(ii) Amount of efficiency gains resulting from business process improvements .

It's increased our dependence on foreign oil despite the gains in fuel efficiency.

There are potential gains as well as risks in this approach.

Toward this goal, UNRWA aims to achieve a series of efficiency gains and savings.

The majority of project proposals in the industrial sector target energy efficiency gains, in particular the improved efficiency of industrial boilers and furnaces.

The effectiveness and efficiency of the management processes should be reviewed regularly (including streamlining and simplifying procedures) in order to identify what efficiency gains have been achieved and what further gains are possible through improved methods before additional resources are requested.

In the industrial sector, three Parties proposed projects aimed at identifying energy conservation measures and actions (energy efficiency gains).

(b) A definition of procedures to identify efficiency or other gains, including but not limited to any potential savings that might be identified by Member States for transfer to the Development Account in the context of intergovernmental processes, as well as their practical measures of implementation

ICTs are having a deep and positive impact on tourism through global reach, improved information flow and efficiency gains from improved organization.

However, if the volume of established entitlements benefits remains at current levels, it is clear that growth will outweigh gains in efficiency.

Gains in the efficiency with which industry uses energy contribute to meeting several needs of UNIDO's Member States, which may be summarized as follows

These activities are in particular those that are capable of withstanding competitive pressures for efficiency gains and surviving the new industrial and trade realities.

This leads to a clear increase in efficiency and provides overall income gains. Even if losers were fully compensated, the sum of the gains shared by the firm, its mostly part time workers, and its customers would far outweigh the losses.

Affirms that budget submissions should, to the extent possible, reflect management improvements and efficiency gains to be achieved and to articulate future strategies in this regard

Priority is being given to seeking further efficiency gains, in particular through the restructuring of the secretariat, and an increased engagement of external partners and expertise.

The 2006 2007 budget proposes three solutions efficiency gains, including through restructuring innovative ways to mobilize external engagement or reduction or suspension of some work programme activities.

UNICEF agrees to jointly purchase items of common interest with UNHCR whenever it would result in cost or efficiency gains for the United Nations as a whole.

This kind of common service is of great interest to UNICEF for the efficiency gains in reaching more remote areas, and in supporting suboffices and out posted staff.

Requests the Unit to include in future annual reports more information on the impact of full implementation of recommendations, including any cost savings, productivity and efficiency gains achieved

The report recommended the creation of a working group to explore the potential cost efficiency that might accrue from common procurement arrangements.

Similarly, OFDI has increased the strategic assets and revenues and strengthened the market position of Russian enterprises, including efficiency gains from control of supply chains and access to natural resources.

The potential medium term revenue gains from trade and transport facilitation are estimated to be 2 to 3 per cent of the total value of traded goods.

The Committee reiterates that raw statistics on the utilization of conference resources are potentially misleading and could obscure the understanding of actual efficiency gains in the utilization of allocated conference resources.

In view of the considerable expenditure that has been incurred on IT systems, the Committee expects to continue to see efficiency gains and savings related to both post and non post resources.

Many of the efficiency gains related to the adoption of ICT result from changes in business processes, such as logistics and inventory control, order fulfilment and tracking, and customer acquisition and retention.

The meeting had identified ways in which ICT could boost economic growth in developing countries through improvements in innovation and product development processes, efficiency and productivity gains in enterprises, and expanded market reach.

Alan Winters et al., Negotiating the Liberalization of the Temporary Movement of Natural Persons, Commonwealth Secretariat, March 2002. See also, UNU WIDER, Efficiency Gains from the Elimination of Global Restrictions on Labour Mobility, 2003.

In many places, however, the gains made by tighter regulations and improved energy efficiency and pollution control technologies have been offset by the increase in traffic (vehicle miles travelled) and the demand for energy.

9. Appreciates the efficiency gains achieved by the University in order to make optimal use of modest and limited resources, and emphasizes the continuing need for cost effectiveness in conducting the activities of the University

All requests for new resources should be justified in relation to the volume of work and the outcomes expected the aim being to achieve efficiency and productivity gains by rationalizing the use of existing resources.

Such efficiency gains from increasing the extent of the market and promoting specialization should have produced rapid growth in Mexican productivity. Likewise, greater efficiency should have been reinforced by a boom in capital formation, which should have accompanied the guarantee that no future wave of protectionism in the US would shut factories in Mexico.

1.115 To improve access of refugee population to essential hospital services by implementing affordable and equitable hospitalization policies, adjusting the imbalance in financial allocations among fields and achieving cost efficiency gains by rationalization of referral practices.

110. Reiterates its request to the Secretary General to redeploy to the subregional development centres any savings realized during the biennium as a result of reform measures and efficiency gains from within the Economic Commission for Africa

It recognized that, despite the potential, there were still major challenges in improving e government services and efficiency and urged the secretariat to continue its efforts in such capacity building activities.

This has allowed advanced economies, in turn, to produce and export more capital intensive, higher value added products. Globalization of trade enabled countries to tap the efficiency gains that specialization in their sectors of comparative advantage has brought about.

In May 2004, INSTRAW undertook a review and reformulation of GAINS in order to optimize its usefulness and efficiency for members and for the Institute's implementation of its new priorities and programme of work (the 2004 2007 strategic framework).

Administrative expenses need to be allowed to adjust and expand, while ensuring all possible efficiency gains, to respond to the expansion of demand for development support so that the overall quality and quantity of programme activities does not suffer.

This approach can yield considerable efficiency gains, including savings in time and expense as a result of witnesses testifying only once, not appearing several times before the Tribunal to testify in separate trials, thus reducing travel and other costs.

On some counts it is about greater competition improving efficiency. On others it is more about the advantages of market size, whether through specialization gains from a more intricate division of labour, technological upgrading or a minimum scale of production.

The Government is concerned about the possible impact of opening up the distribution sector to foreign competition on domestic industries and on employment however, it is considered that overall benefits would outweigh costs, mainly through efficiency and overall welfare gains.

Upon completion of the pilot project, if warranted, a comprehensive proposal should be prepared clearly indicating all associated costs under both peacekeeping activities and the regular budget, including planned activities, the time frame for completion and the efficiency gains anticipated.

These steps can and should be supplemented by immediate action to support a series of quick wins relatively inexpensive, high impact initiatives with the potential to generate major short term gains and save millions of lives.

That allows us to have incredible efficiency and cost efficiency.

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