It had consistently emphasized the importance of strengthening the capacity and role of national staff in United Nations peacekeeping missions, which could lower overhead costs, without decreasing efficiency.

(b) Systematically charging the 13 per cent of programme support costs (overhead) to programmes grants whenever possible.

Likewise, in order to minimize overhead costs, part of the office space was sublet to another United Nations office.

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

These costs are somewhat lower in developing countries.

Staff costs, support costs and operating and other overhead expenses comprised 11.6 per cent, 3.8 per cent and 3.9 per cent, respectively, of the total cost of the project.

IS IS, in contrast, can be tuned for lower overhead in a stable network, the sort more common in ISP than enterprise networks.

We have significantly lower capital costs in our plant equipment.

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.

Requests the Secretary General to review the administrative support structure for the quick impact projects with a view to minimizing overhead costs for their implementation

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

Project funding is not so good, because it has high overhead costs and sometimes does not fit in very well with the priorities of governmental partners.

62 63) As an intermediate stage to that goal, consolidation of the procurement overhead structures and costs of the funds and programmes based at Headquarters (para. 62)

1.171 To meet the emerging standards for business training and business development services (BDS), where all the direct costs of training are met from participation fees and only the overhead and administrative costs are subsidised from donor contributions.

Overhead charge and its use In accordance with the financial procedures (decision 15 CP.1), the Convention budget is required to provide for a 13 per cent overhead charge to the United Nations to cover the costs of the administrative services which the United Nations provides to the Convention.

The Administration informed the Board that support costs and other overhead costs relating to the project should be kept to a minimum, not only during the design and pre construction phases, but also throughout the implementation of the project.

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.

Staffing requirements funded from overhead charges

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.

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

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

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).

Programme support costs (overhead charge) and working capital reserve In accordance with the financial procedures (decision 15 CP.1), the Convention budget is required to provide for 13 per cent of the programme expenditures as overhead charge, and to maintain a working capital reserve of 8.3 per cent of the Convention budget (one month of operating requirements).

A little later I called my mother, only to hear her crying on the phone. The planes are overhead she cried the planes are overhead .

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.

DisplayPort 1.2 has more bandwidth at 21.6 Gbit s (17.28 Gbit s with overhead removed) as opposed to HDMI 2.0's 18 Gbit s (14.4 Gbit s with overhead removed), and DisplayPort 1.3 raises that to 32.4 Gbit s (25.92 Gbit s with overhead removed).

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

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

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

Military choppers keep buzzing overhead in both Jerusalem and Ramallah.

114. Also calls upon the United Nations funds, programmes and specialized agencies to ensure, to the extent possible, that savings resulting from reductions in transaction and overhead costs accrue to development programmes in programme countries

In order to self finance its overhead costs as well as the inter agency services, it needs to win procurement contracts, given that upwards of 80 per cent of its income derives from procurement fees.