In the developing countries, an environmental defence would focus on full cost pricing of natural resources. It would also focus attention on building effective institutions at the national as well as at the local levels. In multilateral institutions that seek to help those countries ,decision about investments should be guided also by environmental criteria. It is also essential that they facilitate the transfer of environmentally benign technologies to the developing countries and provide the necessary financial and technical assistance for poverty alleviation and sustainable development in countries not benefiting from foreign direct investment. Good efficiency would reduce consumption of natural resources and energy and would optimally use human resources.
Bad efficiency does the opposite and renders human resources superfluous to a large extent.