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  2. Effectiveness - Wikipedia

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    Effectiveness or effectivity [1] is the capability of producing a desired result or the ability to produce desired output. When something is deemed effective, it means it has an intended or expected outcome, or produces a deep, vivid impression. [2]

  3. Efficiency - Wikipedia

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    Efficiency refers to very different inputs and outputs in different fields and industries. In 2019, the European Commission said: "Resource efficiency means using the Earth's limited resources in a sustainable procent manner while minimising impacts on the environment. It allows us to create more with less and to deliver greater value with less ...

  4. Sustainable development - Wikipedia

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    Economic development has traditionally required a growth in the gross domestic product. This model of unlimited personal and GDP growth may be over. Sustainable development may involve improvements in the quality of life for many but may necessitate a decrease in resource consumption. [52] "Growth" generally ignores the direct effect that the ...

  5. Production (economics) - Wikipedia

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    A producing company can be divided into sub-processes in different ways; yet, the following five are identified as main processes, each with a logic, objectives, theory and key figures of its own. It is important to examine each of them individually, yet, as a part of the whole, in order to be able to measure and understand them.

  6. Human population planning - Wikipedia

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    Policies that aim to boost relative growth rates are known as positive eugenics; those that aim to reduce relative growth rates are known as negative eugenics. Attempts to ensure that all population groups of a certain type (e.g. all social classes within a society) have the same average rate of population growth.

  7. Maximum sustainable yield - Wikipedia

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    The effect is that the population growth rate is again very low, because either each individual is hardly reproducing or mortality rates are high. [12] As a result of these two extremes, the population growth rate is maximum at an intermediate population or half the carrying capacity (=).

  8. Production–possibility frontier - Wikipedia

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    In microeconomics, a production–possibility frontier (PPF), production possibility curve (PPC), or production possibility boundary (PPB) is a graphical representation showing all the possible options of output for two that can be produced using all factors of production, where the given resources are fully and efficiently utilized per unit time.

  9. Growth management - Wikipedia

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    Growth management, in the United States, is a set of techniques used by the government to ensure that as the population grows that there are services available to meet their demands. Growth management goes beyond traditional land use planning, zoning and subdivision controls in both the characteristics of development influenced and the scope of ...