For luxury goods to have any function, society needs information about their cost.

Calculating how much it would cost to stop landowners felling their trees is harder.

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.

This is reflected in their cost of financing in general.

As these staff receive the post adjustment applicable to their home duty station, the average salary cost was higher than the standard cost used in the budget estimates.

Resources are the available volumes of hydrocarbon without reference to constraints as to their accessibility and or cost.

Governments have far more cost effective electricity generation technologies at their disposal.

However, a number of delegations expressed their disappointment in the decision to retain the cost sharing mechanism.

Their respective leaderships have taken bold decisions, often at great political cost, to move the process forward.

And yet, without more creative approaches to providing government services, their cost will continue to rise inexorably over time.

The environmental cost of the disaster combined with the financial cost of the clean up (and the threat of financial penalty to Exxon) caused the industrial world to re think their definitions of risk.

The high price of such drugs is limiting their impact as well. Herceptin can cost up to 40,000 annually, and newer cancer drugs cost even more, making them prohibitively expensive for most patients.

This would allow Italy, Spain, and even Greece to finance their national debts at a more reasonable, sustainable cost.

European firms will continue to be at a competitive disadvantage relative to American firms, which bear no cost for their emissions.

People should know what their officials are doing, what their government s policies cost, who pays for them, and who benefits.

Firms can readily compare their cost of abating an extra ton of emissions with the cost of the allowance required if that ton is released into the atmosphere.

On the other hand, the increased cost would be offset to some extent by lower cost imported inputs, and foreign affiliates could expect to repatriate higher profits from sales in China in terms of their own currencies.

Any change in the value of the dollar therefore affects their cost structure and profitability.

Volunteers work for free, but their training and motivation cost money and need continuous support.

Banks are provided with a facility to monitor their positions in real time and hence make cost effective investment decisions.

Finally, British politicians did not seek to maintain at any cost their country s position as the world s fastest growing economy.

It creates cost control and cost reduction pressures from the start, leading to greater efficiency.

(b) To achieve cost savings

The unit cost (cost per person) is then multiplied by the number of General Service and related staff whose duty station is not in their country of nationality.2 On that basis, the annual total cost of providing international benefits to General Service and related categories would amount to approximately 55.5 million.

Cost escalation may contribute to a project cost overrun but it is not synonymous with it.

This propped up the dollar and reduced the cost of borrowing for US households, encouraging them to live beyond their means.

If people who use their services actually stay healthy, work harder, and cost less, the evidence will be hard to ignore.

In April 2012, the company began a partnership with low cost airline Ryanair to power their hotel price comparison service, RyanairHotels.com.

Java ME may offer a lower cost to market because most carriers allow non certified Java ME applications to run on their phones.

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The Middle East has been losing for too long, because its national leaders have been seeking to win in their own way, for their own purposes, and at everyone s cost but their own.

It will enhance efficiency and cost effectiveness for the regional and subregional centres to include capacity assistance activities in their work plans.

Owing to the increasing cost of yeast and flour, the cost of Malooga increased over 150 from 2004 to 2007.

Their surplus low cost unskilled labourers should be allowed cross border mobility in order to help lift their families out of poverty, which remained the most daunting challenge to countries' collective wisdom.

Cost decreases relating to posts amount to 133,200.

Efforts to ensure that the senior citizens are granted special privileges that guarantee their ability to travel from country to country at the lowest possible cost

Firms can readily compare their cost of abating an extra ton of emissions with the cost of the allowance required if that ton is released into the atmosphere. A well functioning allowance market with broad participation and pricing that reflects underlying fundamentals reveals this latter cost.

The best that central banks can do is to buy time, albeit at an increasing cost, for other policymaking entities to get their act together.

Whether used to store leftovers, keep hospital equipment sterile, or insulate a home, plastics are unmatched for their adaptability, durability, and low cost.

British politicians, meanwhile, are seeking to renew their navy s aging fleet of Trident submarines at an estimated cost of 76 billion ( 121 billion).

For economic reasons, those young people had never had the opportunity to pursue their secondary education, and have now done so without cost.

The collection of data necessary to estimate savings has been difficult as some organizations did not know the cost of their payroll systems.

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

2005 18 UNDP strategic cost management and implications for cost recovery

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