Decides to reduce operational costs by 1 million dollars

Benefits were translated as gains from cost reductions.

Both scenarios entail reduction of the fixed cost base of UNOPS and the introduction of new service pricing mechanisms.

Until demand returns, business will remain in a cost cutting mode.

Thus cost cutting cannot be as radical or as rapid.

While consolidation may imply some short term costs, especially in a recession, the long term costs of delay are large.

Any future course of action will need to address pricing accuracy and reduce the high fixed cost base.

The results also reflected China s declining attractiveness as a base for product assembly, low cost manufacturing, and parts production.

It was important to develop transport and communication infrastructure to reduce costs and facilitate exports from LDCs.

This approach, also adopted by Italy, contributes to reducing costs and increasing the overall volume of funds for beneficiaries.

Official policy aims to reduce the cost of globalization for individuals, but never for companies.

The Committee believes that there is a need to examine translation requirements and methods with a view to reducing costs while ensuring optimal quality.

In addition to cost cutting, specific measures to be implemented under option one include

Common to both options is the need to promptly implement a series of measures to cut UNOPS fixed cost base.

A stronger renminbi lowers the cost to Chinese consumers and Chinese firms of imported products as expressed in renminbi.

At the other end of the spectrum, many small, transaction intensive portfolios contribute little to the revenue base while adding disproportionately to the fixed cost base.

Given this, it is imperative that European governments adopt cost cutting measures that do not jeopardize their naval assets.

Food fortification and iron supplementation are widely ranked among the most cost effective interventions for poverty reduction.

It is the fixed costs that limit the diffusion of the networks. So, a strategy for inclusive growth has to focus on ways of either lowering or paying for the fixed costs that connect people to networks.

Such partnerships would cut by half the cost and time of experimenting and learning for the US, while avoiding redundancy and waste.

Considerable manufacturing capacity has been added, which has halved costs over the past two years.

In the United States, there has been a push to legalize importation of medications from Canada and other countries, in order to reduce consumer costs.

The U.S. Government's target is to reduce these costs from the current average of 120 per employee per year down to 97.

While continuing to provide a range of service lines, UNOPS will rationalize and streamline its corporate and support structures to reduce its fixed cost base, introduce activity based costing, and price its services to ensure full cost recovery.

The last option deflation of wages and prices to reduce costs, achieve a real depreciation, and restore competitiveness is associated with ever deepening recession.

A relatively small change in the parameters of this program could lower its future costs, as was done in the 1980 s.

That was followed by a brazen attack on a naval base in Karachi, in which some very expensive equipment, including aircraft, was destroyed.

Thereafter, with good revenue returns on a lower fixed cost base, annual income from ongoing operations is expected to rise, generating an increasingly solid end year fund balance, projected to increase to 17.79 million in 2007 and 27.35 million in 2008.

To change the Israeli Palestinian dynamic, external actors now need to influence the political calculus inside Israel and Palestine by lowering the political cost of peace and raising the cost of occupation . Any meaningful Arab Israeli peace depends on Israel s return of Palestinian territories, with certain conditions, but no Israeli government will be willing or even able to do so unless the political calculus inside Israel changes.

Again, politicians tried to delete or change references to these high costs. British officials explained that they wanted such cost estimates cut because they would give a boost to those who doubt action is needed.

The move is reported to be one of the many cost cutting measures taken by Air India, which is facing debt of around Rs 550 billion (US 8.5 billion).

They have to cut wages, pensions, and other costs in order to achieve the same gain in competitiveness needed to substitute external demand for internal demand.

The economic and human costs of deficit reduction in a weak economy are appalling, and the targets won t be met, either, because the spending cuts will erode the government s revenue as aggregate demand falls.

Low cost domestic energy could help to lower the trade deficit, spur investment, and decrease America s economic exposure to volatile oil exporting countries.

What are the likely costs and benefits of stimulus versus consolidation? And what is the best combination of spending cuts and tax hikes?

Large reductions in public sector wages brought down the primary deficit, but employment maintenance lowers productivity, raises costs, and delays adjustment.

Such a system would trigger entrepreneurial searches for low cost mitigation opportunities in developing countries, because rich countries would want to pay less by lowering emissions abroad.

The reduced requirements resulted mainly from the lower than planned number of hours flown for helicopter operations. The cost estimate for rental of helicopters provided for 15,755 flying hours.

And, because it would be cheaper and easier than carbon cuts, there would be a much greater chance of reaching a genuine, broad based and thus successful international agreement.

As to the issue of data compilation, the experts emphasized the need to maximize the use of information existing in administrative data sources with the aim of reducing costs and the respondents' burden.

According to JPS estimates, cost cutting resulting from these common or coordinated arrangements amounted to over Sw F 1 million in 2002.

Reiterates its request to the Secretary General to make the fullest possible use of facilities and equipment at the United Nations Logistics Base at Brindisi, Italy, in order to minimize the costs of procurement for the Force

In April 2005, experts from Brazil, China and India discussed a proposal to establish an energy service company industry in order to lower substantially economic, social and environmental costs in the energy field.

8. Reiterates its request to the Secretary General to make the fullest possible use of facilities and equipment at the United Nations Logistics Base at Brindisi, Italy, in order to minimize the costs of procurement for the Operation

8. Reiterates its request to the Secretary General to make the fullest possible use of facilities and equipment at the United Nations Logistics Base at Brindisi, Italy, in order to minimize the costs of procurement for the Mission