But that doesn t mean that religion should be discounted.

Of course, the boom s costs should not be discounted.

Saudi Arabia uses a discounted square kilometre year metric to express the quantum of its losses, and it states that the total losses are between approximately 2,300 and 3,600 discounted square kilometre years.

But the Chinese public soon discounted the value of these political set pieces.

So the possibility of demonstrations, stalemate, and a new crisis cannot be discounted.

With tensions between Israel and Iran, Hezbollah s patron, unresolved, this fear cannot be discounted.

The lending of the international institutions might also be used for buying back discounted debt.

She rewarded aspirational members of the working class by selling off council houses at discounted prices.

At what rate should future impacts particularly losses of future consumption be discounted to the present?

In order to enjoy the lower rates, the house must be on a special electricity tariff.

Saskatchewan has maintained basic benefit rates since 2000 and increased the rates for a number of special needs items, focussing on those that support employment and persons with disabilities.

To do its calculation, Interbrand estimates brand value on the basis of projected profits discounted to a present value.

Obviously, none of this will please Thaksin s opponents. So the possibility of demonstrations, stalemate, and a new crisis cannot be discounted.

The minister discounted her vote, saying that, though she was a member of the church, she was not a voting member.

Special European facilities, along with the IMF, lend money at below market interest rates, which reduces the extent of austerity required.

Moreover, the Commission discounted the possibility of either establishing an ad hoc international tribunal or expanding the mandate of an existing tribunal.

Education Rates, Attendance Rates and Drop Out Rates

On that basis, Kuwait states that the net present value of damage to its shoreline resources amounts to 1,402.6 discounted service hectare years ( DSHY ).

Birth Rates and Fertility Rates

It is most often used in multi stage discounted cash flow analysis, and allows for the limitation of cash flow projections to a several year period.

Secondly, the conclusions drawn by the State party as a result of its visits should be discounted because they took place in circumstances that were unsatisfactory.

Reduced rates of return will lower investment rates.

Today, the smart money in financial markets takes a long term view that asset prices are for the most part rational expectations of discounted future fundamental values.

It was the willingness of some large financial institutions to trade in discounted debt that established a market that could clear out the legacy of past mistakes.

With so much of the monetary divergence now discounted, perhaps we should focus more attention on the other factors that could influence currency movements in the months ahead.

In paragraph 170 of its report, the Board recommended that UNICEF further (a) clarify its policy regarding family duty stations included in the special operations approach and (b) document and monitor decisions on special operations living allowances areas and rates.

Proposals for bond exchanges at par, quasi par or discounted values were divided in two scenarios, depending on whether bond holder participation was below or above 70 per cent.

Overall, computer penetration rates are very similar to Internet penetration rates.

Interest Rates

Dropout rates

Rather than giving away bed nets, rich country organizations like the United States Agency for International Development try to sell them to the extreme poor, albeit at heavily discounted prices.

This provides a future value at the end of Year N. The terminal value is then discounted using a factor equal to the number of years in the projection period.

For that reason, we need to create special lending arrangements for landlocked developing countries, ensuring them differential treatment in areas such as lower interest rates and longer grace periods.

As inequality rises, consumption rates generally drop and savings rates generally rise.

However, these high rates may be affected by increasing rates of detection.

Second, China s central bank still controls interest rates by enforcing a roughly three percentage point spread between deposit rates and lending rates.

Under the expected loss model, these revised expected cash flows are discounted at the same effective interest rate used when the instrument was first acquired, therefore retaining a cost based measurement.

Infant Mortality Rates

High vacancy rates

The present value of future benefits is the discounted value of all benefits, less retiree contributions, to be paid in the future to all current retirees and active staff expected to retire.

OECD countries with higher female labor force participation rates also have higher birth rates.

First, poverty rates increased despite overall growth in the economy and in employment rates.

Birth rates, infant mortality rates, and death rates are lower in cities than in rural areas owing to better access to education, medicines and hospitals.

The possibility of degrading Iran s nuclear weapons program through military action cannot be totally discounted, although it should of course be the last option and would be immensely risky even if militarily possible.

Sherman's southern support was discounted, as those states would not vote for the Republican nominee, and Sherman had paid the travel expenses of those delegates, who were for the most part African Americans.