Yet, despite increasing economic costs, Iran s response only hardened.

Likewise, increasing pressure from growing labor costs will force enterprises to lower their profit expectations and cut costs, negatively affecting output growth and employment in the short run.

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

In particular, corruption hinders economic growth and investment by increasing transaction costs, thus diverting public funds from their planned allocation.

Third, despite some significant improvements, major deficiencies in the coverage and quality of infrastructure are clearly affecting competitiveness and increasing costs.

Privatization and liberalization have produced mixed results, either increasing prices for the poor or entailing other adjustment costs (e.g. loss of employment).

As a result, the number of participants in educational institutions, as well as the absolute and relative costs of these institutions, is increasing.

Kenyan entrepreneurs have used fairly inexpensive technology to successfully organize online auctions for coffee, increasing their reach and reducing their costs of sale.

At the beginning of 2005, the designs were further revised with the view to reducing the construction and operation costs, while increasing the function.

When the difference between borrowing costs and growth becomes too large, the primary budget surpluses required to stop debt from increasing become impossible to achieve.

Other countries, by contrast, face ruinously high borrowing costs, which are simultaneously increasing the scale of their reform challenges and narrowing their political scope to address them.

Approves a supplementary budget appropriation of 3 million to cover additional security related costs in the 2004 2005 biennial support budget (E ICEF 2005 AB L.7), thus increasing from 14 million to 17 million the security related costs for the biennium.

It is not difficult to identify who would bear what costs if the US did not pay or if it disrupted markets by not increasing its debt ceiling.

Most cities are increasingly installing Automatic Meter Reading (AMR) systems to prevent fraud, to lower ever increasing labor and liability costs and to improve customer service and satisfaction.

The costs of operating, maintaining and repairing the buildings and their integrated installations are increasing with the ageing of the complex, which was constructed between 1974 and 1979.

The equipment of United States manufacture which was part of the platform hired had to be replaced as its use was not authorized, causing delays and increasing costs.

They stress that outsourcing cuts costs just like a technological change that improves productivity, thus increasing profits and what is good for profits must be good for the American economy.

More broadly, there is increasing recognition that the patent system, as currently designed, not only imposes untold social costs, but also fails to maximize innovation as Myriad s gene patents demonstrate.

There was widespread support for efforts that could be made to assist in measuring performance within an organization's procurement function as well as determining costs of procurement, thereby increasing efficiency and effectiveness.

Iran seeks compensation for expenses incurred in treating these additional cases indirect costs such as transportation costs costs incurred by caregivers opportunity costs and costs of future medical care.

Increasing labor market flexibility by reducing the costs of shedding workers will lead in the short run to more layoffs in the public and private sector, exacerbating the fall in incomes and demand.

If the ball costs 10, the bat costs...

(d) Building on linkages between occupational and public health. Concern about increasing environmental contamination is leading to the realization that industrial threats to worker health are directly linked to public health issues and costs.

Due to the relatively high costs and risks at the initial stage, there is an increasing need for these SMEs to be assisted in the use of ICT tools, in particular e business tools.

But the long term prognosis made especially dire by health care reform s inability to make much of a dent in rising medical costs is sufficiently bleak that there is increasing bipartisan momentum to do something.

Increasing transparency

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

For example, food prices are increasing alongside soaring oil prices, partly because of increased production costs, but also because farmland in the United States and elsewhere is being converted from food production to bio fuel production.

At the same time, inasmuch as laws and regulations often fail to meet the intended social objectives, they may harm the business environment through imposing unnecessary costs, increasing uncertainty and risks and erecting barriers to competition.

Methodologies used to calculate costs Staff costs Salary and common staff costs The standard costs (in United States dollars) applied in determining staff costs in the proposed budget are based on actual salary costs for the first three months of 2005, and adjusted for step increments in 2006 2007.

Operating costs

Operational costs

Administrative costs

Investment costs

Audit costs

Operational costs

If the PBC started to buy non dollar assets in large quantities, it would invariably need to convert some current dollar assets into another currency, which would inevitably drive up that currency s value, thus increasing the PBC s costs.

After all, human knowledge is increasing. We can see this concretely in the development and declining costs of new medicines like HIV drugs, and in the creation of new seeds that allow poor farmers to be more productive.

Increasing span lengths increases the usable unencumbered floorspace in buildings diminishing the number of joints leads to lower maintenance costs over the design life of a building, since joints are the major focus of weakness in concrete buildings.

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).

In the United States, North America, much more expensive. Legal costs, medical costs ...

The three central objectives of streamlining the complex rules and procedures with a view to reducing transaction costs, improving financial and programme results, and increasing the impact and the sustainability of development activities should be pursued with greater vigour.

This amount was inclusive of extrabudgetary costs amounting to 642,400 to be funded by a number of member organizations and comprised 35,671,100 for administrative costs, 43,014,100 for investment costs and 1,443,200 for audit costs.

Increasing aid to Africa

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