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).

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

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.

(e) To reinstate the moratorium on capital punishment and adhere to its commitment to progressively abolish the death penalty

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.

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.

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.

America s commitment to free capital markets, the rule of law, and price stability confer credibility on the dollar as a store of value.

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

Indeed, the French Revolution s ideological commitment to unity was so strong that during parts of the nineteenth century, advocating federalism was a capital offense.

A governmental commitment to exclude derivative creditors from any safety net extended when financial institutions fail would reduce future costs to taxpayers from cases like AIG.

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

Europe and Japan have shown their commitment to reduce global warming by imposing costs on themselves and their producers, even if it places them at a competitive disadvantage.

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.

In fact, despite a commitment to launch formal negotiations to establish the bank, disagreements about the size and shares of the bank s capital have not been resolved.

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.

This issue was settled in 1997, when then IMF Managing Director Michel Camdessus tried to include some commitment to capital account liberalization in the Fund s Articles of Agreement.

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.

The key is to reflect on six kinds of capital goods business capital, infrastructure, human capital, intellectual capital, natural capital, and social capital.

However, its contracts with suppliers contained no penalty clauses and the consortium had failed to enter into a formal commitment to complete the projects within certain costs and time lines.

At worst, labor market failures impose modest inefficiency costs on society, whereas capital market failures harm society greatly, with workers, rather than the perpetrators of financial disaster, suffering the most.

The Secretary General projected an illustrative example of the construction disbursements under the capital master plan, exclusive of swing space costs, and thus of the assessments required (see table 6).

Another big change has come from fast growing emerging market countries, many of which, facing a wall of money coming their way from slow growth advanced countries (and mindful of the costs that large and volatile capital flows can bring), have chosen to apply capital controls.