(iii) Deliver value for money outputs and services

The value for money question is even more difficult to assess.

Health care costs in the US are exorbitant, with low value for money.

It is used in assessing the value for money of a medical intervention.

First, they can improve value for money (in that better value for money can be achieved through a competitive market price, and substantial cost savings can be realized through dynamic and real time trading).

These six international banks alone accounted for nearly 20 of the prime money market funds value.

Nowadays, every North Korean seems to like money and know its value.

Merit and skills are how we give an intrinsic value to money.

We must value a sense of moderation and modesty instead of an unquenchable greed for money, prestige, and consumption.

In developing countries, as regards fresh food, traditional markets tend to be cheaper and offer better value for money.

Comment by the Administration. UNDP considers value for money a key criterion in the review and approval of all contracts.

(f) Improve transparency and value for money by introducing activity based costing techniques, to be rolled out systematically in 2006.

In the past, metallic money provided an inconvenient and unsatisfactory solution to the question of value. It was inconvenient because gold was awkward for everyday transactions, and silver had too little value for major transfers.

The law should provide that a person in possession of money holds the money free of a security right in the money if that person gives value for the money or has no knowledge that the transfer of the money to that person violates the terms of the security agreement.

In the past, metallic money provided an inconvenient and unsatisfactory solution to the question of value.

Moreover, metallic money was prone to unpredictable shifts in value with the discovery of new supplies.

One justification for capital controls is to prevent inflows of hot money from boosting the value of the home currency excessively, thereby undermining competitiveness.

That money must come from higher taxes, from eroding the real value of money balances and government debt through inflation, or from outright default and debt restructuring.

The error is called the money illusion the belief that a nominal unit of currency is the best measure of value, even though its real value is unstable.

Many reviewers criticized the lack of Bluetooth, since it was a music phone, but acknowledged the high quality music output and the value for money.

Under these circumstances, the Organization will continue to provide its services in a focused, prioritized and integrated manner in order to maximize value for money.

But if it resulted from an increase in demand, the value of money will increase, which means deflation.

UNOPS is committed to improving quality of services and value for money, while progress on United Nations reform may motivate other organizations to use UNOPS services.

If this increase resulted from an increase in supply, the value of money will go down, which means inflation.

Unfortunately, monetary policymakers effort to operationalize the objective of ensuring that the value of money remains stable has taken on a life of its own. Today s economics textbooks assume that a primary objective of central banks is to stabilize consumer prices, rather than the value of money.

For a given supply of money, an increase in the production of goods will increase the value of a currency, because each unit will buy more goods.

The use of PbR models is often promoted as a way to drive service improvements and achieve increased value for money by aligning incentives to desired outcomes.

Now they see the current crisis as a vindication of the value of not spending money that you don t have.

1.184 To implement further reforms in the areas of procurement and logistics, ICT, construction and engineering to ensure that the provision of services achieves best value for money.

It means betting against an asset with borrowed money in the expectation of making a profit when its value goes down.

Ideally, bank creditors would not lose money, because their fixed interest claims would be converted into bank shares of similar value.

While Keynes had focused on the value stability of currency, with the resulting panics based on an insufficient money supply leading to alternate currency and collapse, then Friedman focused on price stability, which is the equilibrium between supply and demand for money.

The government s capacity to invest is under severe pressure. And, though many government programs deliver good value for money Medicare is a good example far too many do not.

The Reserve Fund, a well established money market fund with too many unpaid IOUs from Lehman, could not keep its value steady.

For starters, the lag time between changes in the money supply and price movements is long, variable, and unpredictable. Given this, targeting consumer prices in the next 2 3 years will not guarantee that the value of money remains stable in the long term.

China s Quest for Value

But low value targets for one ad or drug could be high value targets for another.

Money for Nothing

I recently had a Twitter conversation with Annalisa Roger, founder of DotGreen.org, who told me about the value her group will be adding to .green marketing, brand identity, raising money for NGOs.

In paragraph 340 of the report, UNDP agreed with the Board's recommendation that it follow a more rigorous process in future to ensure that value for money was obtained when consultants were appointed.

While companies (and some people) seek attention because they expect to earn money through it, many individuals value attention as something that is intrinsically desirable.

Meanwhile, the dollar s falling value reflects the fact that the Fed is pumping more money into the system than are most of its trading partners.

The Registry evaluated the above quotations, taking into account technical ability to perform the audit in accordance with generally accepted common auditing standard, the interest of the Tribunal and the best value for money.

33. Requests the Secretary General to continue to develop clear guidelines for the implementation of the best value for money methodology in United Nations procurement and to report thereon to the General Assembly at its sixty second session

Reducing transfer costs, which average an estimated 9 of the value of transactions, would put more money into the hands of those who need it most.