By building sustainable cities, policymakers can support social and economic development, while minimizing environmental damage.

Ti examines all sides of an issue, looking to solve problems while minimizing effort and risk.

Furthermore, industry should seek new applications for recycled materials, while minimizing the amount of virgin material used.

The rapid changes occurring in the Asia Pacific region demand policies to maximize growth opportunities while minimizing risks.

Convergence is on the way, but minimizing its global costs requires redesigning the Bretton Woods institutions to meet the challenges faced by emerging countries.

Requests the Secretary General to review the administrative support structure for the quick impact projects with a view to minimizing overhead costs for their implementation

A strong federal regulatory framework could help to ensure this result, while minimizing the environmental and safety risks associated with extraction.

Campaigns reached over 5 million children, while the restoration of routine immunization has been crucial for minimizing the risk of disease spread.

This is a compromise aimed at minimizing the incentive to gamble with public insurance while allowing some economies of scale for banking activities.

Minimizing negative effects of business restructuring

At the same time, the state must improve the quality and delivery of education, health care, and security, while minimizing corruption and administrative abuses.

UNHCR had taken measures which would complement the anticipated United Nations system wide changes so as to improve its ability to perform while minimizing risks.

To reduce public debt, which stands above 120 of GDP, while minimizing painful adjustments, Italy needs economic growth something that has eluded policymakers in recent years.

While consolidation may imply some short term costs, especially in a recession, the long term costs of delay are large.

Immediate actions to optimize the implementation efficiency and impact of current DDT use, while minimizing human and environmental exposure and Diversification of intervention options to incorporate alternatives.

Providing Vitamin A for a year costs as little as 1.20 per child, while providing Zinc costs as little as 1.00.

Magnetic resonance compatible robotics allow for real time imaging, providing information about anatomical structures and changes in the brain relative to surgical pathology while operating, thereby minimizing risk.

Strategic partnerships with key traditional and non traditional donors will be strengthened, and continued efforts will be made to utilize donor funds efficiently and effectively, using sound results based management principles and minimizing transaction costs.

Of this total an estimated 1.9 trillion are direct costs such as medical care, while 0.2 trillion are indirect costs such as missed work.

The benefits have become more dubious, while the costs and risks have grown increasingly evident.

The corridors will provide a more direct transport route for oil and liquefied gas from Africa and the Persian Gulf, while minimizing exposure to sea lanes policed by the United States Navy.

(a) Capping of corporate costs, while corporate functions address strategic matters of governance, oversight and inspection

Technology transfer, ethical business behaviour and minimizing the negative effects of business restructuring

Too many big investors can no longer meet their margin calls, while borrowing costs have risen sharply.

The challenge for farmers is, on the one hand, to meet food demands while on the other hand to protect the environment through minimizing the use of fossil fuels and providing bioenergy, carbon sinks, etc.

(b) Within market tolerance, increase managerial flexibility and alignment of structure with demand by converting fixed costs into project based variable costs where feasible, while containing the overall cost structure.

While the agricultural sector has shown some productivity gains since 2000, high logistics costs have constrained its impact.

Indeed, the irony is that the social benefits of such subsidies are enormous, while the costs are negligible.

He believes that he is doing the right thing and following the prudent course in waiting for the Syrian conflict to burn itself out in some way while minimizing the long term risk to American lives.

Active surveillance programs are an encouraging prospect for minimizing the negative consequences of PSA testing.

Recently, international cooperation in minimizing the consequences of the Chernobyl disaster has been stepped up.

The Council should be able to assist UNOCI in minimizing all security risks in the country.

By emphasizing Party control through a crackdown on SOEs, government opponents, and critics in the media and academia Xi seeks to maximize his ability to impose economic reforms while minimizing the risk of a challenge from conservative forces.

We call for greater consultation between States and the issuance of travel advisories in order to ensure accuracy, while minimizing the adverse effects of such advisories in national development efforts such as in attracting tourists and foreign investment.

Their finance ministers, while euphoric at their countries record low borrowing costs, must have understood that it might not last.

That is a pity, because economists understanding of the substantive issues, professional obsession with incentives, and attention to unanticipated consequences give them a natural advantage in designing institutional arrangements to further the objectives in question while minimizing behavioral distortions.

US Pakistan relations have regressed to their level before September 11, 2001, with mutual distrust minimizing cooperation.

Transfer of technology to host countries, ethical business behaviour and minimizing the negative effects of business restructuring

Governments will increasingly be under pressure not only to devise innovative mechanisms to deal with issues arising from an ageing population but also to ensure the long term viability of social welfare programmes, while minimizing the negative effects on the economy.

However, since the signature of a spoof cannot be determined in advance, a warhead authentication and dismantlement system would need to have as high a detection probability as possible (while minimizing the occurrence of false alarms) in order to detect spoofing.

Interest rate spreads for Italy and Spain are widening again, while borrowing costs for Portugal and Greece remained high all along.

In general, legislation before 2000 imposed on employers enormous firing costs, while new legislation in both Entities represents a significant improvement.

Thematic funds have fewer restrictions than most other resources, allowing for longer term planning while reducing transaction costs and recovery rates.

Let's pretend that our government supported an oil based economy, while discouraging more sustainable forms of energy, knowing all the while that the result would be pollution, war and rising costs.

While most of the costs of the workshops were covered under the project, additional support for travel costs of a few participants as well as for the travel of staff was received from individual donor countries.