Improving allocation of resources

All countries should develop policies that improve efficiency in the allocation of resources and take full advantage of the opportunities offered by the changing global economic environment.

This strategy features in the framework of Agenda 21 as formulated at UNCED (Rio de Janeiro, 1992), now coordinated by the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development and implemented through national and local authorities.

1. In order to allocate efficiently in the market place, smaller, more accountable companies are needed.

1. Upgrading
2. Inventing
3. Managing natural resources
4. Improving

1. Sharing water
2. Sharing international water resources
3. Regulating mode of allocation of social benefits
4. Redressing differences in allocation of resources
5. Re-orienting attitudes to resource allocation
6. Locating market indicators
7. Intensifying existing resource use
8. Improving natural resource use
9. Implementing land reform
10. Distributing medical resources
11. Determining cost factors
12. Creating production schedules
13. Allocating resource surpluses
14. Allocating aid more fairly

1. Sustaining industrial innovation
2. Reducing product weight
3. Reducing agricultural surpluses
4. Providing new production possibilities
5. Mobilizing financial resources for shelter
6. Informing production management patterns
7. Demanding trained personnel
8. Continuing development of production operations
9. Allocating external aid

1. Setting supply and demand requirements for economic goods
2. Requiring resource planning priorities
3. Maintaining production systems
4. Maintaining distribution system
5. Establishing international legal order
6. Designating responsibility for financial resource development
7. Describing need for production schemes
8. Demonstrating need for effective use of resources
9. Demanding management input
10. Creating futures markets

1. Specifying employment levels
2. Outlining multifold requirements
3. Defining time factors in industry

1. Restricting production materials
2. Restricting management parameters

1. Establishing environmentally responsible enterprises

1. Worldwide misallocation of resources

1. Overdemand
2. Inefficiency
3. Efficiency

1. Agenda 21