They can take the form of direct subsidies, reduced interest rates or reduced costs for acquiring land.

Production or labour costs constitute only a relatively low proportion of their total operational costs.

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

So, because it went into mass production, costs were reduced, 100 years of refinement, emissions were reduced, tremendous production value.

It is an agenda for improved partnerships, reduced transaction costs, and increased efficiency.

The new components also reduced engine wear, lowering maintenance costs by about 5 .

On the other hand, there may be adjustment costs, especially social costs in the case of offshoring of labour intensive activities.

On the other hand, there may be adjustment costs, especially social costs in the case of the offshoring of labour intensive activities.

The private sector aimed to increase sales and reduce total supply chain costs, for which reduced lead time, distribution costs and inventories were required.

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.

The resulting rise in output per worker, together with slow wage growth, reduced unit labor costs.

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

As to operational costs, the estimate had been reduced on the basis of the revised deployment schedule.

Noting that, despite some recent initiatives to facilitate and to reduce the costs of remittances transfers, the costs incurred by migrants remain high and could be reduced,

The economic costs implied by this uncertainty could be reduced if there were a market for growth risk.

The cost of data loggers has been declining over the years as technology improves and costs are reduced.

Pregnant women pay the money in advance and afterwards the costs are offset with the labour allowance.

The reduction in the estimated costs of external audit reflects a reduced provision by the Board of Auditors ( 27,000).

By avoiding duplication of activities and resources this will result, in the mid term, in reduced costs to Parties.

But even if tariffs and quotas are progressively reduced, trade flows may remain low if other trade costs remain high.

With regard to operational costs, the Advisory Committee recommended that expenditure for official travel and air transportation should be reduced.

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.

The prolonged contraction of economic activity, combined with chronically high rates of unemployment and underemployment, has discouraged investment and has consequently reduced labour productivity.

Among economic factors, labour productivity based on low labour costs (for efficiency seeking investors) and high GDP growth rates (for market seeking investors) have been the most important determinants (Dasgupta and Ratha, 2000).

The labour force employed in agriculture, though significantly reduced in recent decades, still constitutes the largest part of the total active population of the country.

We first of all tackled the fiscal deficit issue by reducing our expenditures, which were mainly on the establishment we reduced establishment costs.

The advent of the euro was a seeming boon, because it reduced borrowing costs and allowed countries to create jobs through debt financed spending.

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

This has allowed enterprises, including SMEs, to replace other forms of capital and labour with information technology equipment, thus driving down overall costs.

As incomes increase, rising labour costs and the entry of lower cost producers can rapidly erode the competitiveness of labour intensive manufactures, and new investments are needed to maintain productivity growth and to upgrade to higher value added activities.

Such opposition seems counter intuitive, given that the ECB s mere announcement of the OMT program calmed sovereign debt markets and reduced borrowing costs in peripheral countries.

These measures taken to reduce the workload of outstanding motions increased the efficiency of the Chambers and reduced costs in connection with oral hearings of motions.

These measures taken to reduce the workload of outstanding motions increased the efficiency of the Chambers and reduced costs in connection with oral hearings of motions.

Formal standard setting through standards organizations has numerous benefits for consumers including increased innovation, multiple market participants, reduced production costs, and the efficiency effects of product interchangeability.

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.

This is a clear positive adjustment to redistribute the reduced income available under the conditions of the last five years, at the cost, however, of a major reduction in labour productivity.

Such flexibility not only reduced chances of enforceability but also created legal uncertainty, which would in turn give rise to additional costs and also raise questions of economic relevance.

In that context, the Group took note that the funds required for security obligations with regard to window replacement had been reduced to the incremental costs of the shatter resistant glass, and that other window replacement costs could be covered by available BMS funds.

The initiative could be dismissed as a weird irony, if it weren t for its phenomenal costs, which include likely destruction of biodiversity, increased water use, and reduced global food production.

The benefits time saved, more and better quality water, and reduced diarrhea are likely in many locations to be three times higher than the costs, often exceeding 7 per month.

In that regard, special emphasis must be placed on young people, who often worked unacceptably long hours under informal, intermittent and insecure work arrangements characterized by low productivity, meagre earnings and reduced labour protection.

NEW YORK The risks facing the eurozone have been reduced since the summer, when a Greek exit looked imminent and borrowing costs for Spain and Italy reached new and unsustainable heights.

The Group took note of the fact that the funds required for security obligations with regard to window replacement had been reduced to the incremental costs of the shatter resistant glass.

To partly offset this increase, the provisions made for other secretariat wide costs under General operating expenses, Acquisition of furniture and equipment and Supplies and materials have been revisited and reduced.

Estimates of the costs of violence against women include, beyond the personal loss of income to women, the broader economic effects of absenteeism, decreased labour market participation and decreased productivity.