But if there are no new investment opportunities on the horizon, squabbling is less costly, because the existing plant and machinery are already sunk costs.

We have significantly lower capital costs in our plant equipment.

Nor do these findings suggest that capital controls have no costs.

Capital controls have real costs, even if they fail to stanch inflows.

But, given current progress and high capital costs, this appears overly optimistic.

Technical options for waste water treatment range from capital intensive conventional treatment systems to alternative systems with lower capital costs.

In addition, the capital master plan would continue to incur more support costs and other operating costs on account of prolonged delays.

Cooperation with affiliate firms to reduce transaction costs in sourcing, capital acquisition, and contracts

At a time when bank capital is scarce, that impediment carries significant economic costs.

Costs and financing The cost of supplying water consists, to a very large extent, of fixed costs (capital costs and personnel costs) and only to a small extent of variable costs that depend on the amount of water consumed (mainly energy and chemicals).

In Africa, most countries have sunk deeper into poverty.

The General Fund and Working Capital Fund now show only UNIDO's contribution to BMS costs.

The evil doers are indeed sunk in error and folly

The evil doers are indeed sunk in error and folly

The capital expenditure costs are then amortized or depreciated over the life of the asset in question.

The latter course risks the worst of all worlds all of the costs of capital controls and all of the domestic policy complications from volatile capital flows, but few of the potential benefits of foreign capital.

The result was a dramatic reduction in the British state s borrowing costs and the emergence of a well functioning capital market, which caused private borrowing costs to fall as well.

Such a requirement would impose costs on universal banks by constraining their ability to transfer capital within the group.

Better repayment prospects and lower regulatory capital costs then fuel the asset based financing of further acquisition of assets.

The remaining portion represents support costs and items budgeted centrally, including working capital and area staff salary increase requirements.

The flight of human capital costs the government over 38 billion annually, two times the revenues received from selling oil.

The economic and physical capital costs to the Palestinian economy of the past five years of hostilities continue to mount.

Submarines have sunk, neighbors have been invaded, and forests have burned out of control.

Later on the vehicle was sunk in a designated area of the Pacific Ocean

There is an outflow of capital from developing regions either to meet those rising costs or to be invested in the developed world, leaving those regions woefully short of capital for investment.

Moreover, if financial institutions follow their own risk assessments when estimating appropriate capital cushions, the costs associated with such provisions decline.

Responsibility must be put back at the heart of a system that has sunk into excess.

That also means ending government co financing of operating costs and demanding that the oil companies tap capital markets to bridge the shortfall.

Furthermore, by raising regulatory capital costs in boom times, some counterweight to the pro cyclical bias intrinsic to financial systems would be introduced.

This has allowed enterprises, including SMEs, to replace other forms of capital and labour with information technology equipment, thus driving down overall costs.

Bush s presidency was discredited and sunk by the man whom he fatally selected to work for him.

This seemingly contradictory fall in financing costs reflected an abundance of foreign capital seeking to invest in the US, including money fleeing from Europe.

A huge influx of capital could lead to a significant appreciation of the peso s exchange rate, causing an increase in Mexico s currently very attractive labor costs.

(c) Reduce barriers to long term, non debt creating capital flows, especially FDI, and the costs to migrants of sending their remittances through sanctioned institutional channels.

46. Requests the Secretary General to ensure that infrastructure projects approved for Headquarters under the present resolution should not, pending a decision on the capital master plan, incur additional unnecessary costs at a later date under the capital master plan

Say thou bethink ye , were your water to be sunk away , who then could bring you water welling up ?

Among them is he who says , Excuse me , and do not trouble me . In fact , they sunk into trouble .

Such costs are precisely why impecunious countries such as Greece face massive social and economic displacement when financial markets lose confidence and capital flows suddenly dry up.

In an effort to minimize operating costs, the Administration reduced its capital master plan staff from 17 (including Security Service) in 2004 to 14 in March 2005.

The battle The battle was over in a matter of hours, with about half the Christian galleys captured or sunk.

He has cast Pharaoh's chariots and his army into the sea. His chosen captains are sunk in the Red Sea .

In the face of high systemic risk, private capital is leaving banks and the sovereign debt markets, causing governments borrowing costs to rise and bank capitalization to fall.

Recent research, by carefully quantifying the potential costs and benefits, allows this standard logic to be applied to the question of whether and when to apply capital controls.

As China s demographic dividend disappears, its low end labor market is shrinking, driving up its once rock bottom labor costs and diminishing its rate of return on capital.

Projects form an integral part of programme activities and are the means by which a majority of the Agency's capital costs (for example, school construction and upgrading of health centres), as well as the costs related to environmental health improvements and shelter rehabilitation are funded.