Common staff costs were lower than in 2002 for reasons of lower staff turnover.

These costs are somewhat lower in developing countries.

The adjustment might come about through wage increases in countries with lower labor costs, rather than cuts in countries where costs are too high.

We have significantly lower capital costs in our plant equipment.

The other thing is that we ve got much lower costs.

What African farmer, despite his lower initial costs, can compete?

As seen from table 7, the lower labour costs in developing countries and countries in transition more than offset lower labour productivity, resulting in production costs that are significantly lower in these countries than in developed countries.

Field operating costs have been reduced by 1,147,800 and the new staffing structure resulted in lower staff costs.

(d) Simplification of the administration of transaction and lower transaction costs.

Lower transaction costs mean that exchange can be dramatically more fine grained.

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

As enterprises seek to reduce operational costs, they have the option to outsource non core activities to countries that can provide a high level of service with much lower labour costs.

Lower productivity and higher unit labor costs eroded firms' willingness to hire, leaving Europe with chronically higher unemployment than in the US.

Alternatively, the firm can invest in skills training and build a more productive workforce with greater loyalty and hence lower turnover costs.

How is this possible? After all, higher productivity should bring lower unit labor costs.

That experience showed that countries default when the costs are lower than the benefits.

The rise of new economic powers with lower costs made employment loss in old industries like textiles, iron and steel, and shipbuilding inevitable.

Third, government could assume part of a mortgage, taking advantage of its lower borrowing costs.

Labor costs in the US industrial sector are currently 25 lower than the European average.

The estimated costs for the Sixth Review Conference reflect the maximum duration identified for that meeting a shorter duration would result in lower costs.

With the Italian debt GDP ratio currently at roughly 106 , lower borrowing costs reduced the public debt ratio by more than eight percentage points.

End user efficiency improvements provided or supported by water utilities can lower water costs, with benefits for low income households, and reduce water losses.

Europeans would benefit directly through improved Internet access, lower energy costs, and more efficient transport links.

Higher import costs and lower export earnings combined to reduce the competitiveness of landlocked developing countries.

(e) Deployment of fewer than projected vehicles resulting in lower costs for petrol, oil and lubricants

In countries with higher price growth than in Germany, but with the same borrowing costs, this cannot produce anything but overheating, higher inflation, and even lower real interest rates.

But the lion s share of these investments result in lower energy usage, and thus reduced energy costs.

Furthermore, the reductions under common staff costs reflect both the realized vacancy rates described above and the lower than budgeted actual rate of common staff costs ( 5,526,400).

Likewise, increasing pressure from growing labor costs will force enterprises to lower their profit expectations and cut costs, negatively affecting output growth and employment in the short run.

Today, the costs of manufacturing such items are lower in countries like Bangladesh and Vietnam than in Guangdong.

debt service coverage reduces the financial risk to investors and translates into lower borrowing costs for the borrower.

The competitive pressure to lower production costs has also influenced the geographical destinations of these SMEs from Singapore.

Adequate private insurance can be boosted in the future through public education, improved insurance institutions, and lower insurance costs.

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

Other restrictions in domestic Internet markets often make it difficult for ISPs in developing countries to lower their costs.

Plants in densely populated areas with lower safety standards, for example, would face higher insurance costs, which could lead to a self selected phase out of the riskiest plants.

Nor can one argue that trade growth has little to do with trade policy while lower transport costs have increased trade volumes, so has steady reduction of trade barriers.

Provided jobs are available for the rising number of workers, a country can reap the benefits of increased production and lower costs associated with the decreasing proportion of dependants.

Lower financing costs for public debt appear to be a net gain to society, because the government then saves on debt service and can keep taxes lower. But any gains from lower taxes are more than offset by the losses to the private sector, which, facing higher financing costs, will invest less, in turn lowering economic growth and thus reducing government revenues.

However, the revenues will almost certainly be lower, and the costs higher, than calculations used to promote them would imply.

Labor and many product markets remain closed, despite the urgent need to increase competition, lower production costs, and raise productivity.

The fundamental problem for Greece is its bloated fiscal commitments, enabled by lower borrowing costs when it joined the euro.

They can even capture opportunities if they are able to innovate and show flexibility because of their lower fixed costs.

It would enhance US economic competitiveness, especially relative to Europe, given the lower costs involved in the extraction of shale gas.

Often, jobs that would have disappeared anyway, owing to high costs in the US and other rich countries, have resurfaced where costs are lower, thus providing services that would have been lost otherwise.