In the former case, politicians implement structural reforms aimed at redistributing costs and benefits among generations.

Any structural transformation involves costs, trade offs, and uncertainties, and it is vital that we understand these properly.

We need to carry out a structural re engineering of cooperation and reduce costs of transactions, brokering and financial restrictions.

Far from pushing through structural reforms, they let domestic wages and costs rip, reducing their competitiveness relative to Europe s better run economies.

A rapid reduction in unit labor costs, through structural reforms that increased productivity growth in excess of wages, is just as unlikely.

Likewise, competitiveness losses have been partly reversed as wages have lagged productivity growth, thus reducing unit labor costs, and some structural reforms are ongoing.

By the end of the year, however, the costs of the structural adjustment needed to shift China s growth model away from investment demand could rise further.

Previous reviews of UNOPS have highlighted an inadequate service pricing mechanism, lack of product delivery focus, and structural imbalances in operations, contributing to high fixed costs.

The European Commission has played a very helpful role through its structural funds, which cover up to 80 of the additional costs involved in integrating the Roma.

A rapid reduction in unit labor costs, via acceleration of structural reform and productivity growth relative to wage growth, is also unlikely, as that process took 15 years to restore competitiveness to Germany.

Africa s Structural Transformation Challenge

Structural and jurisdictional issues

Structural foundations remained intact.

As one perceptive journalist recently argued, America still has the means to address nearly any of its structural weaknesses energy use, medical costs, the right educational and occupational mix to rebuild a robust middle class.

The Mirage of Structural Reform

Any structural adjustment is painful.

But a weaker euro would not eliminate the need for structural reforms otherwise, the benefits would go mostly to countries like Germany that undertook painful reforms to restore competitiveness via a reduction in relative unit labor costs.

Structural change is, by definition, innovative.

Iran seeks compensation for expenses incurred in treating these additional cases indirect costs such as transportation costs costs incurred by caregivers opportunity costs and costs of future medical care.

Promoting improved understanding of the structural conditions in international markets, including long term trends in consumption and production, factors affecting market access, consumer preferences and prices, and conditions leading to prices which reflect the costs of sustainable forest management

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Structural analysis is often in terms of incompressible dynamic pressure, so that equivalent airspeed is a useful speed for structural testing.

EMU was designed to encourage structural reforms.

This structural shift has enormous practical significance.

This isn t for lack of structural reforms.

For now, the Chinese economy, having received its cyclical dose of stimulus, should be okay. By the end of the year, however, the costs of the structural adjustment needed to shift China s growth model away from investment demand could rise further.

nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp A rapid reduction in unit labor costs, via acceleration of structural reform and productivity growth relative to wage growth, is also unlikely, as that process took 15 years to restore competitiveness to Germany.

(e) Promoting improved understanding of the structural conditions in international markets, including long term trends in consumption and production, factors affecting market access, consumer preferences and prices, and conditions leading to prices which reflect the costs of sustainable forest management

An analysis of the staffing and costs of these services compared to their annual turnover shows that average staff productivity, for example, varies widely across the organizations to an extent that may not be justified by their constitutional or structural specificities.

In fact, where structural weaknesses are the source of problems, the Fund should still require structural adjustment as the price of its assistance.

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

Meanwhile, fears of structural decline pervade the country.

China s economic problems are more structural than cyclical.

Structural change does not automatically accelerate economic development.

Let us remember what structural unemployment looks like.

The main structural proteins are collagen and elastin.

(d) Structural elements (e.g., trustee, funds flow, timing)

Structural changes in the Palestinian economy 1995 2004

So, it's tens of millions of calculations just to design one connection between a piece of structural steel and another piece of structural steel.

Methodologies used to calculate costs Staff costs Salary and common staff costs The standard costs (in United States dollars) applied in determining staff costs in the proposed budget are based on actual salary costs for the first three months of 2005, and adjusted for step increments in 2006 2007.

On floods and storm surges, he noted structural measures such as multipurpose cyclone centres, and non structural measures such as subsurface food and seed storage.

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