Economies of scale and other factors are also important.

As firms consolidate market share, they gain economies of scale.

Economies of scale tend to favour uniform approaches in large scale centralised schemes for the restoration of degraded lands.

In some cases, this would also allow for economies of scale.

Achieving economies of scale and lessening environmental impacts simply are not priorities.

The first option would enable producers everywhere to take advantage of economies of scale.

The EU budget leverages investment, allows for economies of scale, and cannot run a deficit.

It is difficult to overstate the dependence of modern economies on large scale computer systems.

Scale economies in training, procurement and operation and maintenance are key attractions of this approach.

To do so rigidly would lead to duplication of work, inefficiencies and loss of economies of scale.

National defense is an obvious example, as are functions for which economies of scale are important.

As market shares increase, steady progress in lowering costs can be expected to continue through economies of scale.

Moreover, reducing trade barriers between these countries is essential for taking advantage of regional synergies and economies of scale.

Emerging economies scale is growing, and their positioning on the global value chain is shifting rapidly.

The dismantling of the EU s internal borders boosted each country s market size and brought about the predicted economies of scale.

What is astonishing about companies is that they scale sublinearly like biology, indicating that they're dominated, not by super linear innovation and ideas they become dominated by economies of scale.

The development of policy consensus among developing countries at the regional level might facilitate their diffusion by creating economies of scale.

The economies of the developing countries are deteriorating and, in some cases, their citizens are becoming pauperized on a broad scale.

In Europe, clusters of SMEs appear able to achieve economies of scale and scope, and thus to succeed collectively in global markets.

These large scale changes will have to be coordinated, at least informally if not tightly, among the major economies.

The retail sector is characterized by economies of scale and scope as well as vertical integration and the existence of large retail chains.

They include increased competitiveness of firms, knowledge and technology acquisition, market expansion abroad and increased profitability, including as a result of economies of scale.

But the EU can add considerable value by coordinating transnational infrastructure projects, thereby achieving economies of scale and avoiding a duplication of national spending.

But, because indirect taxes are more easily avoided by operating many small units instead of one large unit, economies of scale cannot be realized.

This is a compromise aimed at minimizing the incentive to gamble with public insurance while allowing some economies of scale for banking activities.

Small island developing States have open, small scale economies with limited resources, and are highly dependent on external markets and resources.

There were economies of scale and scope, and financial firms typically like the idea of a one stop (or, at worst, a two stop) shop.

(j) The trends in UNOPS portfolio development illustrate that full cost recovery is best assured from large, complex portfolios that achieve economies of scale.

In the process of multilateral trade liberalization, small and vulnerable economies such as Mauritius were faced with many challenges, ranging from natural imbalances to trade disadvantages, such as supply capacity constraints and the inability to achieve economies of scale.

The objective in establishing the United Nations Office at Nairobi was to strengthen the United Nations presence in Nairobi and to achieve economies of scale.

Given their size and relative isolation, they are unable to achieve economies of scale or enter national and global value chains driven by large transnational corporations.

These can greatly enhance their productivity and growth potential if they network with other firms to address common problems and achieve economies of scale and scope.

In particular, public ownership of land harms the investment incentives for family farms and reduces their chance of consolidating land holdings in order to exploit economies of scale.

So far, China has looked to external markets so that exporters can achieve the economies of scale needed to improve quality and move up the value chain.

Together, these companies invented mail order as the killer app of the railroad age, creating a continental market for consumer goods, with all of the economies of scale that followed.

And, at least until a certain stage of growth, economies of scale and scope beckon, with expansion abroad often the only way to increase size, given already saturated domestic markets.

The study also found that variations of the Pareto exponent are better explained by political variables than by economic geography variables like proxies for economies of scale or transportation costs.

Economies of scale should be taken advantage of in arranging training in conjunction with services provided by regional advisers or consultants to enhance and diversify the skills of subregional office staff.

So if it is those networks and their mathematical structure, unlike biology, which had sublinear scaling, economies of scale, you had the slowing of the pace of life as you get bigger.

Networks of certification systems have been set up to create economies of scale in delivering training to the individual applicants and for marketing purposes (based on the harmonization of the certification processes and criteria).

Newspapers and broadcast organizations, like political parties, were expensive to set up, but, once established, they benefited from economies of scale operating costs remained relatively fixed as circulation (or party membership) grew.

Internationalization through OFDI helped the firm to improve competitiveness, to cope with fluctuations in demand in domestic market, to build a brand, to accelerate growth and to benefit from economies of scale.

Due to the economies of scale that the common market made possible, Nokia was able to exploit its inventions fully, while Germany s Siemens recently decided to give up on the mobile phone market.

Last year, the government merged 12 universities into eight in order to achieve substantial economies of scale, and the Danish parliament approved a nearly 50 increase in government spending on research by 2010.

Conscious of the unique opportunity provided by the Cities Without Slums Initiative mentioned in the Millennium Declaration for realizing economies of scale and substantial multiplier effects in helping to attain the other Millennium Development Goals,