These benefits can increase the overall value of a business.

Haldane bases his analysis on the trend in the Gross Value Added (GVA) of the financial sector.

(d) Size of the contingency fund expressed as a percentage of the overall level of resources

Some in Mexico claimed that the total value of the cargo was about 2,000,000 pesos.

The share of gross value added generated by the agricultural and services sectors in the total gross value added of the region is above the national average in 2000, whereas the share of industry is below.

The sector s domestic value chain is woefully weak.

In 2004, total merchandise exports of the ESCWA member countries reached 297 billion, while total imports reached 194 billion.

For example, the total arrears for wages as of 1 February 2003 for all sectors of the economy was 29.1 million somoni.

Over the next decade, global competition will come to be defined as competition over the global value chain.

The Alps are a high mountain range running across the central south of the country, comprising about 60 of the country's total area.

The total value of ITNs and insecticide procured was 32 million, compared to 17.2 million the year before.

By forming cooperatives, they can move up the value chain into the processing, packaging, and marketing of their produce.

It only means that the total volume of German exports has been rising faster than the total German value added in those exports.

The overall trade weighted value of the renminbi has thus declined significantly, particularly relative to the currencies of the emerging market countries with which Chinese producers compete.

Emerging economies scale is growing, and their positioning on the global value chain is shifting rapidly.

Over the last 160 years, the GVA of finance has grown by two percentage points a year faster than that of the economy as a whole.

In the US, financial sector GVA was only 2 of the total in the 1950s, but stands at 8 today.

As a result, most of the value chain for the fossil fuel and mining sectors continues to be outside the continent.

In Hawaii, the total value from industrial longliners was 47.4 million in 1999, a decline from 53.4 million in 1993.

Looking at the full range of countries with which China trades implies that the overall value of the renminbi probably declined in the past 12 months.

Through the Agricultural Machinery Industrial System, all income generation equipment, essential for the exploitation of the value chain, is supported.

The strengthening of the value chain not only raises farmers incomes, but also empowers crop diversification and farm upgrading more generally.

Among industrial activities, the manufacturing sector contributes to the gross value added of the secondary sector with 64 of the total, while the building sector contributes 24 .

Obstacles to transport and trade include differing standards and regulations, inadequate transport infrastructure, insufficient use of information and communication technologies (ICT), and lack of liability and cargo insurance and protection for national operators.

Second, in accordance with China s 12th Five Year Plan, the free trade zone aims to extend the industrial value chain and improve value added content, promote the coordination of domestic and foreign investment in manufacturing, and strengthen the sector s classification and assessment capacity.

The move to higher value added links of domestic and global supply chains will require more effective education and expanded investment in the economy s intellectual and technological underpinnings.

Along China s dynamic coastal belt, local governments are drafting new economic blueprints to push their firms up the value added chain.

So far, China has looked to external markets so that exporters can achieve the economies of scale needed to improve quality and move up the value chain.

In manufacturing, it deters poor countries from moving up the value chain as tariffs on their exports increase with the degree of processing.

Indeed, for France s political leaders, business amounts to a zero sum competition to capture a higher share of total value added for owners and managers, at the expense of labor.

As Chinese manufacturing moved up the value chain, firms increasingly replaced workers with machines embodying the latest technologies.

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As a result, the total value of imports is expected to exceed 10 trillion in only two years, providing lucrative investment opportunities and broader markets to foreign investors.

In times of crisis, SWFs not only invest a smaller proportion of their portfolios abroad and divest from some foreign holdings, but the total value of their investments tends to shrink as well.

The Value of Being Undervalued

Whereas the original concept of IP involved shielding industries from international competition, today s world requires integrating local productive capacity in global value chains.

By comparison, the project's total cost by the end of 1945 was about 90 of the total spent on the production of US small arms (not including ammunition) and 34 of the total spent on US tanks during the same period.

Each link in the value chain, from the smallholder to the local trade agents and agro processors to regional and national markets, needs to be strengthened.

A new customs component to a highway project between Phnom Penh and Ho Chi Minh City helped increase the total value of trade through the Moc Bai Bavet border by 40 over three years.

Thus, rather than tying executive pay to a specified percentage of the value of the bank s common shares, compensation could be tied to a specified percentage of the aggregate value of the bank s common shares, preferred shares, and all the outstanding bonds issued by the bank.

The total proposed UNEP support budget for the biennium 2006 2007 amounts to 26.1 million, a decrease of 0.9 million from the amount of 27 million approved for the biennium 2004 2005.

) If the fair value is less than carrying value (impaired), the goodwill value needs to be reduced so the carrying value is equal to the fair value.

This does not mean that the German made share of exports is falling in absolute terms. It only means that the total volume of German exports has been rising faster than the total German value added in those exports.

Aside from abandoning the one child policy, China could avoid this outcome by climbing the value chain in manufacturing and services, as Hong Kong, Singapore, South Korea, and Taiwan have done.