than 1 per cent of the total cost of peace keeping operations

Centrally administered costs of the Department of Peacekeeping Operations

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.

It is expected that, with the rising costs for peace keeping operations, one of the most heated arguments in the years ahead will be the apportionment of peace keeping expenses among Member States.

The estimates do not include the costs of peace keeping operations which are funded separately.

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.

An area of concern to us is the continued low representation of women in all phases of the peacebuilding process.

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.

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The estimates do not include the cost of peacekeeping operations or the International Tribunals for the Former Yugoslavia and Rwanda.

This methodology is equivalent to less than 1 per cent of the total cost of peace keeping operations.

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.

All delegations were aware that the future of peace keeping operations was at stake when troop contributors were not reimbursed on time.

Participation costs of staff members from peace keeping missions in this type of training will be covered by their respective missions.

Secondly, we must ensure that the permanent Members of the Security Council continue to bear a greater burden of the cost of peace keeping.

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

This would enable the preparation of a cost benefit analysis for the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity.

The current basic systems for allocating regular budget and peace keeping costs were adopted two decades ago.

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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