Despite the hype about the shale gas revolution, the extraction cost of (onshore) conventional gas remains below that of shale gas.

Ideology and profiteering have also played a role in driving up the war s costs.

The debate about austerity and the high cost of public debt is thus misleading on two accounts.

But major disagreements about how to achieve that goal remain.

Discussions about the headscarf achieve the opposite.

Recent research by the International Monetary Fund on the context specific variability of fiscal multipliers has raised serious questions about the costs and effectiveness of rapid fiscal consolidation.

Seabee from Dubai writes about how authorities are investigating the increasing number of fires in vehicles in this post.

With exports of manufactures becoming more expensive, China will have to grow by producing something else.

These measures are achievable by 2010. They are affordable, and in each case would ultimately deliver large net benefits.

An investigation by the Taiwan Province of China competition agency determined that the wholesale costs for these products had not increased.

The size of the calamity raises the question of whether small countries can really afford bank bailouts.

Everyone agrees that deficit reduction is required, while differing on how to go about it.

Privatization and liberalization have produced mixed results, either increasing prices for the poor or entailing other adjustment costs (e.g. loss of employment).

What the international community needs to do is to come together on a program of action aimed at producing a result.

In an age of soaring oil costs, a few countries have made a real difference in energy efficiency. The OECD countries, on average, use 160 kilograms of oil equivalent energy for every 1,000 of GDP (measured at purchasing power parity).

13. We acknowledge that the special characteristic of the Pacific Island region incurs significant transaction costs and place practical constraints on the prospect for achieving the MDGs.

It is about making the best decisions for the community as a whole.

His Government therefore welcomed the Security Council's decision to establish an international commission of inquiry to investigate violations of international humanitarian law and human rights law in Darfur.

The Millennium Project estimates that based on average per capita costs in selected African countries, 100 per person per year are required to achieve the Millennium Development Goals.

Despite the summit s aspirational rhetoric, there is no consensus about how to achieve sustainable development, exemplified by disagreement over the potential of green growth.

When the difference between borrowing costs and growth becomes too large, the primary budget surpluses required to stop debt from increasing become impossible to achieve.

Effective harnessing of existing and emerging technologies, will both reduce costs of, and increase the likelihood of achieving the MDGs.

Rows about the short term costs of dealing with climate change won t make it any easier to keep markets open.

Dutch politics and governance are characterised by an effort to achieve broad consensus on important issues, within both the political community and society as a whole.

But they cannot do so without secure access to land and water as well as to rural financial services to pay for seed, tools, and fertilizer.

Bukeni and Madeleine discuss their hopes for the outcome of the Lubanga trial and hopes justice will be served for child soldiers everywhere.

Dictatorship fell 19 months ago, and so far not a single serious investigation into the policing of the web was conducted.

In 1934 the director of education in Jamaica made a thorough investigation of British Honduras's education system.

There are many ways that this can be done, including reducing the cost of domestic inputs and services through targeted investments in infrastructure.

The Workshop explored the effect of the decentralization of forest sector processes on social, cultural, economic, and environmental conditions around the world.

But achieving these laudable goals will be expensive, coming on top of the giant budget deficits the US is running to counter the financial crisis.

French production costs are high, but Greek costs are higher.

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3. Continues to support strongly the efforts of the Secretary General in order to achieve a mutually acceptable political solution to the dispute over Western Sahara

3. Continues to support strongly the efforts of the Secretary General and his Personal Envoy in order to achieve a mutually acceptable political solution to the dispute over Western Sahara

And there is now a common understanding in China that meeting this objective requires that the government safeguard financial liberalization.

Does that mean that we really don t know anything about what works (and what doesn t) in development?

The Conference called on the US Administration to conduct an immediate investigation into these humiliations for Muslims and the denigration of their Holy Book to bring the people responsible for these acts to justice and to issue an official apology for these practices.

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