We have significantly lower capital costs in our plant equipment.

Technical options for waste water treatment range from capital intensive conventional treatment systems to alternative systems with lower capital costs.

Better repayment prospects and lower regulatory capital costs then fuel the asset based financing of further acquisition of assets.

Common staff costs were lower than in 2002 for reasons of lower staff turnover.

These costs are somewhat lower in developing countries.

The other thing is that we ve got much lower costs.

What African farmer, despite his lower initial costs, can compete?

As seen from table 7, the lower labour costs in developing countries and countries in transition more than offset lower labour productivity, resulting in production costs that are significantly lower in these countries than in developed countries.

Field operating costs have been reduced by 1,147,800 and the new staffing structure resulted in lower staff costs.

(d) Simplification of the administration of transaction and lower transaction costs.

Lower transaction costs mean that exchange can be dramatically more fine grained.

Nor do these findings suggest that capital controls have no costs.

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

That experience showed that countries default when the costs are lower than the benefits.

Capital controls have real costs, even if they fail to stanch inflows.

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

Third, government could assume part of a mortgage, taking advantage of its lower borrowing costs.

Labor costs in the US industrial sector are currently 25 lower than the European average.

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

The estimated costs for the Sixth Review Conference reflect the maximum duration identified for that meeting a shorter duration would result in lower costs.

South African firms have used their relatively lower cost of capital to invest in other African countries where capital markets were not developed.

In addition, the capital master plan would continue to incur more support costs and other operating costs on account of prolonged delays.

Europeans would benefit directly through improved Internet access, lower energy costs, and more efficient transport links.

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

(e) Deployment of fewer than projected vehicles resulting in lower costs for petrol, oil and lubricants

Cooperation with affiliate firms to reduce transaction costs in sourcing, capital acquisition, and contracts

At a time when bank capital is scarce, that impediment carries significant economic costs.

But the lion s share of these investments result in lower energy usage, and thus reduced energy costs.

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).

Furthermore, the reductions under common staff costs reflect both the realized vacancy rates described above and the lower than budgeted actual rate of common staff costs ( 5,526,400).

The General Fund and Working Capital Fund now show only UNIDO's contribution to BMS costs.

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.

Today, the costs of manufacturing such items are lower in countries like Bangladesh and Vietnam than in Guangdong.

debt service coverage reduces the financial risk to investors and translates into lower borrowing costs for the borrower.

The competitive pressure to lower production costs has also influenced the geographical destinations of these SMEs from Singapore.

Adequate private insurance can be boosted in the future through public education, improved insurance institutions, and lower insurance costs.

Other restrictions in domestic Internet markets often make it difficult for ISPs in developing countries to lower their costs.

The capital expenditure costs are then amortized or depreciated over the life of the asset in question.

Lower financing costs for public debt appear to be a net gain to society, because the government then saves on debt service and can keep taxes lower. But any gains from lower taxes are more than offset by the losses to the private sector, which, facing higher financing costs, will invest less, in turn lowering economic growth and thus reducing government revenues.

As enterprises seek to reduce operational costs, they have the option to outsource non core activities to countries that can provide a high level of service with much lower labour costs.

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

Labor and many product markets remain closed, despite the urgent need to increase competition, lower production costs, and raise productivity.

The fundamental problem for Greece is its bloated fiscal commitments, enabled by lower borrowing costs when it joined the euro.

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

The latter course risks the worst of all worlds all of the costs of capital controls and all of the domestic policy complications from volatile capital flows, but few of the potential benefits of foreign capital.