In particular, OFDI has helped enterprises increase their revenues, assets, profitability, market reach and exports.

All of these measures were intended to reduce expenditure, minimize inventory build up and increase productivity and profitability.

The Profitability of Trust

Improved economic performance, a more favourable policy environment and corporate profitability, as well as an increase in M A activity in the region, are key underlying factors.

While the survey did not capture the profitability indicator, an increase in revenues as a result of OFDI activities for enterprises highlighted in table 3 deserves mentioning.

Productivity and profitability in manufacturing and heavy industries picked up, boosting China s national savings dramatically. Indeed, the huge increase in China s trade surplus in recent years is a consequence not of the renminbi s exchange rate, as many believe, but of the domestic savings increase.

In order to enhance their livelihoods stability and profitability further, pastoralists need to be integrated into the formal economy. Effective trade networks and access to livestock markets would enable them to increase sales substantially.

The impact upon the profitability of cocaine trafficking ought to be great.

Figure 1 Profitability of Longline Fishing in the Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico

They have a poor understanding of the idea of the profitability of credit

With insufficient profits to use for investment, nonfinancial corporations will become increasingly dependent on external finance. As their leverage ratios increase, so will their risk premiums, causing their borrowing costs to rise and undermining their profitability further.

Third, the corporate sector faces a glut of capacity, and a weak recovery of profitability is likely if growth is anemic and deflationary pressures still persist. As a result, businesses are not likely to increase capital spending.

Table 6. Export intensity, profitability and R D intensity of Indian manufacturing SMEs, 1991 2001

56 238. Proposed measures to improve the profitability of the commercial activities of the United Nations

As a direct consequence, the private sector has become sceptical of its very survival and profitability.

OFDI has helped increase the export competitiveness of Indian manufacturing SMEs and their R D intensity (in most years) as compared with those SMEs that did not invest abroad, although profitability did not seem to change through the internationalization process (table 6).

Lastly, science and technology must be used to develop innovative new products and ensure the profitability of enterprises.

A number of indicators could be used, including financial evaluation (profitability) and non financial indicators (survival rate, stability of shareholding).

(iii) Proposed measures to improve the profitability of the commercial activities of the United Nations (resolution 52 220, Part II)

First, executives for whom shared profits already account for a significant portion of income may resist programs that distribute profits to more workers, fearing that their own income would decline. Even when such programs increase overall profitability, they could reduce the profits going to top management and shareholders.

While this may enhance the overall profitability of a firm, it may also imply reduced tax revenue for the home economy.

By improving the currently low profitability of gifts, the products will become an attractive additional contributor to the overall business goals.

UNOPS states that it will need to perform further analyses of its client base in order to determine profitability and future potential.

Concerned further that cultivation of and trafficking in cannabis are on the increase in Africa partly as a result of extreme poverty and the absence of any viable alternative crop and partly because of the profitability of such activity and the high demand for cannabis in other regions of the world,

There is no indication that the ratio will decline anytime soon, which is particularly worrisome, given the low profitability and high borrowing costs that China s industrial enterprises face. Indeed, Chinese firms profitability amounted to just over 6 last year, with 2012 profits for China s 500 largest (mostly state owned) corporations barely exceeding 2 .

The decrease results from the abolition of one General Service (Other level) post in Geneva responsible for cashier functions relating to visitor services, following measures to increase the profitability of the service, and the reassignment of those functions to the Sale of Publications Section, which will now sell tour tickets from its bookshop.

Accordingly, the Board is not in a position to assess the basis and reasonableness of assumptions or the impact on UNOPS competitiveness and profitability.

They include increased competitiveness of firms, knowledge and technology acquisition, market expansion abroad and increased profitability, including as a result of economies of scale.

It also takes steps to improve training quality, arrange for its classification and define criteria for measuring the quality and profitability of vocational activities.

Currency undervaluation is such a potent instrument for growth for the simple reason that it creates incentives for the economy s growth promoting sectors. It increases the profitability of manufacturing and non traditional agricultural sectors, which are the activities with both the highest level of labor productivity and with the most rapid rates of productivity increase.

Improved profitability at the micro level will be reflected in higher national income, improved foreign exchange earnings and more employment opportunities at the national level.

It is generally recognized that SSEs face unique problems which affect their growth and profitability and hence diminish their ability to contribute effectively to sustainable development.

The United Nations system should encourage investors to consider only the criteria of security and profitability in their initiatives for the production of goods and services.

The decision points out the need for available resources to be assigned according to the criteria of territorial equity, profitability for the community and economic efficiency.

The project is community based, and benefits groups of women already involved in income generating activities by guaranteeing a loan to improve the profitability of their activity.

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A comparison of prices and profitability in the regulated and protected cattle feed industry with those in the electronics industry (for which trade protection had been liberalized) in the Republic of Korea showed that the former s profitability and divergence from international prices were much higher than the latter apos s, even though the electronics industry was highly concentrated. See Sung Taik Han, op. cit.

Films with costs in the lowest range between US 100 million and US 125 million delivered the worst performance in profitability, and only one third of them earned money.

If any of the profit from retail sale returns to drug trafficking organizations, perhaps from connected cells of retail distributors, the profitability of international drug trafficking will be greater.

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The temporary abolition of elected village, district, and national level governments in 2002, and the political insurgency from the Maoist movement, have affected the sustainability and profitability of Community Forestry.