It creates cost control and cost reduction pressures from the start, leading to greater efficiency.

Facilitation and reduction of the cost of transfer of migrant remittances

Consultations and participation in national poverty reduction efforts

60 206. Facilitation and reduction of the cost of transfer of migrant remittances

This may require further relocation of certain functions to more economic cost centres, as well as the aggressive reduction of the cost base.

As a participant in the International Strategy for Disaster Reduction, IFRC viewed risk and vulnerability reduction not as a cost, but as an investment.

Feldstein calculates that the one time cost of principal reduction would be around 350 billion.

The high level of income inequality requires specific poverty reduction efforts.

One child participant called for poverty reduction efforts to target children.

Applications and initiatives to support disaster reduction and management and humanitarian efforts

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

The estimated level of support cost income shows a reduction when compared with estimates for the previous biennium.

Flexible land policies could facilitate cost effective and productive use of land contributing to economic development and poverty reduction.

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

Insufficient attention to rural development continues to undermine poverty reduction efforts in the subregion.

To document indigenous and tribal peoples' own perceptions of poverty and poverty reduction strategies and existing gaps, similarities and contradictions with national poverty reduction efforts.

Three objectives should be targeted low cost alternatives to fossil fuels, greater energy efficiency, and reduction of carbon dioxide emissions.

At the same time, the durable viability of UNOPS will require a reduction in the cost base of its operations.

We are also proposing in the General Assembly a reduction in the cost of international money remittances from migrant workers.

To develop recommendations on indigenous and tribal peoples' consultation and participation in poverty reduction efforts.

It also stressed the importance of South South cooperation in scaling up poverty reduction efforts.

This made generalization difficult. The main drivers of OFDI included system escape, the search for market and efficiency, and cost reduction.

Welcoming the ongoing efforts aimed at the reduction of nuclear weapons related materials deployed within the framework of international cooperation, such as the Cooperative Threat Reduction programme,

The secretariat of the International Strategy for Disaster Reduction is coordinating strategic guidelines to support national and regional efforts through the Inter Agency Task Force on Disaster Reduction.

Even if we managed at very high cost a significant reduction, we would achieve only a slightly slower rise in global temperatures.

The reduction in global temperature would not be measurable in a hundred years, yet the cost would be significant and payable now.

In medical aerosols, the potential for reduction is limited due to medical constraints, low emission levels and the high cost of alternatives.

Countries departing for the northern euro should make a one time contribution to these debt reduction efforts.

Expanding rural water supply, together with sanitation, must be considered as integral to broader poverty reduction efforts.

Estimates suggest that using carbon taxes to achieve a further 330 Mt CO2 reduction in the EU would cost 250 billion per year.

Eliminating the purchase of air time on radio and television during campaigns, with the consequent reduction in their cost, would complement these changes.

Reiterating also that activities to be funded should be country driven, cost effective and integrated into national sustainable development and poverty reduction strategies,

Developing country SMEs were more likely to be motivated by cost reduction factors and factors related to personal relationships, ethnicity and social connections.

At the national level, it involved the whole population in efforts such as poverty reduction and environmental protection.

Welcoming the efforts undertaken in preparation for the World Conference on Disaster Reduction, to be held in Kobe, Japan, from 18 to 22 January 2005, and underlining the importance of this conference in the promotion of new efforts in the field of disaster risk reduction,

We should also develop information sharing mechanisms on disaster reduction programmes and initiatives, good practices, and disaster reduction technologies so that the international community can share the results of these efforts.

Considering the FAO s conservative definition of chronic severe hunger, this is a serious indictment of global poverty reduction efforts.

Despite all efforts, however, the previous year had not seen a substantial reduction of conflict induced internally displaced persons.

Given the low cost and the huge benefits of supporting such efforts, there is no excuse for inaction.

The Great Victory was achieved at the cost of untold efforts by peoples and of unfulfilled human lives.

Now, global warming is real, and cutting CO2 is a good idea when the reduction cost is lower than that of the damage it prevents.

The higher the cost of oil, the lower the dollar has to be to achieve any given reduction in the size of the trade deficit.

Some progress is being made towards overcoming vulnerability to natural hazards by integrating disaster reduction measures into development strategies. Those efforts involve linking climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction, as well as ensuring that implementation of the Millennium Development Goals supports disaster risk reduction.

Encourages all stakeholders to strengthen measures for global demand reduction, thereby enhancing efforts to combat illicit drug production and trafficking

To give recommendations for follow up to ensure the consultation and participation of indigenous peoples in national poverty reduction efforts.