Delegations expressed concern regarding increasing costs for rent, security and human resources.

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).

(b) Enhanced information management and use of latest system and technology development to contain increasing staff costs

ITD will continue to contain the growth of maintenance costs in an environment of increasing demand and usage.

The conference room paper gives explanations for increasing costs, and indicates proposals currently under consideration to give a more realistic picture of UNHCR s Programme Delivery and Administrative Support costs.

In particular, corruption hinders economic growth and investment by increasing transaction costs, thus diverting public funds from their planned allocation.

Even with such a large share of expenditure on staff costs, available human resources fell short of ever increasing demands.

Rapid urbanization, increasing population and investment costs and poor maintenance of established systems have made progress slow and sometimes unsustainable.

High construction and land costs are the main reasons for the inability to meet the ever increasing demand for such housing.

Privatization and liberalization have produced mixed results, either increasing prices for the poor or entailing other adjustment costs (e.g. loss of employment).

(iii) Clustering of enterprises and free trade zones could help in promoting diversification by increasing forward and backward linkages and lowering transaction costs.

57. As regards third party claims and arbitration costs, the Advisory Committee has expressed concern at the increasing frequency of large claim submissions.

The efficiency of financial intermediation is increasing, and as a result borrowing costs are slowly being lowered and deposit rates are being raised.

At the beginning of 2005, the designs were further revised with the view to reducing the construction and operation costs, while increasing the function.

Concern about increasing environmental contamination is leading to the realization that industrial threats to worker health are directly linked to public health issues and costs.

Despite technological advances, decreasing costs and increasing quot user friendliness quot , the potential offered by those technologies had not yet been fully assessed or realized.

Since then the costs of implementation, resulting from both arms destruction and treaty verification obligations, have been of increasing concern in multilateral and bilateral negotiations.

502. On account of the increasing costs of medicines, a new so called intentional benefit for medicines has been introduced and is paid from social welfare.

Others said that any further reductions should be reviewed in the context of the ongoing United Nations reform process. 52. Several delegations, however, expressed their concern that administrative costs were increasing, and stressed that such costs should be kept down.

Equity demanded that if there were increasing costs associated with family situations, then the relevant allowances should be adjusted for all employees regardless of their performance ratings.

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Approves a supplementary budget appropriation of 3 million to cover additional security related costs in the 2004 2005 biennial support budget (E ICEF 2005 AB L.7), thus increasing from 14 million to 17 million the security related costs for the biennium.

The costs of operating, maintaining and repairing the buildings and their integrated installations are increasing with the ageing of the complex, which was constructed between 1974 and 1979.

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.

Although smaller firms with lower sunk costs can display more flexibility, in cases where increasing returns to scale prevail, larger firms will tend to enjoy better preconditions for diversifying.

This led to falling repayment rates as clients were unable to enter the branch offices to make payments on loans, rising portfolio at risk and increasing costs to the programme.

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355. In the light of the increasing costs that parents of children attending school are having to bear, assistance in the form of scholarships constitutes significant support for a Polish family.

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There was widespread support for efforts that could be made to assist in measuring performance within an organization's procurement function as well as determining costs of procurement, thereby increasing efficiency and effectiveness.

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31. The Government continues to pursue a policy of increased home ownership, both to alleviate the housing shortage and to reduce the burden of increasing repair and maintenance costs for its rented accommodations.

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Recurrent costs 1. Military and civilian personnel costs