Thematic funds have fewer restrictions than most other resources, allowing for longer term planning while reducing transaction costs and recovery rates.

By offering conditional approval of the Keystone XL, Obama could advance the pipeline s very genuine diplomatic and economic benefits, while reducing its environmental costs.

Likewise, while reducing employment is one way to boost productivity, it implies high macroeconomic costs in terms of lost revenues and higher social spending.

At the beginning of 2005, the designs were further revised with the view to reducing the construction and operation costs, while increasing the function.

The Committee believes that there is a need to examine translation requirements and methods with a view to reducing costs while ensuring optimal quality.

(c) In Europe, the management systems for reducing production costs

While reducing such capabilities might seem like an expedient way to cut costs, European governments must not lose sight of their long term security priorities.

In fact, evidence shows that building cities right generates near term benefits, while reducing the longer term costs associated with sprawl, congestion, pollution, and climate change.

The new Basel III package of global banking reforms may increase funding costs further for some borrowers, while reducing the availability of finance, especially for longer term debt.

The costs of reducing emissions pale in comparison to the possible risks the world faces.

Poor hygiene, sanitation and water exacerbate poverty by reducing productivity and elevating health care costs.

Electronic technologies have facilitated the use of reverse auctions by greatly reducing the transaction costs.

By creating more competition for interest income and reducing net interest rate differentials, liberalized interest rates could reduce banks profitability, while SOEs will likely suffer the most, owing to much higher financing costs.

Secondly, they can enhance the efficient allocation of resources (reducing the time required to conduct a procurement, and reducing the administrative costs of the traditional open tendering procedure).

So we face a twofold imperative securing growth while reducing debt.

This approach, also adopted by Italy, contributes to reducing costs and increasing the overall volume of funds for beneficiaries.

Through conservation agriculture practices, farmers contribute to reducing emissions while combating land degradation.

Nevertheless, the benefits in reducing the likelihood of another crisis and another loss of economic independence far outweigh the costs.

State orchestration should instead be focused on fighting corruption, reducing transaction costs, promoting competition, lowering entry barriers, and removing excess capacity.

Health costs can be very high, so health insurance schemes are a popular way reducing risk in the event of shock.

While consolidation may imply some short term costs, especially in a recession, the long term costs of delay are large.

Shale gas could thus reduce dependency on OPEC oil and gas while reducing carbon emission.

The challenge is to enable freedom of mobility while reducing the consumption of fossil fuels.

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

This results in an increase in entrepreneurial activities and the creation of jobs, as well as reducing food costs and improving quality.

(c) Ensuring that all these processes complement each other, with the aim of reducing transaction costs, most importantly for the partner countries

Developing countries must be proactive in designing and implementing trade facilitation measures for enhancing efficiency, reducing transaction costs and maintaining supply capacities.

Providing Vitamin A for a year costs as little as 1.20 per child, while providing Zinc costs as little as 1.00.

Innovative measures had succeeded in reducing unemployment while education free and compulsory was guaranteed for everyone.

And the recent rise in the value of the dollar relative to the euro and the British pound helps by reducing import costs.

It would also be grateful if the Secretariat could explore ways to streamline the organizational structure with a view to reducing personnel costs.

Kenyan entrepreneurs have used fairly inexpensive technology to successfully organize online auctions for coffee, increasing their reach and reducing their costs of sale.

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

Accurately assessing maritime operations success requires time and care, because naval capabilities cannot be built up quickly. While reducing such capabilities might seem like an expedient way to cut costs, European governments must not lose sight of their long term security priorities.

High unit labor costs and unemployment rates are responsible, in turn, for reducing the trend rate of economic growth, mainly owing to under utilized labor, while the combination of lackluster growth and an ever mounting welfare burden has resulted in chronic budget deficits.

On the other hand, they also receive a number of invitations where the costs are covered by the host institution such travel will, at times, be combined with UNIDIR's missions, thereby reducing costs to the Institute.

More immigration would strengthen skills and raise income levels, while reducing distressed countries expenditure on unemployment benefits.

Suddenly Obama was here to fix things, while reducing our problems to the size of a footnote.

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

For example, in a study that looked at 40 villages over 16 years, the economist Yao Yang found that the introduction of elections had led to increased spending on public services by 20 , while reducing spending on administrative costs bureaucratese for corruption by 18 .

Of this total an estimated 1.9 trillion are direct costs such as medical care, while 0.2 trillion are indirect costs such as missed work.

Within this increasingly complex environment, UNICEF will pursue funding strategies that support common approaches to reducing transaction costs, streamlining operational processes and producing measurable results.

Shale gas could cut the cost of reducing CO2 seven times more while actually helping Europe s ailing economy.

Understanding and reducing these health inequalities remains a major public policy challenge worldwide. It is not only a moral issue health inequalities carry significant economic costs.

Borrowing costs are rising for highly indebted sovereigns, credit rationing is undermining small and medium size companies, and falling commodity prices are reducing exporting countries income.