Other staff costs (increase 698,100)

Increased public sector wage costs mean increased government spending on wages.

However, it should be noted that all United Nations organizations in Bonn will face higher operating costs at the new premises, particularly for electricity, relating to increases in basic office size, lifts, air conditioning and generally higher energy costs.

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

(g) Further reduction of transaction costs for Governments and other partners dealing with the United Nations

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

The cost of childcare was a function of high demand and inadequate supply, which the Government was working to increase.

The Government was working to increase the supply and reduce the cost of childcare, which helped women to continue to work.

(d) Further emphasis on national ownership of the development process, and on coherent international support with lowered transaction 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.

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

With exports of manufactures becoming more expensive, China will have to grow by producing something else.

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

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

A much better way to reduce labor costs would be to increase productivity and Germany is no model in this respect.

The additional requirements under this heading are attributable to the increased costs of medical services provided by private doctors and clinics and the increased costs of medicines and medical supplies combined with the appreciation of the Cyprus pound during the reporting period.

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.

9.62 The amount of 13,982,600 provides for posts including an increase of 474,900 resulting from

In 2002, Alberta Health Care Insurance Plan premiums were increased to cover a greater portion of health care costs.

A reduction in unit labor costs can also increase competitiveness only to the extent that it actually results in price reductions.

There are price freezes on certain subsidized goods and services, and rising inflation makes these subsidies even more expensive for the government.

Increased costs for investment in real assets would help to rein in property prices and reduce over capacity in infrastructure and manufacturing.

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

Additional Compact impact reimbursement is authorized if impact costs rise above the mandatory appropriation of 30 million per year.

Increasing the number of insured by 35 million and broadening protection for some who are now insured implies increased demand for health care, which could raise the cost of care paid for by the government as well as by private health care buyers.

But, because these policies increase the cost of fuel and electricity, they imply layoffs elsewhere, across many different economic sectors.

I don t see any other, more pressing, reforms such as raising income taxes to pay for national security gaining any traction in the Bush regime.

Legal requirements that significantly increase the costs of hiring and firing labor discourage employment creation in new industries.

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.

Those who are willing to engage often demand steep risk premiums that dramatically increase the cost of capital, often to usurious levels.

Reducing the cost of firing workers will not increase demand for labor much when no one wants to hire new workers.

Requests the Executive Director to monitor the ratio between the programme and the support budgets to ensure that support costs are not increased to the detriment of expenditure on programmes

The resources proposed cover the requirements for the new post and the changes in standard salary costs hence the increase of 143,700 under posts and related requirements under non post resources (an increase of 18,900).

(b) Efficient use of process heat and steam reduces industrial fuel consumption resulting in productivity increases, lower energy bills and improved industrial competitiveness

Additional requirements for General Service salaries result mainly from cost of living adjustments for Addis Ababa and Bangkok, as well as an increase of 3.75 per cent in New York.

In assessing the size of the stimulus, countries will balance the cost to their own budgets with the benefits in terms of increased growth and employment for their own economies.

In fact, extending daily working times will, in the medium term, also result in higher employment, because it will increase productivity while labor costs remain constant.

The increased government revenue that this generates (plus the decreased spending on the unemployed) pays for the extra borrowing without having to raise taxes.

The collapse of credit made matters worse and firms, facing high borrowing costs and declining markets, responded quickly, cutting back inventories.

Concerning joint programming, some speakers said that the initiatives seeking greater coherence and streamlining of operational activities would result in lower transaction costs for national counterparts.

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

Other countries, by contrast, face ruinously high borrowing costs, which are simultaneously increasing the scale of their reform challenges and narrowing their political scope to address them.

Increasing the cost of electricity and fuel will hurt productivity, reduce overall employment, and cut the amount of disposable income that people have.

The European Union is a major contributor to the development and effective implementation of evidence based malaria control programmes and to work on increasing the affordability of antimalarial medicines.

Operating costs