This would reduce transaction costs and trading risks.

These networks enable firms to share risks and costs and to access markets.

OIOS believes that in developing the exit strategy, the costs and risks associated with the envisaged withdrawal should be assessed against the costs and risks of redeployment, should the peace process collapse prematurely.

However, attendant risks and costs may need to be addressed through appropriate policies and measures.

Today, United Nations staff faces an unprecedented level of risks and threats, and UNICEF notes with concern increasing security costs (both centrally shared costs and direct costs at each location).

20. Reasonable assurance signifies a satisfactory level of confidence under given considerations of costs, benefits and risks.

This reduces the risks and costs of trafficking, since heroin is of higher value per unit weight than opium.

UNICEF agrees to monitor information and communication technology benefits, costs and risks in accordance with information technology standards and existing governance processes.

Delaying the conclusion of the Doha Round negotiations carries costs and risks for the entire world economy, rich and poor countries alike.

Through the use of such services, countries could reduce costs and the risks associated with designing, launching and operating their own satellite systems.

None is costless or risk free. Moreover, neither the costs nor the risks are possible to calculate with precision.

SMEs are affected the most owing to the higher risks and transaction costs, especially compared to loan size, associated with lending to them.

The Bush administration may be correct in arguing that the extremely high costs and risks of promoting democracy are less than the costs and risks of allowing the authoritarian status quo in the Middle east to persist indefinitely. But democracy is not the only instrument for a transformation that addresses the roots of terrorism.

Burden sharing by making borrowers and lenders pay the full costs of their risks, will strengthen the financial sector and will minimize the adverse effects.

Factory farming is passing far bigger costs and risks on to all of us. In economic terms, these costs should be internalized by the factory farmers rather than being shifted onto the rest of us.

If you don't understand the risks, you don't understand the costs, you're likely to get the trade off wrong, and your feeling doesn't match reality.

We know from our work around the continent that transaction costs of reaching the market, and the risks of transacting in rural, agriculture markets, are extremely high.

And why should government should pay the costs anyway? Because private companies reap the benefits of the trials that do succeed, they should also shoulder the risks.

Comparable options have still to emerge for the technologies for adaptation where potential technology transfer is associated with insufficient incentive regimes, increased risks, and high transaction costs.

By combining their knowledge, financial resources and contacts within an export consortium, SMEs can significantly improve their export potential and reduce the costs and risks involved in penetrating foreign markets.

Risks and challenges

This has encouraged a growing number of firms, particularly in the OECD countries, to share the development costs and spread the risks in the adoption of new technologies.

Mission aircraft continue, as in the past, to fly via Djibouti, thereby incurring considerable additional costs and waste of work hours, as well as running increased safety and security risks.

The data acquisition allowed fishermen to obtain information about surface temperature distribution and to reduce operation risks and costs by searching only in areas with a high probability of success.

Such ties can serve to reduce risks and transaction costs by guaranteeing delivery, ensuring quality control, procuring reliable information, minimizing tedious bargaining processes or providing access to informal finance.

Several factors limit Al Qaida and the Taliban's use of military equipment these include arms control measures, market availability, the risks of acquisition, the costs and the need for expertise and training.

(d) The costs, risks and benefits of human activities which may indirectly modify the ozone layer and of the impacts of regulatory actions taken or being considered to control these activities.

SMEs face greater challenges in internationalizing. In particular, they have insufficient or fewer resources to meet the costs of information collection and to overcome uncertainties, risks and obstacles associated with OFDI activities.

We tend to exaggerate spectacular and rare risks and downplay common risks so flying versus driving.

Risks

Even if fortuitous events lead to a better Middle East in another ten years, future historians will criticize the way Bush made his decisions and distributed the risks and costs of his actions.

And then, the systemic risks.

The risks include health risks from overcrowding and poor sanitation, increased vulnerability to natural disasters and risks of eviction and economic vulnerability because of the lack of secure employment.

At the same time, inasmuch as laws and regulations often fail to meet the intended social objectives, they may harm the business environment through imposing unnecessary costs, increasing uncertainty and risks and erecting barriers to competition.

3.1 Assessing the benefits and risks

Firms in the advanced clusters can enhance other clusters as they disperse activities to reduce costs and risks.49 An example is the outsourcing of information technology related tasks to Bangalore in India.

Rosneft has also signed exploration agreements with Statoil, ExxonMobil, and Eni. Of the large oil companies, only one France s Total has argued against Arctic oil exploration and exploitation on the grounds of environmental risks and economic costs.

For both borrowers and creditors, the risks and costs are enormous. The borrower is cut off from international markets, and essential imports can no longer be purchased, while large scale defaults threaten to plunge creditors into insolvency.

20. Lack of territorial access to the sea, aggravated by remoteness and isolation from world markets and prohibitive transit costs and risks, impose serious constraints on the overall socio economic development efforts of the landlocked developing countries.

40. With regard to medium and long term development strategies, Ecuador agreed that internal and external adjustments must be made to optimize the opportunities and benefits of globalization while reducing the risks and costs for the developing countries.

Recurrent costs 1. Military and civilian personnel costs

Due to the relatively high costs and risks at the initial stage, there is an increasing need for these SMEs to be assisted in the use of ICT tools, in particular e business tools.

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(a) Identifying risks and exposure to duplication

(a) To curb and reduce occupational risks