Those 13 steps continue to be the performance benchmark for the disarmament process.

Benchmark for each disk

Staffing has proceeded slowly, but there is scope for this benchmark soon to be met.

The census allows Australia to benchmark itself internationally.

It should be a benchmark in the ongoing work on violence against women and pave the way forward.

We believe that those 13 practical steps continue to be the performance benchmark for the nuclear disarmament process.

Peace and security in Darfur should be an essential benchmark for normalized relations between the US and Sudan.

iii. Benchmark for Women in senior positions'

As from 2004, independent companies will also be able to assess their own results against this benchmark.

Such staffing has proceeded slowly, but it is hoped that this benchmark will be met early in 2005.

The benchmark for this study is admittedly far from ideal.

Part of the Mixed' project is developing an international benchmark.

In such systems, the government directly controls the benchmark interest rates.

(a) Establishing appropriate benchmark indices, proportions and performance targets

The next benchmark for the negotiation is the Sixth Ministerial Conference, to be held in December this year in Hong Kong, China.

(i) To benchmark OIOS against similar audit and oversight bodies

In that regard, the plans and priorities of individual countries were the basic benchmark against which coherence and effectiveness must be defined and measured.

Source K. Zandvliet, Women in senior positions, developing a benchmark, The Hague, 2003.

But policymakers continued to benchmark recovery prospects to pre crisis growth performance.

Given this shortfall, the benchmark of 9,500 trained police officers in the Sierra Leone police by the end of 2005 is not expected to be met.

(f) The strategy to continuously benchmark the performance of OIOS against other such service providers.

WP Activity 8 Evaluate the state of the art of common benchmark and indicator systems

The next step is the Women in senior positions' benchmark, which is currently being developed.

Government intervention in benchmark prices can be justified in the name of macroeconomic management or regulatory action to improve the provision of public goods and services.

I have been tracking these so called benchmark revisions for about 40 years.

The government (the visible hand) sets the benchmark price for risk free financial assets through monetary policy and control over fiscal deficits, while the market (the invisible hand) sets the risk premia of risky assets above the benchmark rate.

For now, however, the high unemployment of the past several years should be mainly attributed to the financial crisis, and should ultimately retreat toward historical benchmark levels.

The group targeted June 2005 as a benchmark date in their preparations for COP 7.

Almost everywhere in the world, the TRC is regarded highly and considered a benchmark against which other efforts to move from dictatorship to democracy must be judged.

Subtract 2.5 for inflation, and you get a benchmark expected real return of 1.26 .

Third, benchmark interest rates are already near zero, and have been for a while.

We remain open to considering all proposals and will evaluate them against that benchmark.

The summit has endorsed the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) as the benchmark of progress towards that objective.

The last remaining technical benchmark was the requirement for 65 per cent staffing of State defence institutions.

What a real revolution it would be if the Western democracies did indeed begin to frame their foreign policies with human rights and democratic processes as their benchmark.

If the Washington Fiscal Consensus proves correct, when benchmark rates eventually edge upwards, they will move slowly.

UNICEF agrees with the issue of electronic procurement and notes that the best benchmark for measuring progress would be other public procurement organizations that have been successfully implementing e procurement.

When Chinese seek a benchmark model for social protection, they go on study trips to Scandinavia.

Just as Spain (not Germany) remains the benchmark in European football, so Europe speaks broken English at best.

This should serve as an environmental benchmark for future agreements including with the US, despite some American constituencies expectations that EU standards could be relaxed in a bilateral trade deal.

The fundamental benchmark interest rates in modern financial markets are the so called risk free rates on government bonds.

The first benchmark report was presented to parliament in April 2003, the objective being to devise points of reference.

But the system rests on the assumption that the government will set accurate benchmark interest rates for risk free assets.

Benchmarks used include the benchmark prices established by the Inter Agency Procurement Services Office and the consultancy fees being charged.

While cross border capital flows and interest and exchange rates must be liberalized to maintain economic development, such reforms raise the risk of asset bubbles if implemented under distorted benchmark prices.