We have significantly lower capital costs in our plant equipment.

This has allowed enterprises, including SMEs, to replace other forms of capital and labour with information technology equipment, thus driving down overall costs.

But as we're seeing, operational costs are starting to dwarf capital costs in terms of design parameters.

The requirements under communications ( 690,000) include non recurrent requirements of 519,600 for the acquisition of VHF UHF and HF equipment, satellite equipment, switching equipment, test and workshop equipment and other communications equipment, such as a videoconferencing terminal, solar power system and freight costs.

Technical options for waste water treatment range from capital intensive conventional treatment systems to alternative systems with lower capital costs.

Also, the Integrated Industrial Capital Allowance (IICA) allows companies to claim capital allowances for approved expenditure on plant and equipment used in overseas subsidiaries.

In addition, the capital master plan would continue to incur more support costs and other operating costs on account of prolonged delays.

33. Requests the Secretary General to ensure a more consistent presentation of proposed expenditure on information technology related services and equipment for the biennium 2004 2005, detailing the maintenance and unit costs for equipment and making a full distinction between internal and external costs

Moreover, if financial institutions follow their own risk assessments when estimating appropriate capital cushions, the costs associated with such provisions decline. Better repayment prospects and lower regulatory capital costs then fuel the asset based financing of further acquisition of assets.

Together with other increases in recurring costs for maintenance of security equipment, UNIDO's contribution increased by 79 per cent.

Provision is therefore made for internal audit ( 1,195,500) to cover costs of general temporary assistance ( 908,000), consultancy ( 250,000), travel of staff ( 10,000) and training, equipment, communications and supplies, furniture and equipment ( 27,500).

The Working Group on Contingent Owned Equipment met from 23 February to 5 March 2004 and addressed issues grouped into four areas major equipment self sustainment troop costs and medical support services.

The increase is attributable to requirements in respect of the additional contingent personnel, including reimbursement for troop costs and major equipment, emplacement of troops, rations and freight and deployment of contingent owned equipment.

Forced subsidiarization causes capital and liquidity to be trapped in local legal entities, reducing the effectiveness with which that capital is used. At a time when bank capital is scarce, that impediment carries significant economic costs.

Personnel (human resources), equipment, and operating costs of financial police are provided from the resources of the Ministry of the Interior.

(b) Rental of office equipment for the additional staff in New York ( 100), Vienna ( 500) and Nairobi ( 500), based on standard costs

The estimate for communications, including 28,880,800 for the 2004 05 financial period and 12,959,300 for the period from 1 July to 31 October 2005, covers the acquisition of communications equipment, including VHF, UHF and HF radio equipment, satellite equipment, telephone equipment and other communications and workshop equipment, and commercial communications costs and support services for the establishment of the communications infrastructure and related spare parts.

The remaining portion represents support costs and items budgeted centrally, including working capital and area staff salary increase requirements.

The economic and physical capital costs to the Palestinian economy of the past five years of hostilities continue to mount.

There is an outflow of capital from developing regions either to meet those rising costs or to be invested in the developed world, leaving those regions woefully short of capital for investment.

Other suppliers of United States manufactured spare parts and equipment had to import the goods from a third country, with a resulting increase in costs.

117. Notes with concern the lack of detail in the proposed programme budget of unit costs for the replacement or acquisition of information technology related equipment

Business capital includes private companies factories, machines, transport equipment, and information systems. Infrastructure includes roads, railways, power and water systems, fiber optics, pipelines, and airports and seaports.

The General Fund and Working Capital Fund now show only UNIDO's contribution to BMS costs. The BMS operations are further split into two components

Total resources requirements for the biennium 2006 2007, including programme support costs and working capital reserve, but excluding possible conference servicing costs, are estimated at US 23,624,000 (EUR 18,185,000) (US 11,740,000 for 2004 and US 11,884,000 for 2005).

The high costs inherent in the acquisition of these items of equipment may put digital image processing of radar data out of the reach of some African institutions.

The equipment of United States manufacture which was part of the platform hired had to be replaced as its use was not authorized, causing delays and increasing costs.

Second, the early success of China infrastructure was built on cheap land, capital, and labor. But, despite modern infrastructure, logistical costs within China are 18 of production costs, compared with 10 in the US, owing to various internal inefficiencies.

Non post resources of 165,800, at the maintenance level, would cover other staff costs ( 71,800) consultants' services to undertake evaluations of regional delivery arrangements ( 15,000) travel of staff ( 26,400) communications ( 19,400) maintenance of office automation equipment ( 25,500) office supplies ( 3,600) and replacement of office automation equipment ( 4,100).

46. Requests the Secretary General to ensure that infrastructure projects approved for Headquarters under the present resolution should not, pending a decision on the capital master plan, incur additional unnecessary costs at a later date under the capital master plan

Second, caution has costs financial openness may itself catalyze improvements in fundamentals that enhance the benefits of globalization. Capital controls, whatever their benefits in terms of mitigating the risks associated with volatile capital flows, are costly in a variety of ways.

The US dollar accounts for 60 of world trade, and the US has the strongest military in the world, making it a safe haven for global investors. But, while large capital inflows reduce borrowing costs, they also tend to cause current account deficits lower costs of capital boost asset prices, with the wealth effect then prompting people to consume more than they earn.

Certainly, China s capital controls, though porous, increase the transaction costs of moving short term capital to and from China, thereby reducing upward pressure on the renminbi s exchange rate in extreme circumstances, this could play a decisive role in China s financial security. But capital continues to flow if not entirely freely across China s borders.

(c) Reduce barriers to long term, non debt creating capital flows, especially FDI, and the costs to migrants of sending their remittances through sanctioned institutional channels.

The variance of 12,129,400 under this heading is attributable primarily to the accelerated deployment of troops and the consequential increased requirements for standard troop costs, rations and contingent owned equipment.

Under non post objects of expenditure, the resources relate to general temporary assistance, overtime, consultants, travel of staff and other operational costs, such as general operating expenses, supplies and equipment.

In an effort to minimize operating costs, the Administration reduced its capital master plan staff from 17 (including Security Service) in 2004 to 14 in March 2005.

Capital buffers to absorb losses during the downturn of the cycle can be more easily built during the upswing. Furthermore, by raising regulatory capital costs in boom times, some counterweight to the pro cyclical bias intrinsic to financial systems would be introduced.

While these maintenance contracts ensure that equipment is kept in good working order, they do not cover the costs of breakdowns or spare parts, or the labour associated with such parts.

To partly offset this increase, the provisions made for other secretariat wide costs under General operating expenses, Acquisition of furniture and equipment and Supplies and materials have been revisited and reduced.

According to Iran, the claim for project expenses relates to expenses due to amortization of equipment and devices, repairs and keeping of bouyants, administrative and staff costs during the postponed period .

Banks magnify the boom by making credit too easily available, and they exacerbate the bust by withdrawing it too abruptly. But the legacy is a more efficient stock of capital equipment.

UNOCI received equipment (vehicles, prefabricated buildings, communications equipment, medical equipment), personnel (contingent owned equipment inspectors, fire marshals, procurement officers, security officers) and air support.

While these maintenance contracts ensure that equipment is kept in good working order, they do not cover the costs of breakdowns or of spare parts, or the labour associated with such parts.

At the end of 2004 payments for most missions, except UNMIK, MINURSO and UNOMIG, were generally running two months behind for troop costs and three to six months for contingent owned equipment.