UNOPS management proposes to work out a strategy to address the fundamental problems of income volatility and high fixed costs that characterize the existing organizational arrangements.

Previous reviews of UNOPS have highlighted an inadequate service pricing mechanism, lack of product delivery focus, and structural imbalances in operations, contributing to high fixed costs.

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

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.

The costs can be high.

Costs and financing The cost of supplying water consists, to a very large extent, of fixed costs (capital costs and personnel costs) and only to a small extent of variable costs that depend on the amount of water consumed (mainly energy and chemicals).

They can even capture opportunities if they are able to innovate and show flexibility because of their lower fixed costs.

(b) Within market tolerance, increase managerial flexibility and alignment of structure with demand by converting fixed costs into project based variable costs where feasible, while containing the overall cost structure.

But there are high costs associated with intellectual property.

Meanwhile, high domestic borrowing costs are undermining private investment.

If income is expected to be low (perhaps because of other missing networks), it does not pay to connect a firm or a household to the network, because the fixed costs will not be recouped. Growth is not inclusive because fixed costs deter markets from extending the networks that underpin it.

Keeping a weak banking system afloat has high economic costs.

But these operations are cross subsidising small, under performing portfolios and a high fixed cost base.

The Board notes that a 49 per cent ( 4 million) decrease in change management costs is primarily a response to meet the fixed portion of Atlas costs as well as the reimbursement costs of United Nations agencies, which were not budgeted for.

And, with demand high and housing supply fixed at least in the short run prices go up.

High borrowing costs are needed to focus minds and instill discipline.

Sometimes it might even pose high costs for the alleged beneficiaries.

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

High and rising inflation creates great costs and is difficult to reverse.

But the costs of moving into a non defaulting environment are high.

But, given current progress and high capital costs, this appears overly optimistic.

High transportation and distribution costs can render sections of an economy uncompetitive.

The costs to Governments in terms of capacity and management are high.

This deprivation in turn generates high social costs, including crime, violence, and dependency.

High transit transport costs further deteriorate the market access of landlocked developing countries.

All the factors that encourage high growth remain in place low labor costs, education, high savings, improving infrastructure, and rapid urbanization.

The adjustment might come about through wage increases in countries with lower labor costs, rather than cuts in countries where costs are too high.

Further, Iraq argues that the average treatment costs claimed by Kuwait are too high.

And growth in advanced countries is not sufficient to make serious inroads into high unemployment rates, which are imposing high social costs.

The steady increase in production costs, partly attributable to high borrowing costs, is squeezing enterprises profit margins of small and medium sized enterprises in particular.

For some, that is a price worth paying for others, the costs seem too high.

In other words, force becomes disproportionate when the costs of using it are too high.

The prolonged period of renegotiation now proposed by Cameron implies high costs for both sides.

One problem is that workers have fixed costs, such as transportation to work or a health plan, that do not decline when hours (and thus pay) are cut.

Schools underperform poverty remains high and the resulting high rates of unemployment and crime impose huge financial and social costs on US society.

The combination of high subsidies, historically declining catches, high fuel costs and other factors make longlining unsustainable, inefficient and unprofitable to most fishers.

And the nose is fixed, the whole animal is fixed.

Transport costs for sub regional trade are double that of other developing regions, and high energy costs contribute significantly to the prohibitive cost of doing business.

This apparent paradox is explained by a combination of high corporate saving and low levels of residential and non residential fixed investment.

Noting that, despite some recent initiatives to facilitate and to reduce the costs of remittances transfers, the costs incurred by migrants remain high and could be reduced,

Capacity building of the PPAF will support operating costs, staff training, technical assistance for various studies and cost of fixed assets. The Fund has a special focus on women.

Many bloggers questioned the high costs of the event, pointing out how environmentally unfriendly it was.

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While UNOPS will undertake measures to streamline its business processes and cut fixed costs, option 2 will require a more diverse UNOPS structure and more dispersed operations than option one.