UNICEF procurement services and expertise in international commodity purchasing and supply will increasingly enhance its country programme support.

It provides efficient, cost effective and transparent purchasing and contracting services for the delivery of technical cooperation and global forum activities, including the requirements of UNIDO Headquarters and common services.

Selling or purchasing a person in order to engage him in prostitution or serving as a middleman in the selling or purchasing of a person for this purpose is punishable by a term of imprisonment of 16 years for the purposes of this section, selling or purchasing includes consideration in the form of money, value, services or any other interests.

ILO considered that purchasing of specialized services involved technical, legal and logistical knowledge and was much more time consuming than off the shelf procurement of commodities.

The combination of rising food and fuel prices and the financial and economic crisis has reduced poor families purchasing power, access to social services, and employment opportunities.

(a) The International Federation of Purchasing and Materials Management had changed its name to International Federation of Purchasing and Supply Management

Under this new arrangement, the Ministry of Social Development will perform policy making, regulatory and purchasing roles related to health services through the Department of Quality Assurance and Health Protection.

By focusing on job creation in services, massive urbanization, and the broadening of its social safety net, there will be a big boost to labor income and consumer purchasing power.

And, by using purchasing power parity, which measures the cost of the same basket of goods and services in different countries, economists can adjust GDP to gain better insight into living standards.

The campaign against trafficking in women in the Baltic and Nordic countries and other measures helped to launch a debate in spring 2004 about the criminalization of the purchasing of sexual services.

As long as urbanization is coupled with job creation a strategy underscored by China s concomitant push into services led development labor income and consumer purchasing power will benefit.

In Australia, a programme called Greenhouse Friendly provides businesses with an opportunity to market greenhouse neutral products or services, deliver greenhouse gas abatement and give Australian consumers greater purchasing choices.

The lower dollar also reduces the purchasing power of oil exporters.

Likewise, purchasing luxury goods requires substantial financial resources.

West Africa Mining Corporation mineral purchasing contract area

The following list is of world economies sorted by their gross domestic product (GDP), the value of all final goods and services produced within a nation in a given year, adjusted by purchasing power parity (PPP), in US Dollars.

Most of the cost increase relates to the weakening of the United States dollar, contributing to increasing costs for purchasing goods and services overseas and affecting the payroll of existing posts, as well mandatory requirements for security (see paragraph 18 below).

The new data are based on improved estimates of purchasing power parity (PPP).

To prevent businesses from purchasing everything for their employees, in a family business for example, goods and services bought by the business for the employees that are not strictly for business use would be taxable.

In exchange, investors would commit to train local workers, create employment by purchasing local inputs and services, improve corporate practices and local providers standards, facilitate technology transfers, and establish links with local technical schools and universities.

Real values are a measure of purchasing power net of any price changes over time.

Chile currently has a per capita GDP of 15,000, after adjusting for purchasing power.

What it the current policy of Reuters on purchasing material from freelancers in Syria?

That can t happen without increased wages and purchasing power for workers.

Moreover, falling commodity prices will also help increase household purchasing power.

To these factors the speaker added the people's low purchasing power.

They are, however, using the module for purchasing power parity calculations.

Will gold maintain its purchasing power value if inflation erodes the purchasing power of the dollar or the euro? And will gold hold its value in euros or yen if the dollar continues to decline?

In advertising, most of the data is about people, their demographics, and their purchasing behavior.

Fluctuations in exchange markets result in gains and losses in the purchasing power of reserves.

As an example, the case of an organization purchasing a new system can be considered.

While oil exporting countries receive revenues in dollars (or their euro equivalent), they use different currencies to import goods and services from various countries. Any change in the exchange rate of the dollar affects the purchasing power of these countries, and therefore their real income.

In the course of the crisis, these debt ridden economies consumers abruptly changed their purchasing habits.

This system aims to prevent individuals from purchasing small quantities of pseudoephedrine from many different pharmacies.

The purchasing power of the population is steadily deteriorating, resulting in successive strikes by civil servants.

Thus, in principle, the purchasing power for the extra output would be available.

A 20 dollar depreciation would therefore reduce Americans purchasing power by only 3 .

The obstacles preventing Cuba's skeet team from purchasing Beretta rifles made in Italy

Such a third party may be a private firm selected through a competitive process, as for instance in Australia and the United Kingdom, or a centralized purchasing agency, as in the United States, offering ERA services to other Unite States agencies.

Sarkozy, who during his electoral campaign vowed to be the president who delivers on purchasing power, now faces an angry French public whose primary complaint is that purchasing power is being eroded by inflation.

Sarkozy, who during his electoral campaign vowed to be the president who delivers on purchasing power, now faces an angry French public whose primary complaint is that purchasing power is being eroded by inflation.

As legions of new consumers gain purchasing power, demand inevitably rises, driving up the price of scarce commodities.

Purchasing power parity measures a country s income using a set of international prices applied to all economies.

Purchasing a similar amount in the European Emissions Trading System would cost about 5.

As of 2008 average purchasing power adjusted income levels are similar to those of Italy, Sweden, Germany and France.