This could only increase suspicion and distrust.

An increase in customer complaints could signal a decline in business.

Melting polar icecaps could also contribute to an increase in sea levels.

Does OFDI increase competitiveness of firms and how could competitiveness from OFDI be measured?

One option could be to increase the number of ad litem judges from nine to 12.

We are also cognizant that development investments that fail to appropriately consider disaster risks could increase vulnerability.

However, the rise in oil prices could jeopardize the progress made if the increase is maintained in 2005.

Based on the Monterrey Consensus, resources for development could be expected to increase in the years to come.

It had made the payments scheduled for 2004 and 2005 and hoped that its payments could increase in future.

This could help countries to understand that OFDI could be a useful instrument at a microeconomic level, one which helps firms to increase competitiveness and integrate into the global economy.

c These figures could increase considerably as a result of the institution of new proceedings. See para. A.7.1 above.

The impact of an increase in the retirement age on unemployment could be offset to some extent by implementing pension reforms along with labour market reforms to increase the flexibility of the labour market.

It will take imagination, cooperation, and hard work. Greater involvement by business could increase the likelihood of getting there by 2030.

In that regard, we urge the parties concerned to stop the violence and all acts that could increase tensions and confrontation.

The exponential increase in international trade had led to a corresponding increase in commercial disputes and, in that connection, the importance of arbitration as a means of resolving international commercial disputes could not be overemphasized.

Integration of the informal sector into the formal economy could increase contribution of the informal sector to economic growth and poverty eradication.

By basing economic policy on this experience, we could not only avert Olson s grim prophecy. We could also accelerate economic recovery, increase the pace of innovation, and raise livelihoods for millions of people worldwide.

And so, in effect, you could see perhaps a tenfold increase in the ability to get around as far as speed is concerned.

Generally speaking, we could do more to increase the sharing of information on early warning so that it is followed by early action.

Nothing could be more harmful today to the effective performance of the world economy than the steady increase in the price of fuel.

In the longer term, a flexible and effective legal framework for security rights could serve as a useful tool to increase economic growth.

It was, of course, nice that world leaders could agree that it would be bad to risk the devastation that could be wrought by an increase in global temperatures of more than two degrees Celsius.

Targeted measures to increase opportunities for education among slum dwellers could strengthen their role as agents of change and partners in slum community improvement.

Visible reforms could remedy the situation, and he hoped that the triennial comprehensive policy review would increase awareness of the urgent need for action.

However, 10 of 24 countries analysed saw an increase in undernourishment or could not reduce it enough to be on track to reach the target.

The ultimate goal could be to increase health expectancy for women and girls, and to narrow the gap in health expectancy between countries and groups.

While resources must be used efficiently, it was hard to understand how new challenges could be met with a regular budget that did not increase.

For example, in Argentina aridity could expand in subtropical areas (north of latitude 40 S) due to an increase in temperature and evaporation, whereas in Armenia and Kazakhstan the arid area could expand by 20 40 per cent.

Once these risks are identified and prioritised, a more detailed and focused assessment on how to improve the reliability of specific munition natures could be undertaken and an approximate cost estimate to implement this increase in reliability could be determined.

Cooperation at the conceptual and operational levels could increase rapidly, because the World Bank and WFP consider the MDG and PRSP approaches to be common strategic guidelines.

A current issue that could also threaten to imperil the global economy, and which this Organization should address, is the prolonged and sustained increase in oil prices.

It was irrelevant in this context whether such an increase could have been introduced retroactively and whether it would have had any beneficial effect for the author.

A minimum of 20 to 30 inches of increase in sea levels is the best case that we can hope for, and it could be 10 times that.

Funds and programmes seeking to increase the reliability of core funding could consider introducing a system of assessed contributions for meeting core expenses that guarantee their basic functioning.

Hence, according to Iraq, any increase in salinity, which is a key parameter in the claim unit, could only have resulted from mismanagement of water used for irrigation.

However, because statistics for the period prior to July 2004 were not available, OIOS could not determine whether there had been an increase in user interest in comparison with the period prior to July 2004 and, if so, what the nature and extent of this increase was.

A second unit (TEMISAT 2) was manufactured together with the first one it is stored on the ground and could be launched to increase the in orbit service capacity.

But greater wealth for the rich does not necessarily produce much extra spending. It does increase inequality and threaten asset bubbles, which could lead to a new financial crash.

With greater support from national and local governments, the indigenous entrepreneurship and creative potential of the informal sector operators could be tapped and small informal enterprises could grow into more productive formal enterprises which would yield employment, growth and a significant increase in tax revenues.

So because of this, we could deal with the problem simply by stopping reducing emissions, and just as the concentrations go up, we can increase the amount of geo engineering.

He emphasized the need to encourage collaboration between governments and corporations so as to increase the opportunities for governments to avail themselves of the positive contributions that corporations could make.

Greater administrative efficiency and an increase in resources for project development could be achieved if UNIDO's thematic priorities were brought into line with the interests of the main international donors.

Iraq further argues that, in any event, the oil well fires could not have caused the asserted increase in the number of cases of malaria, tuberculosis, viral hepatitis, and anaemia.

The implementation of a national anti missile defence system could trigger an arms race and lead to the development of more advanced missile systems and an increase in nuclear weapons.

As the value added provided by UNIDO is in direct relation to the size of the combined regular and operational budgets, the desirable increase in services provided by UNIDO could only be secured either through a real increase in the regular budget, or through a greater volume of voluntary contributions.