Information technologies are a cost effective form of capital.

As above, firm value is enhanced when, and if, the return on capital exceeds the cost of capital.

Higher transactions taxes increase the cost of capital, ultimately lowering investment.

In issuing contingent capital, banks would have to pay a higher interest rate than they would on ordinary long term debt, because debt investors will face the true cost of capital, not the government subsidized cost.

Distortions in key prices that favor capital intensive manufacturing need to be removed by raising the cost of land, energy, water, and capital.

South African firms have used their relatively lower cost of capital to invest in other African countries where capital markets were not developed.

In addition to cost cutting, specific measures to be implemented under option one include

Cost escalation is defined as changes in the cost or price of specific goods or services in a given economy over a period.

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.

So in fact, we can go, using operational budget, we can sorry, capital cost we can actually achieve what was no longer achievable in operational cost.

Yet practical solutions are at hand, because simple and low cost technologies can address specific problems.

While the right policies cannot eliminate risk, they can ameliorate the cost benefit tradeoff from capital flows.

The banks claim that higher capital requirements and other regulations will drive up the cost of credit.

The result is an increase in the cost of capital to firms, which lowers investment and exacerbates the crisis.

Merchandise needn t pass through the capital, as it does in most Latin American and Caribbean countries, with the associated cost increases.

To manage exorbitant demand for financial and physical assets, China s leaders must address its root cause the low cost of capital.

The discount rate used is generally the appropriate weighted average cost of capital (WACC), that reflects the risk of the cashflows.

Specific policy measures should guarantee access by the marginalized to assets and opportunities particularly to education, land, capital and technology.

But if policies can create corruption, it is equally true that the cost of corruption will vary with the specific policies.

In addition, institutional arrangements for social development are being established with time specific targets to ensure cost efficiency and maximum impact.

Thus, it is not a good idea to run persistent current account deficits and become dependent on (temporarily) low cost foreign capital.

Those who are willing to engage often demand steep risk premiums that dramatically increase the cost of capital, often to usurious levels.

Takes note of the conference room paper on criteria for the determination of project specific cost recovery rates (DP 2005 CRP.5)

To the extent that some of the lower cost is rebated to their clients, even industrial firms in Germany enjoy a lower cost of capital, giving them an unfair advantage vis à vis their European competitors.

Recognizes that the cash payment option, based on a one time assessment or multi year special assessments, would be the simplest and the most cost effective approach for meeting the cost of the capital master plan

1 The amount required to bring the working capital reserve up to 8.3 per cent of the total annual programmes cost plus overhead.

In the case of positions located in the peacekeeping missions, mission specific salary and common staff cost percentage were applied to the estimates.

Implementation costs are very difficult to estimate, as they represent the cost to adapt standard products to the specific client's environment and needs.

Existing technologies provide lower risk, lower cost opportunities for new businesses to gain footholds by applying such technologies to address specific local needs.

Advice from regional directors also helps in understanding and delivery of country specific requests and addressing their needs in a cost effective manner.

Liquidity injections and low interest rates have a microeconomic effect that has received little attention they lower the cost of capital vis à vis the cost of labor, which causes a relative decline in demand for labor.

The region s economies are now cooling and incomes are flattening, and low cost capital inflows will no longer encourage public and private sector consumption.

Firms, especially in sectors sheltered from international competition, have retained market power and have increased prices in response to the rising cost of capital.

In a sale and leaseback transaction, the company will sell its assets to a another person for a specific sum (which it may then use as working capital, to make capital expenditures or for other purposes).

5. Calls upon the Secretary General to ensure that the preparation of a comprehensive design plan and detailed cost analysis for the capital master plan will identify all viable alternatives in the most cost effective and efficient manner

Pull factors relate to location specific advantages of the host countries such as market potential, low cost labour, incentives, investment opportunities, technology and skills.

(c) As the balance of payments deteriorated, especially after interruptions of capital inflows and sometimes massive flights of capital, the national currency was sharply devalued. This sharp devaluation increased further the cost of debt servicing and the debt to GDP ratio.

The good times were also buoyed by easier access to low cost capital, much of which has come in the wake of the global financial crisis.

The higher growth tends to be associated with an investment boom, which in turn seems to be propelled by the lower cost of capital for firms.

Then came a strategic decision by all the Shia groups to defend Assad whatever the cost, said a regional ambassador previously based in the Syrian capital.

The annual cost of specific disease control in the next three years is perhaps 6 billion, and another 6 billion per year for health system expansion.

Specific policy instruments that can be considered include incentives, performance requirements, investment targeting, and the provision of public goods (notably low cost and high quality infrastructure).

The capital cost of repairing them would amount to approximately 9,420,000, equivalent to an annual cost of 1,884,000 over a period of five years, which the country has not been able to assume owing to the limits on resources resulting from the embargo.

Or perhaps the low cost of international capital will entice the US to absorb some of the world s excess savings, triggering a new period of global expansion.

Capital adequacy was a matter of judgment examiners would figure out how large a buffer a bank ought to have, taking into account its specific risks.