Updated requirements under operational costs reflect a reduction of 1,131,200 in comparison with the initial estimate of 1,795,200.

The revised estimate of 383,820,200 reflects an increase of 110.7 million, or 40.5 per cent, over the initial apportionment for 2004 05.

The Advisory Committee was informed that included in the estimate for military contingents was an amount of 48,028,500 for freight and deployment of contingent owned equipment, an increase of 45,528,500 over the initial estimate of 2,500,000.

Since the initial estimate for the biennium 2004 05 had been revised substantially upward, the actual change was closer to 20 per cent.

The initial allotment in 2005 under the operational budget was 7.4 million, which is 68 per cent of the approved estimate for 2005.

The revised estimate for air transportation amounts to 199,773,000, an increase of 37,344,600, or 23 per cent, over the initial apportionment for 2004 05.

The appropriation represented a reduction of 933,800 from the proposed initial estimate of the Secretary General of 42,463,300 (see A 57 772 Add.2).

In some cases the systems are so old that it is difficult to estimate what the initial acquisition or development costs were, related to payroll processing.

This estimate may look astonishingly high, but it is relatively conservative, as it assumes that only one quarter of the initial shock will result in permanently lower output.

(b) Strategy II provides for the scope of strategy I above for phasing and swing space but recommends cutting the approved renovation scope to stay within the initial 1.2 billion estimate.

The initial provision for asset write down of 14.1 million was set up in 1996 1997 on the basis of management's best estimate of RFA assets impairment as at 31 December 1997.

Cost estimate

This is done because it is harder to come to a realistic estimate of the cash flows as time goes on involves calculating the period of time likely to recoup the initial outlay.

This means the estimate for 2002 is likely to be an over estimate.

Subject to a review under Article 8 and the acceptance of the revised estimate by the expert review team, the revised estimate shall replace the adjusted estimate.

This amount, applied to the total United Nations system staff (about 80,000 including all types of contracts) over a period of 10 years, leads to our initial broad estimate of the savings that can be achieved.

b 2003 World Bank estimate.

Date of initial communication 4 December 1996 (initial submission)

Date of initial communication 17 August 1998 (initial submission)

Date of initial communication 8 October 1998 (initial submission)

Date of initial communication 14 May 2001 (initial submission)

Date of initial communication 22 July 1998 (initial submission)

Date of initial communication 6 November 2000 (initial submission)

Date of initial communication 22 July 1998 (initial submission)

Date of initial communication 18 June 2002 (initial submission)

Date of initial communication 14 October 2003 (initial submission)

Estimate 2002 2003 to be determined

Estimate 2002 2003 to be determined

Estimate 2002 2003 to be determined

The average estimate was 33.9 days.

Estimate by UNESCO Institute for Statistics.

Recapitulation of the May 2005 estimate

Initial step

Initial review

Initial capital

These budgetary costs (exclusive of interest) amount to 652 billion in our conservative estimate and 799 billion in our moderate estimate.

In fact, this estimate is wildly optimistic.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION TO THE COST ESTIMATE FOR

This estimate is based on past experience.

d Estimate by UNESCO Institute for Statistics.

The total estimate of 569 million is 80 per cent higher than the preliminary estimate of 315.8 million made in September 2002.

Studies are just beginning to estimate the impact.

Some estimate that 300,000 Christians have fled Syria.

It has a population of 14,400 (2010 estimate).

Many believe this to be a conservative estimate.