In any case, the eurozone exists and, at this point, it would be exceedingly difficult to dismantle it fully. Given this, the goal today should be to move toward an optimal currency area.

Fifteen is a pretty optimal number.

And what Bayes' rule says is, given my beliefs, the action should in some sense be optimal.

Optimal strategic policies should be based on common welfare, gained through economic integration and redistributive social policies.

(b) Obtain optimal return without undue risk

So it's the optimal way of combining information.

So, very quickly, what is the optimal time profile?

(c) The optimal organizational structure and adequate resource requirements

We got the results from that for the optimal engine.

Given the significance of that body, we believe that the optimal composition must be adopted on the basis of broad agreement.

Undoubtedly, the deliberations of this forum will be guided effectively and will achieve optimal results, thanks to their wisdom and competence.

The other combinations of challenge and skill become progressively less optimal.

Determining an optimal level of accountability for results is also challenging.

From East to West, politics seems to be operating in a manner that is, to be diplomatic, sub optimal. Then again, maybe we re lucky that things aren t worse.

By contrast, the EU Constitution is written with the unspoken understanding that the institutions it is setting up are transitory, that they are far from optimal, and that it would be desirable to change them right now if political realities allowed it.

Furthermore, in order to ensure the optimal benefits from law reform, including financial crisis prevention, poverty reduction and facilitation of debt financing as an engine for economic growth, any effort on security interests would need to be coordinated with efforts on insolvency law.

The main advantages of a narrower, better defined area of activity are that it would allow the Peacebuilding Commission to concentrate its resources, both personal and financial, in an optimal way.

This lack of information may lead to a non optimal allocation of resources.

And he will, or she will, calculate the optimal design of the nozzle.

I mean, is this the optimal environment in which to raise our children?

Internal management structures will be leaner, with authority delegated to the operational level to achieve optimal productivity and optimal support to the COP, the Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol, the subsidiary bodies and the other bodies established under the Convention and the Protocol.

(c) An allocation to emerging market debt may be an optimal method of achieving exposure to the potentially high risk high return profile of developing countries

In an optimal world, the surpluses of countries pursuing export led growth would be willingly matched by the deficits of those pursuing debt led growth. In the real world, there is no mechanism to ensure such an equilibrium on a continuous basis national economic policies can be (and often are) mutually incompatible.

The risk was a less than optimal allocation of scarce resources, or a waste of resources.

Regarding energy supply, Parties mentioned several options, including ensuring an optimal overall mix of energy sources.

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Despite progress in expanding the use of SSC, mainstreaming of the modality is still not optimal.

Instruments aimed at tackling market failure and offering incentives to provide benefits such as watershed protection, biodiversity conservation, recreation and carbon sequestration would contribute to sustainable forest management, as well as socially more optimal forest activities.

The cooperation provided by UNMIK in the protection of witnesses has also been sometimes less than optimal.

Efficiency is not an arithmetical or managerial concept it is a function of optimal and just decisions.

Conversely, if resources and know how are made available, environmental assessment gaps and information quality can be improved, leading to more optimal decision making and improved management of environmental resources.

Indeed, recent work in economic theory shows that capital controls can actually be the optimal policy choice. For example, the new welfare economics of capital controls views unstable capital flows as negative externalities on recipient countries, which implies that regulations on cross border flows are the optimal tools to address market failures, improve market functioning, and enhance growth, not worsen it.

But if you ask the average American what the optimal formula of longevity is, they probably couldn't tell you.

This network will provide them with tools to support the optimal development of their potential and their social integration.

This arrangement is expected to ensure, in a coordinated manner, optimal use of the resources available to the Organization.

Table 2 suggests that the organization of the procurement function within the United Nations system is far from optimal.

In fact, America s experience in the 1960s should have warned the eurozone s creators that tying national monetary authorities hands might not be such a good idea. That would not be the case if the eurozone operated according to Robert Mundell s vision of an optimal currency area, with labor and capital adjustments replacing exchange rate adjustment, and shocks being homogeneous (rather than asymmetric).

Finally, the Group agreed with the Advisory Committee that the oversight bodies' coordination and collaboration in the planning of audit activities was positive and would promote optimal use of audit resources, complementarity of efforts and wider coverage of audit areas.

Now of course there are other moves, but with vast computers we approximate and come close to the optimal solution.

Conventional wisdom suggests that the optimal organizational fine is as much as three times the actual gain from the cartel.

This means that one of the main conditions for the optimal application of the B9 procedure is not always met.

It should include a core catalogue of training opportunities and the optimal decentralization of training funds and reflect subregional priorities.

In an ideal world, where policymakers could credibly commit to medium to long term fiscal adjustment, the optimal and desirable path would be to commit today to a schedule of spending reductions and tax increases, phased in gradually over the next decade as the economy recovers. That way, if the economy needed another targeted fiscal stimulus in the short run, financial markets would not respond by driving up borrowing costs.

And you can actually get optimal nutritional yield by running a kind of high quality liquid soil over plants' root systems.

That is essential for a world order in which decisions are optimal and therefore acceptable, and the use of force minimal.