UNOPS will quickly reduce its fixed cost structural base, with most changes to be completed in 2006.

Any future course of action will need to address pricing accuracy and reduce the high fixed cost base.

While continuing to provide a range of service lines, UNOPS will rationalize and streamline its corporate and support structures to reduce its fixed cost base, introduce activity based costing, and price its services to ensure full cost recovery.

United Nations reimbursement cost increases are calculated on the 2005 base.

This may require further relocation of certain functions to more economic cost centres, as well as the aggressive reduction of the cost base.

There are two ways to reduce the government s health care outlays reduce the amount of health care the government buys, or reduce the cost of health care.

Unlike New Zealand, Australia declined to contribute to the cost of the base at Singapore.

At the other end of the spectrum, many small, transaction intensive portfolios contribute little to the revenue base while adding disproportionately to the fixed cost base.

But these operations are cross subsidising small, under performing portfolios and a high fixed cost base.

(f) Request that UNOPS present to the September 2005 session of the Board a report on further measures to be taken in 2006 to implement the corporate strategy, enhance the efficiency of business operations and reduce the cost base of UNOPS.

The challenge, then, is to reduce our current reliance on fossil and nuclear fuels for base load power.

Official policy aims to reduce the cost of globalization for individuals, but never for companies.

Make use of a base of indicators for tracking the success of programmes and projects to reduce gender disparities.

United Nations reimbursement cost increases are calculated on the 2005 base, although these may be reduced over time.

The use of market standards would facilitate and reduce the cost of future global system integration.

Very Small Aperture Terminal (VSAT) satellites may increase the availability of bandwidth and reduce its cost.

The primary purpose of the Reference Mission was to stimulate further thought and development of alternative approaches, which can improve effectiveness, reduce risks, and reduce cost.

The results also reflected China s declining attractiveness as a base for product assembly, low cost manufacturing, and parts production.

Both scenarios entail reduction of the fixed cost base of UNOPS and the introduction of new service pricing mechanisms.

At the same time, the durable viability of UNOPS will require a reduction in the cost base of its operations.

Furthermore, to keep operating expenditures under control UNOPS must reorganize its internal operations and restructure its cost base in 2006.

Common to both options is the need to promptly implement a series of measures to cut UNOPS fixed cost base.

This would reduce the probability of crises while putting in place mechanisms for cost sharing should they occur.

Even those Chinese households that do not buy imported goods would benefit, because the lower cost of imported raw materials would reduce the cost of goods produced in China.

An obvious question is whether the government can do anything to speed the restructuring process or reduce its cost.

Of course, this is no direct cost to public budgets (the total cost of bank rescue packages is much lower), but this lost output is the cost that matters most when considering how to reduce the frequency of crises.

Higher interest rates to reduce the housing boom seem, even in retrospect, ill advised if the cost is mass unemployment.

Invest in improving infrastructural facilities and networking among developing countries to facilitate trade and reduce the cost of doing business.

The Government was working to increase the supply and reduce the cost of childcare, which helped women to continue to work.

The challenge, then, is to reduce our current reliance on fossil and nuclear fuels for base load power. The answer may be under our feet.

But if you ask me, what will it cost for one MIPS of computing in 2010, or the cost to sequence a base pair of DNA in 2012, or the cost of sending a megabyte of data wirelessly in 2014, it turns out that those are very predictable.

Increasing the cost of electricity and fuel will hurt productivity, reduce overall employment, and cut the amount of disposable income that people have.

Interestingly, software may itself reduce the cost of expanding educational access witness the massive open online courses (MOOCs) offered by companies like Coursera.

The building of new railway base tunnels through the Alps is under way to reduce the time of travel between north and south through the AlpTransit project.

In a push to reduce the cost of borrowing, the Fed purchased long term assets in the market, injecting liquidity into the financial system.

Trade facilitation can reduce the overall cost of international trade transactions through the internationally agreed alignment of key trade and transport procedures and documents.

The marginally useful Committee on Conferences should be eliminated, and the Secretariat must exploit technological advances to reduce the number and cost of meetings.

This base was called Base Marret.

Indeed, investment banks like Goldman Sachs and Barclays Capital are already inventing new types of securities to reduce the capital cost of holding risky assets.

(a) The availability and cost of chemical substitutes and of alternative technologies to reduce the emissions of ozonemodifying substances and related planned and ongoing research

Approves the cost estimates for the United Nations Logistics Base at Brindisi amounting to ___________ United States dollars for the period from 1 July 2005 to 30 June 2006

And, third, growth in the embryonic services sector, which currently accounts for just 43 of the country s GDP, broadens China s economic base, creating a significant opportunity to reduce income inequality.

There were also joint efforts to ensure the sustainable management of the resources of Lake Victoria, improve navigation safety and reduce the high cost of transportation.

Approves the cost estimates for the United Nations Logistics Base at Brindisi amounting to 31,513,100 United States dollars for the period from 1 July 2005 to 30 June 2006

Bearing in mind that the Parties operating under paragraph 1 of Article 5 must reduce by 2005 consumption of carbon tetrachloride by 85 per cent with respect to their base line,