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

As a result, environmental protection projects often fail to be included in calculating production costs.

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

The interference of cost push factors contributed to the unexpected persistence of inflation.

A second reason for relatively low inflation in recent years has been a temporary fall in the cost of production.

Production or labour costs constitute only a relatively low proportion of their total operational costs.

The reduction of 46,900 in the costs of internal audit is the net effect of the request made by the Office of Internal Oversight Services.

But by 1966, high production costs forced the series to come to an end after 107 episodes.

The steady increase in production costs, partly attributable to high borrowing costs, is squeezing enterprises profit margins of small and medium sized enterprises in particular.

This could happen only if European companies cut costs and increase productivity.

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

Difficulties in gaining access to production areas, owing to the poor condition of rural roads and security problems in the hinterland, also affected export production.

Europe must find more effective policies that reduce production costs toward German levels.

But costs will come down once series production gets underway Toyota says that it expects to shock the industry with its cost reduction numbers when it launches commercial production.

At the same time, higher agricultural production must be balanced against the associated ecological and social costs.

But what matters are southern Europe s costs of production relative to those of Germany, Europe s export champion.

Sugar beet and cane growers worldwide are struggling to cope with inflation of production costs and drastic decreases in real revenues.

Within the secretariat, in addition to streamlining internal processes and automating production, managerial rigour will be applied to meet the commitment to timeliness.

The inadequate road infrastructure increases the costs of production owing to delays in accessing and shipping products and the high maintenance cost of transport fleets.

From a macroeconomic perspective, China s current inflation is attributable both to demand pull and cost push factors.

Before the euro, countries adjusted misaligned production costs by devaluing or revaluing their exchange rates.

Rising production costs and falling prices for their products is a recipe for indebtedness, and debt is the main cause of farmers suicides.

This is a compromise aimed at minimizing the incentive to gamble with public insurance while allowing some economies of scale for banking activities.

Labor and many product markets remain closed, despite the urgent need to increase competition, lower production costs, and raise productivity.

Push factors (e.g. rising costs in the home market, following competitors and suppliers, corporate internationalization policy) Pull factors (e.g. growth opportunities, investment opportunities in the host country, lower production costs, availability of natural resources, host government incentives) Management factors (e.g. availability of skills and knowledge needed to internationalize successfully) Chance factors (e.g. being invited to supply a customer abroad)

The competitive pressure to lower production costs has also influenced the geographical destinations of these SMEs from Singapore.

The provision under audit costs reflected a reduction in the costs of both external and internal audit, reflecting the resource levels recommended by the Board of Auditors and the Office of Internal Oversight Services.

Yet the farther inland producers went, the less skilled the employees and the higher the costs of transporting goods to market became.

By OIOS estimates, vehicles purchased directly from the manufacturer cost about 15 per cent less (excluding possible discounts).

Likewise, increasing pressure from growing labor costs will force enterprises to lower their profit expectations and cut costs, negatively affecting output growth and employment in the short run.

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.

All this, not production costs, lies at the heart of high oil prices and the scramble for oil contracts in Central Asia and Africa.

As for the constraints relating to communication networks, these are mainly due to the high cost of telephone communications, low Internet access and overall inefficiency of input services.

China s initial globalization dividend, accrued through low factor costs, is rapidly diminishing, and a new era characterized by reliance on the massive domestic market to absorb foreign high level factors of production, such as technology and human capital is just beginning.

In domestic trade, the embargo has increased costs by 66.8 million, mostly as a result of using middlemen for shipping and purchases.

Production costs in terms of labor, resources, regulation, and infrastructure have been rising domestically, while consumption bubbles in the West have burst.

Labor reform leading to longer hours would not reduce the total income of the employed, but it would reduce production costs.

Traders seeking Fairtrade certification must pay producers a price that covers the costs of sustainable production and provides a living wage.

That, in turn, implies the need for a real exchange rate adjustment inside the eurozone, with peripheral countries production costs falling relative to those in the core.

The higher cost of production incurred to reduce emissions and of any emissions tax still due would, of course, be included in the price charged to consumers.

Even in a situation with relatively slow demand growth and weak prices, new capacity may still be added successfully if production costs are low enough.

In order to continue doing so, they need to be competitive in terms of production costs, and the trading environment has to allow competitive advantages to be decisive.

Sugar was the primary export from the 1940s on, but rising production costs, low world market prices, and the government's efforts to reduce dependence on it have led to a growing diversification of the agricultural sector.

a To provide for internal oversight functions for the first six months of 2002 as detailed in document A C.5 56 30.

That said, Europe s disparities in production costs and competitiveness, reflected in the problem countries substantial current account deficits, may prove to be an even more difficult problem to resolve.