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

The cost of inaction would be considerably higher than the required investment.

For farmers, this means higher costs for seed corporations, higher profits.

So, if a breakup is unavoidable, delaying it implies much higher costs.

The adjustment might come about through wage increases in countries with lower labor costs, rather than cuts in countries where costs are too high.

It is no secret that sovereign bonds carry significantly higher borrowing costs than concessional debt does.

If making a product in the EU costs more because of higher energy costs, the product will likely be made somewhere else, where energy is cheaper, and then imported into the EU.

Higher transactions taxes increase the cost of capital, ultimately lowering investment.

The Panel also notes that only 12,000 visits occurred at the Al Riggae Centre, and that the Al Riggae Centre costs are higher than the costs for psychological treatment at other facilities in Kuwait.

The challenge is to identify policy circuit breakers that have relatively high benefit cost ratios.

Production costs in other heavily indebted countries were 20 25 higher than in Germany.

Capture costs are estimated to be higher than from point sources, but may be feasible for dealing with emissions from diffuse sources such as automobiles and aircraft.

Thus, they run the risk that a spike in interest rates would feed back relatively quickly into higher borrowing costs.

The wiser course, however, is to make the necessary investments today, thereby averting a much larger bill tomorrow.

The companies can recover their expenses thanks to patents, which give them a temporary monopoly and thus allow them to charge prices well above the cost of producing the drugs.

Higher debt service costs require higher tax rates, which in turn weaken incentives and reduce economic growth.

As a result, German banks have a lower cost of funding and all else being equal higher profitability.

According to a study by the US consulting firm Jassin O Rourke, labor costs in China are higher than in seven other Asian countries.

Emphasizing that the efforts made by developing countries to reduce illicit drug supply carry a proportionally higher price in political, economic and social terms,

We must re evaluate the distorted political economy of the financial sector, before the excessive power of the few imposes even larger costs on everyone else.

Residents in poor localities tend to pay higher costs for basic goods and services than those in richer areas especially for credit, water and medication.

Even though new standards would apply to suppliers from all exporting countries, compliance costs usually vary, meaning that those less equipped to meet higher standards could suffer.

But the biggest problem in these analyses is that they often fail to recognize the higher costs or job losses that these policies will cause.

Up, up, up.

When the crisis began, production costs in Greece were about 30 higher than in Germany, so Greece exported very little and imported very much.

The euro is also a global reserve currency (albeit of secondary importance), but most eurozone governments financing costs are much higher than what the US Treasury pays.

On the other hand, the increased cost would be offset to some extent by lower cost imported inputs, and foreign affiliates could expect to repatriate higher profits from sales in China in terms of their own currencies.

Middle income families also insist on buying homes, despite the highest multiple of home price to income among advanced economies and a housing finance system that imposes high borrowing costs.

This suggests that domestic reforms aimed at reducing issuance costs, improving disclosure requirements, enhancing creditors rights frameworks, and tackling other inhibiting factors could bring high returns.

Why should emerging market countries central banks undertake this peculiar financial intermediation, which represents a major cost, as the yield of private funds is higher than that of reserves?

Global food prices are the highest they have been since the United Nations started tracking them in 1990, pushed up largely by increases in the cost of corn.

With that sentence, Draghi eliminated the perceived re denomination tail risk that was highest in the case of Greece, but that was driving up borrowing costs in Spain, Italy, and Portugal as well.

Non investment costs had been higher in the past, although they had not included agency support costs, and he noted that most of those non investment costs had already been approved.

Plants in densely populated areas with lower safety standards, for example, would face higher insurance costs, which could lead to a self selected phase out of the riskiest plants.

France is southern in its current account deficit, but northern in its borrowing costs (slightly above Germany s), owing partly to inflows of capital fleeing the south, as well as to modest but positive economic growth.

Moreover, they argue that the cost of any increase in required equity capital would simply be passed on to borrowers in the form of higher interest rates, bringing economic growth to a grinding halt.

The idea behind FedEx was simple and compelling The cost of complexity was higher than the cost of air transport, so the company would ship all its packages overnight to Memphis, Tennessee.

Under Safe Harbor, the EU afforded the transfer of commercial data between the EU and the US despite the EU s higher standards for privacy protections, provided that signatory US companies agree to comply with a set of privacy principles.

So higher levels of fecal coliform require higher levels of chlorine, threatening those aquatic organisms.

I suggest that the cost of those visits is probably greater than the cost of actually locating an official within the State.

The necessity to pursue its own rights before state courts as opposed to arbitration proceedings as a consequence of an arbitral tribunal's denial of jurisdiction might in fact result for the party, who initiated the arbitration proceedings, in higher legal costs and a waste of time.

The cost of incarcerating two million Americans one of the highest per capita rates in the world should be viewed as a subtraction from GDP, yet it is added on.

The ceramic package was more expensive, but it dissipated heat more effectively than plastic.

Please speak more loudly.

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