These costs are somewhat lower in developing countries.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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?

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.

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

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

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.

We now have the ability to sequence genomes at increasingly lower costs, and we are slowly making the corresponding health information computer readable.

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

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.

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

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

Democracy may carry certain short term costs, but they are always lower than the long term damage that comes from a lack of popular participation.

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

There are a number of schemes floating around for leveraging Germany s lower borrowing costs to help its partner countries, beyond simply expanding the ECB s balance sheet.

At some point, employers, who are interested in healthy, motivated employees and lower health costs (but demand a lower level of proof than insurance companies and governments), are likely to come in, based on these informal data collection efforts and their own pilot programs.

French production costs are high, but Greek costs are higher.

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

(h) Relocate operating units to lower cost duty stations relocate corporate headquarters and support service functions to a zone more central to UNOPS operations, where support costs are lower sublease the Chrysler Building to assure full rental cost recovery.

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.

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.

Most cities are increasingly installing Automatic Meter Reading (AMR) systems to prevent fraud, to lower ever increasing labor and liability costs and to improve customer service and satisfaction.

While accepted economic theory would argue that lower prices are good for consumers, it does not consider the hidden costs that accompany lower prices such as the health damaging effects of high levels of methyl mercury and the destruction of ocean marine resources.

This keeps costs much lower than in France, and Greece, for example, where the retirement age is 60 or below, and where pension outlays are soaring as a result.

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.

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.

Even more significant, however, are the differences in energy costs, which are now up to 50 lower in the US a gap that is likely to widen further as America s shale gas revolution continues.

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.

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.