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At your service. For a price.

Although Mexico s traditional debt indicators appeared sustainable, with moderate ratios of debt service, debt stock to exports and interest payments to exports (a ratio similar to the debt service ratio), the ratio of short term debt to reserves amounted to 131 per cent in 1997 (the ratio was much higher in 1996).

Finally, as Gyourko, Mayer, and Sinai themselves note, even these small long term differences in home price across cities have tended to be offset by lower rent price ratios in the superstar cities. For an investor, the rate of return is the sum of the rate of appreciation and the rent price ratio, so the low rent price ratio reduces the advantage of faster appreciation.

36. Africa s external debt burden is the highest among developing countries in terms of the ratio of external debt to GDP and its debt service ratio.

Therefore, a ratio of four General Service staff members for each Professional staff member could constitute a best practice standard in centralized procurement services at Headquarters since the ratio would likely tilt significantly towards more General Service staff in field locations.

The ratio of a median free market price of a dwelling unit and the median annual household income is now 2.73.

Since they have to pay for it, they may consider going where the quality price ratio is more favourable than at home.

Long distance telephone service sold on price, price, price fast food restaurants with all their value pricing and even the Internet is commoditizing not just goods, but services as well.

The ratio of debt service to exports for these countries has declined to an average of 10 per cent.

As regards medium to long term issues, the General Service to Professional ratio continues to be subject to review.

The Advisory Committee sought clarification as to the high ratio of General Service to Professional posts (76 General Service and 80 Professional posts are proposed for 2006 2007).

1 It is generally recognized that a ratio of debt to exports exceeding 200 per cent and a ratio of debt service to exports exceeding 20 per cent would signal serious debt problems.

The Expert Group agreed that such a coverage ratio would not be sufficient to collect sufficient data for use in the calculation of price indexes.

Slovenia has experienced a gradual improvement in the affordability of housing but the ratio of house price to household income is high at 7 1.

There is also the issue of the so called reserve price (the highest price a buyer is willing to pay for a good or service). The reserve price places a cap on how high commodity prices will go, as it is the price at which demand destruction occurs (consumers are no longer willing or able to purchase the good or service).

Furthermore, the Committee notes that the ratio of General Service posts to Professional posts would be reduced from 1.7 to 1.3.

Three factors had been taken into account debt service to export ratio (in the range of 20 25 per cent), the ratio of the current value of debt to export (200 250 per cent) and vulnerability.

That ratio in America would only cost a couple five years to earn, but in China it's 30 to 40 years with the skyrocketing real estate price.

That ratio in America would only cost a couple five years to earn, but in China it's 30 to 40 years with the skyrocketing real estate price.

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The debt indicators show what would be expected to be a sustainable debt position.1 The debt service ratio measured 13 per cent, the debt stock to exports ratio 114 per cent, the debt stock to GNP ratio 31 per cent, and short term debt to foreign exchange reserves ratio 53 per cent as noted, however, those figures obscure diverse trends at the country level.

Representatives of two major fixed line telephone service providers met and agreed to limit price competition between them.

The General Assembly's intention had been to address what was seen as a high ratio of General Service to Professional staff and to prompt the Secretariat to rethink the use of General Service staff.

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The total number of professional posts would increase from 246 to 251, while general service posts would decrease from 173 to 166, reflecting the call to reduce the ratio of general service to professional posts.

The increase in exports of goods and services and the decline in debt service for developing countries as a group resulted in a significant decline in the debt service to exports ratio, from 17.2 per cent in 2003 to 12.5 per cent in 2004, marking the largest decline in this ratio in the last 20 years.

The advantage of such bonds is that in the event of a decline in the world price of the underlying commodity, the debt to export ratio need not rise. The cost of debt service adjusts automatically, without the severe disruption that results from loss of confidence, crisis, debt restructuring, and so forth.