation between government involvement in the private sphere, a golden mean toward which citizens are forever striving.
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This results in a sub-optimal allocation of resources money spent on lobbyists and counter-lobbyists rather than on research and development, on improved business practices, on special interests.
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Diamond and Mirrlees examine a situation in which the government requires a revenue raised by taxes but lump-sum taxation, and therefore a first-best Pareto optimal allocation of resources is unavailable.
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While the VCG auction tries to make a socially optimal allocation of items, VCG mechanisms allow for the selection of a socially optimal outcome out of a set of possible outcomes.
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Optimal allocation of developer time is a wider issue which is best tackled based on the whole picture of development needs, not for every micro-issue on a case by case basis.