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How far will a nation go for energy? Sweden is now allocating its resources in a more productive manner: bunnies are turned into heat. Due to the overpopulation of rabbits in the region, Konvex, an incinerator firm, uses rabbits to heat homes in Sweden. Since there are so many rabbits, representatives explain, this method is quite efficient in terms of energy production.

That's a reall interesting article. Who would think of burning rabbits to make green fuel? It is efficient but it might cause a problem with the animal rights groups.

This article is about the need for Industrialization in African states. Industrialization would improve the productive efficiency in these countries by lowering the average costs of production. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon believes that increased industrialization in Africa will increase competition and allow integration into the global economy.

This article doesn't specifically mention a natural monopoly, but it refers to one because it is an industry with high sunk costs that is more efficient with less firms and central infrastructure.

Chrysler looks to decrease costs by improving efficiency and productivity. They planned to reduce costs by making the type of car they created variable in the long run. The new short run as a result of this new, cheaper car has the cost of production of the new Chrysler at a lower fixed cost.

This article is about the increasing manufacturing in the U.S. Mid-Atlantic region. The trend in jobless aid claims continued to go downwards. This represents an increase in output, and thus a possible increase in productive efficiency.

Russian steelmaker, Severstal, has posted a net profit of $66 million. The article says this was partly due to the reduction in production costs, thus improving the productive effciency.

The EEF manufacture organization in UK announced that public finances are needed to restore the stability of the Uk's productive sector or else firms are going to drop out of the industry. This is relevant to the concept of effeciency because if these firms cannot either reach the allocative or productive effeciency, they will have to exit from the industry due to tremendous loss.