How is this possible? After all, higher productivity should bring lower unit labor costs.

Governments could afford the cost of the subsidies since cutting unemployment would not only lower public security costs, but would also reduce the need for welfare programs.

Health care costs in the US are exorbitant, with low value for money.

Common staff costs were lower than in 2002 for reasons of lower staff turnover.

Improvements in market competition, technologic standards and transparency have resulted in a considerable drop in the costs of remittances' transfer.

The result was a dramatic reduction in the British state s borrowing costs and the emergence of a well functioning capital market, which caused private borrowing costs to fall as well.

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

It expects costs for the fuel cell stacks, the heart of the drive train, to decline as much as 90 .

A substantial reduction in the budgeted cost of electricity has resulted over time owing to reduced troop strength and reconfiguration of the mission.

Savings were realised under local travel which was lower with a reduced number of in country travel.

The result is an increase in the cost of capital to firms, which lowers investment and exacerbates the crisis.

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

The increase under salary costs is due to the lower than budgeted vacancy rates for the biennium 2004 2005.

27. Savings were due to the lower charges incurred for cleaning and security services and for the maintenance of office equipment and generator sets.

Even those Chinese households that do not buy imported goods would benefit, because the lower cost of imported raw materials would reduce the cost of goods produced in China.

With respect to maintenance of equipment, the reduced requirements are mainly owing to lower maintenance costs for vehicles resulting from a reduction in the size of the vehicle fleet and lower usage of vehicles in the field as a result of the reduced number of investigation missions, and lower requirements for maintenance of communication and data processing equipment.

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

Moreover, because crude oil is priced in US dollars, a rise in the euro means a fall in energy costs.

To manage exorbitant demand for financial and physical assets, China s leaders must address its root cause the low cost of capital.

The low costs of finance facilitated global investment, thereby contributing to the acceleration of global growth in 2004.

Higher import costs and lower export earnings combined to reduce the competitiveness of landlocked developing countries.

Savings of 2,700 for commercial freight were attributed to lower freight costs than budgeted.

Indeed, despite a 1.3 drop in real wages in 2011, unit labor costs remained unchanged.

Savings arising from lower translation and reproduction costs for documents of the policy making organs have been partly offset by increased staffing levels of the Secretariat of the Policy making Organs.

This was the result of a sharp decline in support cost revenue from UNDP and UNFPA.

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

(e) Deployment of fewer than projected vehicles resulting in lower costs for petrol, oil and lubricants

The lower average troop strength resulted in reduced requirements for standard troop cost reimbursement, recreational leave and daily allowance for troops, and contingent owned equipment.

(i) Lower than budgeted costs for rations and the installation of water purifications units, which made the mission self sufficient in potable water

The lower average troop strength resulted in reduced requirements for standard troop cost reimbursement, rotation and repatriation travel of military contingent members, rations, recreational leave and daily allowance for troops, and deployment of contingent owned equipment.

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The savings under commercial communications were owing to lower INMARSAT user charges and to lower costs for telephone, telex and facsimile charges than originally budgeted for.

In fact, owing to the unpredictability in sustaining the administrative and related costs, a decline in voluntary contributions for substantive activities has already been felt.

(v) Reduced flying hours owing to reduced requirements for aircraft

This could be an explicit devaluation or an implicit one due to a price reduction, made possible by the reduction in unit production costs resulting from the extra working time at constant pay.

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

Their finance ministers, while euphoric at their countries record low borrowing costs, must have understood that it might not last.

The Ministers noted that decreasing costs of communications and easy access to Internet services now afforded Member Countries an unprecedented opportunity to increase information linkages among them.

Decreased requirements under the category of rental of premises pertain to lower rental costs associated with the field offices and lower requirements under cleaning of premises.

The sanctions also resulted in a decrease in the volume of means of transportation in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, increased operating costs and the blockade of Yugoslav offices and assets abroad.

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(d) Lower incomes.

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lower energy states.