(iii) Deliver value for money outputs and services

The value for money question is even more difficult to assess.

Nowadays, every North Korean seems to like money and know its value.

Merit and skills are how we give an intrinsic value to money.

Health care costs in the US are exorbitant, with low value for money.

It is used in assessing the value for money of a medical intervention.

First, they can improve value for money (in that better value for money can be achieved through a competitive market price, and substantial cost savings can be realized through dynamic and real time trading).

In the past, metallic money provided an inconvenient and unsatisfactory solution to the question of value.

Moreover, metallic money was prone to unpredictable shifts in value with the discovery of new supplies.

These six international banks alone accounted for nearly 20 of the prime money market funds value.

That money must come from higher taxes, from eroding the real value of money balances and government debt through inflation, or from outright default and debt restructuring.

The error is called the money illusion the belief that a nominal unit of currency is the best measure of value, even though its real value is unstable.

But if it resulted from an increase in demand, the value of money will increase, which means deflation.

The law should provide that a person in possession of money holds the money free of a security right in the money if that person gives value for the money or has no knowledge that the transfer of the money to that person violates the terms of the security agreement.

We must value a sense of moderation and modesty instead of an unquenchable greed for money, prestige, and consumption.

If this increase resulted from an increase in supply, the value of money will go down, which means inflation.

In developing countries, as regards fresh food, traditional markets tend to be cheaper and offer better value for money.

Unfortunately, monetary policymakers effort to operationalize the objective of ensuring that the value of money remains stable has taken on a life of its own. Today s economics textbooks assume that a primary objective of central banks is to stabilize consumer prices, rather than the value of money.

Now they see the current crisis as a vindication of the value of not spending money that you don t have.

Comment by the Administration. UNDP considers value for money a key criterion in the review and approval of all contracts.

(f) Improve transparency and value for money by introducing activity based costing techniques, to be rolled out systematically in 2006.

It means betting against an asset with borrowed money in the expectation of making a profit when its value goes down.

Ideally, bank creditors would not lose money, because their fixed interest claims would be converted into bank shares of similar value.

The Reserve Fund, a well established money market fund with too many unpaid IOUs from Lehman, could not keep its value steady.

In the past, metallic money provided an inconvenient and unsatisfactory solution to the question of value. It was inconvenient because gold was awkward for everyday transactions, and silver had too little value for major transfers.

One justification for capital controls is to prevent inflows of hot money from boosting the value of the home currency excessively, thereby undermining competitiveness.

While companies (and some people) seek attention because they expect to earn money through it, many individuals value attention as something that is intrinsically desirable.

Meanwhile, the dollar s falling value reflects the fact that the Fed is pumping more money into the system than are most of its trading partners.

Many reviewers criticized the lack of Bluetooth, since it was a music phone, but acknowledged the high quality music output and the value for money.

Under these circumstances, the Organization will continue to provide its services in a focused, prioritized and integrated manner in order to maximize value for money.

Reducing transfer costs, which average an estimated 9 of the value of transactions, would put more money into the hands of those who need it most.

We have lived in a purely fiat money system ever since meaning that our money s value is not backed by gold or any other physical item.

Entrepreneurs tend to go where the money is, but their companies stay and provide value (and jobs) where they can find good customers and good employees.

The Federal Reserve, seeking to stem the growing panic and stabilize the American and international banking system, promptly guaranteed the value of all money market funds.

UNOPS is committed to improving quality of services and value for money, while progress on United Nations reform may motivate other organizations to use UNOPS services.

One approach centers on prices, with the consumer price index appearing to be the most obvious indicator. The problem is that the relationship between the money supply (which ultimately determines the value of money) and prices is an unstable one.

The radical case is that the pre crisis economy crashed not because of preventable mistakes in banking, but because money had become the sole arbiter of value.

For a given supply of money, an increase in the production of goods will increase the value of a currency, because each unit will buy more goods.

The use of PbR models is often promoted as a way to drive service improvements and achieve increased value for money by aligning incentives to desired outcomes.

In his 1908 essay Der moderne Denkmalkultus (The modern cult of monuments) he describes historical value, artistic value, age value, commemorative value, use value, and newness value.

The politicians prefer to postpone the inevitable by putting public money where private money will no longer go, because doing so allows creditors to maintain the fiction that the accounting value of the Greek bonds that they hold need not be reduced.

While Keynes had focused on the value stability of currency, with the resulting panics based on an insufficient money supply leading to alternate currency and collapse, then Friedman focused on price stability, which is the equilibrium between supply and demand for money.

Wartime inflation destroyed stability in the Russian empire in 1917, as farmers, worried about the declining value of their money, hoarded their output and let the cities starve.

1.184 To implement further reforms in the areas of procurement and logistics, ICT, construction and engineering to ensure that the provision of services achieves best value for money.

For starters, the lag time between changes in the money supply and price movements is long, variable, and unpredictable. Given this, targeting consumer prices in the next 2 3 years will not guarantee that the value of money remains stable in the long term.