Traduction de «alternative economy » (Anglais → Français) :

The lack of harmonised development of alternative fuels infrastructure across the Union prevents the development of economies of scale on the supply side and Union-wide mobility on the demand side.

Capital market debt accounts for corporate funding is just 7% of GDP in Europe compared with 35% in the USA[57] This structural feature of the EU economy makes EU industry more sensitive to the impact of the banking crisis, given the limited availability of alternative financing sources.

Points out that more than 90 % of heroin in Europe originates from Afghanistan and that the cost to public health in European countries runs into billions of dollars; emphasises that the challenges posed by the drug economy in Afghanistan must be tackled not only nationally but internationally by addressing all links in the drug chain and that this requires, in particular, assistance to farmers to reduce supply, as well as drug prevention and treatment to curb demand, and law enforcement against the intermediaries; proposes, in particular, massive investment in the establishment of a comprehensive agricultural and rural policy to offer ...[+++] opium producers a credible, lasting alternative; insists also on the need to integrate environment into the agriculture and rural strategy, as degradation of the environment – caused for instance by poor management of water resources or the destruction of natural forest – is one of the main barriers to the development of the agricultural economy;

In the alternative, they have argued that the notified measure does not constitute State aid because ÖIAG acted as a market economy investor would have done in a similar situation, in so far as the alternative scenarios facing ÖIAG were all more expensive and ÖIAG chose the least expensive option.

It also requires the development of the skills needed in the knowledge economy and to develop content through the delivery of applications and services (such as e-government, e-business, e-learning and e-health), which provide interesting alternatives to other, often more costly, service delivery models.

Structural policies focus on the supply side of the economy. They aim to increase the level of potential output by raising the supply of factors of production (labour or capital). Alternatively, they aim to improve the functioning of labour, capital or product markets thus increasing the efficiency with which factors are combined and the flexibility with which an economy responds to shocks.