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

For farmers, this means higher costs for seed corporations, higher profits.

The yen s weakening will mean higher import costs, and therefore a higher rate of inflation.

These new rules have certainly pushed transaction costs higher.

Studies show that benefits are higher than the costs.

Higher debt service costs require higher tax rates, which in turn weaken incentives and reduce economic growth.

So, if a breakup is unavoidable, delaying it implies much higher costs.

The benefits are between 28 and 220 times higher than the costs.

In some countries administrative costs were higher than spending on poverty reductions.

The benefits of higher recycling rates would surely offset the associated administrative costs.

But even higher upfront costs are quickly paid for with cheaper utility bills.

Benefits are estimated to end up about six times higher than the costs.

For consumers, the costs are in terms of higher prices and less variety.

Lower productivity and higher unit labor costs eroded firms' willingness to hire, leaving Europe with chronically higher unemployment than in the US.

How is this possible? After all, higher productivity should bring lower unit labor costs.

In that case, the costs tomorrow would be far higher than the savings today.

Production costs in other heavily indebted countries were 20 25 higher than in Germany.

Non investment costs had been higher in the past, although they had not included agency support costs, and he noted that most of those non investment costs had already been approved.

The higher requirement under common staff costs is attributable to service and family allowances being charged to common staff costs but budgeted under international staff salaries, combined with a higher percentage of international staff holding 100 series appointments.

However, it should be noted that all United Nations organizations in Bonn will face higher operating costs at the new premises, particularly for electricity, relating to increases in basic office size, lifts, air conditioning and generally higher energy costs.

After all, they either sell the property or pass on the higher utility costs to tenants.

As costs surge, Chinese producers are seeking higher value, new niches, and more influence over policymaking.

It is no secret that sovereign bonds carry significantly higher borrowing costs than concessional debt does.

Higher import costs and lower export earnings combined to reduce the competitiveness of landlocked developing countries.

The economic benefits, estimated to be between five and nineteen times higher than the costs, are dramatic.

At the same time, higher agricultural production must be balanced against the associated ecological and social costs.

Not taking action now will aggravate environmental impacts and will make the socio economic costs even higher.

This is much more difficult for small and medium sized organisations, as the costs are relatively higher.

Yet the benefits of a successful Doha round are between 45 and 440 times higher than these costs.

When we talk about the environment, we know tougher restrictions will mean better protection, but with higher costs.

The higher requirements relate to the self sustainment costs of the additional infantry battalion and formed police unit.

In countries with higher price growth than in Germany, but with the same borrowing costs, this cannot produce anything but overheating, higher inflation, and even lower real interest rates.

Given scarce public funds and fiscal constraints, to increase spending, users must cover a higher share of the costs.

The higher requirements are due to the self sustainment costs of the additional infantry battalion and formed police unit.

Market saturation, higher production costs and the need to secure natural resources pushed South African firms to go abroad.

In introducing the item, the representative of the UNCTAD secretariat said that today, for most developing countries' exports, transport costs had a higher incidence on overall transaction costs than customs duties.

First, with respect to the new United Nations Campus, the various United Nations organizations are expected to bear additional operating costs, largely relating to higher utility costs and shared common costs, resulting in part from new United Nations wide security directives.

For that reason, rural students' access to higher learning institutions is limited by economic considerations, because housing rental costs in Dushanbe are considerably higher than the amount received in a scholarship.

Delegations expressed concerns about the possibility of higher costs for immunization because of higher prices of new vaccines and encouraged UNICEF to continue its efforts to increase access to affordable vaccines.

Thus, they run the risk that a spike in interest rates would feed back relatively quickly into higher borrowing costs.

However, the revenues will almost certainly be lower, and the costs higher, than calculations used to promote them would imply.

The result is large re enlistment bonuses, improved benefits, and higher recruiting costs up 20 just from 2003 to 2005.

Another aspect of the increased security related costs is the higher contribution level to joint activities with United Nations bodies.

If making a product in the EU costs more because of higher energy costs, the product will likely be made somewhere else, where energy is cheaper, and then imported into the EU.

How to finance the resulting higher operating costs of the health sector (can this be done through donor financing that would fund administrative and operating costs over the medium to long term?