We had marginal profit I did.

Mr. OMOTADE (Nigeria) said that his delegation noted the marginal increase in the collection rate for the first quarter of 2005, and hoped that the trend would improve service delivery.

We had marginal profits, and we had unhappy stakeholders.

Somewhere in the Amazon forest is the marginal tree.

There is only a marginal difference between the two.

It took note of the marginal increase in the collection rate of 2005 assessed contributions in the first three months of the year, and hoped that that positive trend would provide impetus to improve service delivery.

According to the investment bank UBS, new urban housing supply has far exceeded marginal underlying demand from urban population growth. Indeed, almost half of the formal increase is not an increase at all, but merely recognition of rural workers who have been living and working in cities for some time.

They calculated that 75 to 80 of economic growth did not come from increasing the capital output ratio at least not if the private marginal product of capital was taken as an indicator of the social marginal product. Instead, the keys to growth and development appeared to lie beyond an increase in capital intensity as measured by capital output ratios skills, education, technology broadly understood, and improvements in organizational management.

In other words, the minds on the margin are not the marginal minds.

Yet, the participation of many developing countries in global trade has been marginal.

Most importantly, it is the source of livelihood for many economically marginal communities.

The Secretary General had recommended eliminating several reports, meetings, and activities of marginal usefulness.

A related event is the Marginal Field Financing Workshop, held in Abuja, Nigeria, on 20 and 21 April 2005, and aimed at exploring potential solutions to problems associated with attempts to increase the share of local companies in the oil and gas sector.

Under land management, adaptation options included afforestation, reforestation of marginal lands and protection of arable land.

Some countries stated that they are concerned about the long term sustainability of their arid and marginal regions.

In 2004 the Organisation launched a project for sustainable management of marginal arid areas in north Africa and Asia.

Thirdly, there is a pervasive tendency by institutions and Governments to accord marginal importance to youth organizations and issues.

Because of the capital utilization effect, the capital labor ratio would not, in fact, decline, and hence there would be no significant effect on the marginal productivity of hours worked. The theoretical effect on employment is unambiguously positive, because marginal workers will be more productive as they work longer.

In the health sector, UNICEF, in partnership with the World Bank and the World Health Organization (WHO), has developed a prioritization method called marginal budgeting for bottlenecks (MBB) that first identifies implementation cost restraints in the health system and then estimates the marginal costs of overcoming these constraints.

We are disappointed that the participation of marine scientists from developing countries in marine scientific research has progressively become marginal.

The consumption discount rate should account for the possibility that, as consumption grows, the marginal unit of consumption may be considered to have less social value. This is analogous to the idea of diminishing marginal private utility of private consumption, and is relatively uncontroversial, although researchers disagree on its magnitude.

This situation, combined with marginal bank lending and low levels of official development assistance, undermined the efforts to meet the Millennium Development Goals.

The figures include a provision for swing space and for 20 per cent marginal growth expected over the next 10 to 15 years.

However, as clearly explained in the report to which I just referred, the participation of many developing countries in global trade remains marginal.

The campaign fulfilled its objectives the topic that was previously completely marginal now attracted the interest of the media as well as politicians.

Going over the fiscal cliff would have had the attraction of seriously cutting government spending, although the composition of the cuts nothing from entitlements and too much from defense was unattractive. The associated revenue increase was, at least, across the board, rather than the unbalanced hike in marginal tax rates at the top that was enacted.

Income redistribution may be an attractive idea for some including, to a lesser extent, the Republicans who support a watered down version, in which relatively high marginal tax rates support expanded family assistance but it is fool s gold. As a recent Brookings Institution paper shows, higher marginal tax rates would do little to diminish income inequality in the US.

It is clear that the real impact of PCASED on the development of the situation has remained marginal owing to a lack of resources.

So I was discussing this. And I actually went to the Marginal Revolution blog by Tyler Cowen. I don't know if anybody knows it.

The international expansion of enterprises in Latin America takes place primarily in neighbouring countries, and SMEs play a very marginal role, except in Argentina.

The vast majority of the cost comes at the start, in the design of hardware (like sensors) and, more important, in creating the software that produces the capability to carry out various tasks. Once this is achieved, the marginal cost of the hardware is relatively low (and declines as scale rises), and the marginal cost of replicating the software is essentially zero.

1.166 The Agency's Microfinance and Microenterprise Programme (MMP) serves Palestine refugees and other marginal groups to help them mitigate poverty, improve their lives and build business activity.

Other costs, which might represent additional marginal savings, such as office space and electricity, have not been taken into consideration given the preliminary nature of this report.

Some countries stated that they are concerned about long term sustainability of their arid marginal regions, which are highly vulnerable to the adverse effects of climate change.

Climate friendly agricultural technologies and practices, including traditional agricultural methods Afforestation, reforestation and use of marginal land Solid and liquid waste management for the recovery of methane

Studies, using remote sensing data, established a close link between the dynamics of the marginal part of Antarctic Ice Sheet and the hydro meteorological conditions near the coast.

Minority communities' trust in Kosovo's political and administrative systems remains low, and their involvement in the political process and in senior levels of the civil service remains marginal.

UNICEF intends to increase its support to this step by working with such partners as the World Bank and the World Health Organization (WHO) to develop, test, apply and evaluate a spectrum of tools intended to improve priority setting, planning and results based budgeting at national and subnational levels. Examples include the Marginal Budgeting for Bottlenecks tool or the tools under development by the WHO Choice project.

More broadly, the ECB s marginal lending facility is an indirect means of monetizing sovereign debt. It is an even less direct way to address the private, related debt overhang.

Unfortunately, advanced countries have implemented very little fundamental tax reform so far. Many governments are giving in to higher marginal tax rates rather than overhauling and simplifying the system.

Finally, in addition to extending Bush s tax cuts, Romney promises an across the board 20 reduction in marginal personal income tax rates and a significant cut in the corporate rate to encourage businesses to hire more workers. Despite large cuts in marginal income tax rates at the start of the Bush administration, however, job growth between 2000 and 2007 was half the rate of the previous three decades.

This increase reflects the large increase in funding for HIV AIDS.

From this perspective, a shortcoming of the US individual income tax system is that marginal tax rates are high at the bottom (because of means testing of welfare programs) and the top (because of the graduated rate structure). Thus, the government has moved in the wrong direction since 2009, sharply raising marginal tax rates at the bottom (by dramatically increasing transfer programs) and, more recently, at the top (by raising tax rates on the rich).

The increase is also directly associated with the increase in posts proposed.

Since the Comprehensive Peace Agreement emphasizes federalism, the balance of powers, democratic representation for marginal groups and good governance, its implementation would fundamentally change the relationship between the central Government and the states.