Thus, a key change should be to distinguish between the IMF s financial measures and its analytical functions, especially the surveillance of exchange rates and other sources of global financial risk.

Table 4 Ratios of key financial indicators

As fiscal metrics become increasingly intricate, monitoring efforts will become ever easier to undermine.

National measurements

Regional measurements

International measurements

Until now, the main publications have been a special paper on ISO standards and a booklet on arbitration, circulated among its members.

Setting standards

Other key financial indicators had slightly deteriorated.

Other key financial indicators had slightly deteriorated.

The Institute receives its main financial contribution from the Hiroshima Prefectural Government.

This is clearly an extremely sound investment.

There are thousands of parameters of water quality.

The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) standards exist.

The report highlighted several key issues, including benchmarks for measuring progress towards mutually agreed commitments the challenges of improving aid effectiveness and promoting policy coherence.

Financial highlights for the year ended 31 December 2004

This is the wrong approach.

It was, undeniably, a political failure.

But these rules don t address the main problem the weakened incentives for market discipline for core financial institutions.

(b) The B I should include indicators for processes.

Florence became the centre of this financial industry and the gold florin became the main currency of international trade.

That would be nothing short of disastrous.

The results based on these measures, however, are not necessarily consistent.

The government plans to merge the regulatory functions of key financial institutions, including the Central Bank of The Bahamas (CBB) and the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Financial, transport and manufacturing firms were the three major investors from Singapore.

Currently, as part of the core operations of the Fund, the Financial Services Section is process driven.

By virtually any measure, official Japanese debt is the highest in the world.

Monitoring should relate to both ecological and economic parameters.

By any standards, an FMCT is ripe for negotiation.

This distortion is perceived to be one of the main causes of the 2008 financial crisis.

Major sectors of the Jamaican economy include agriculture, mining, manufacturing, tourism, and financial and insurance services.

(Indeed, by most accounts, it is about to default.)

Measures are derived from the records in the fact table and dimensions are derived from the dimension tables.

In several key sectors such as financial services and retail, China is already more open than Thailand.

Although it is in principle different from managerial finance which studies the financial management of all firms, rather than corporations alone, the main concepts in the study of corporate finance are applicable to the financial problems of all kinds of firms.

The mathematics of quantum mechanics tells us this is how the world works at tiny scales.

But North Korea s test this month was by all measures the real thing.

On this, admittedly subjective, measure, Somaliland qualifies as a nation.

This type of measurement can be very misleading from a human rights perspective.

During the impact of Hidalgo, the seismometers will reach saturation due to the high accelerations.

It is one of the summary measures of population health, known as health expectancies, composite measures of health that combine mortality and morbidity data to represent overall population health on a single indicator.

Accordingly, I wish to record my appreciation for the co operation and assistance extended by the Director General and the staff of the organisation during my audit.

The major difficulty most often reported by affected developing countries is still the lack of financial backing.

SINGAPORE A year into the global financial crisis, several key central banks remain extraordinarily exposed to their countries shaky private financial sectors.

The present chapter on financial highlights is designed to be read in conjunction with the financial statements of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), but can also be considered alone.