High vacancy rates

Vacancy rates and staffing

Given the current low vacancy rates for Professional staff, there would not be a large number of posts available for redeployment.

Nevertheless, the Tribunal will review the vacancy rates on a regular basis.

Low school enrolment rates.

(e) The experiment shall not exacerbate high vacancy rates in any budget sections

The freeze has had a negative impact on efforts to reduce vacancy rates.

How Long for Low Rates?

Interest rates are already low.

Schedule 8 of A 60 572 contains information on average vacancy rates by budget section.

The Long Mystery of Low Interest Rates

The Committee acknowledges the efforts made to decrease the vacancy rates in ONUB during 2004 05.

The Committee commends ONUB for significantly decreasing its vacancy rates within a five month time period.

The Advisory Committee trusts that the mission will continue to monitor its civilian staff vacancy rates.

8. Decides also to approve 9.9 million dollars for realized vacancy rates in 2002 and to consider the actual realized vacancy rates for 2003 in the context of the second performance report on the programme budget for the biennium 2002 2003

Do Low Interest Rates Ensure High Asset Prices?

Interest rates on government debt are still low.

Low interest rates did not cause the bubbles.

Their thinking and the Fed s follows the misguided calculus that if low rates are good for jobs, ultra low rates must be even better.

The Group of African States also found it unacceptable that vacancy rates, particularly in Africa, remained so high.

The end July 2005 vacancy information reflects a General Service vacancy rate of 5.7 per cent, a rate which is still substantially higher than the rates for 2004 and prior years.

Continued monetary easing via very low Federal Funds rates

Ultra low interest rates may persist for some time.

In an environment of ultra low interest rates, the economic cost of being late is low.

In fact, any savings realized as the result of high vacancy rates would have been returned to Member States.

As the Office of Internal Oversight Services stated, duty stations with high vacancy rates had scarcely benefited from it.

Such adjustments reflect, in particular, the fluctuations in vacancy rates and standard costs, inflation and exchange rates as compared with the assumptions used for establishing the approved budget.

Back then, Europeans complained that low interest rates in America were driving global inflation now low US interest rates are blamed for driving irresponsible asset price booms.

Germany, Britain, and Japan all have similarly low long rates.

So, if inflation is low and stable, central banks cannot be blamed for low long term rates.

(d) Measures to ensure that such a policy will not have any negative impact on sections with high vacancy rates

A summary of posts, incumbency levels and vacancy rates as at 30 September 2005 is provided in the table below.

b In view of the prevailing vacancy rates, provision for additional personnel will be accommodated from within currently approved resources.

Consistently higher than standard vacancy rates have been experienced by the Office of the Prosecutor during the biennium 2004 2005.

Although the staffing proposals had been defended on the grounds that currently approved resources could accommodate them because vacancy rates were high, that reasoning neither excused poor budget practices, nor took account of the fact that savings generated by high vacancy rates must be returned to the Member States.

Politicians will not sit quietly, however, if the Fed attempts to raise rates. Their thinking and the Fed s follows the misguided calculus that if low rates are good for jobs, ultra low rates must be even better.

Inflation convergence between high headline and low core rates, as well as between high emerging market and low advanced country rates will occur at levels higher than currently anticipated.

Low income rates have also been on the decline for those groups more likely to experience low income.

(c) Mobility has a positive impact in filling existing high vacancy rates at some United Nations duty stations and regional commissions

The Advisory Committee's recommendations with regard to the financing of MINURSO included a reduction related to budgeted vacancy delayed deployment rates.

The Peacekeeping Service undertook a number of audits, including of procurement, vacancy rates and the state of discipline at various missions.

Requirements for additional civilian police personnel are to be accommodated from within currently approved resources, in view of prevailing vacancy rates.

The Advisory Committee was informed that the Tribunal had made every effort to improve vacancy rates during the biennium 2004 2005.

The Committee also noted that the proposed vacancy rates for General Service for 2006 2007 anticipate the lifting of the suspension.

The Committee notes from the supplementary information that the vacancy rates of civilian personnel as at 31 August 2005 were as follows