(c) In Europe, the management systems for reducing production costs

Poor hygiene, sanitation and water exacerbate poverty by reducing productivity and elevating health care costs.

Electronic technologies have facilitated the use of reverse auctions by greatly reducing the transaction costs.

Secondly, they can enhance the efficient allocation of resources (reducing the time required to conduct a procurement, and reducing the administrative costs of the traditional open tendering procedure).

Reducing sea turtle mortality through reductions in longline bycatch would save money by reducing the need for costly, emergency sea turtle conservation efforts that are not calculated in the true costs of industrial fishing.

Thematic funds have fewer restrictions than most other resources, allowing for longer term planning while reducing transaction costs and recovery rates.

(c) Ensuring that all these processes complement each other, with the aim of reducing transaction costs, most importantly for the partner countries

Developing countries must be proactive in designing and implementing trade facilitation measures for enhancing efficiency, reducing transaction costs and maintaining supply capacities.

It would also be grateful if the Secretariat could explore ways to streamline the organizational structure with a view to reducing personnel costs.

We first of all tackled the fiscal deficit issue by reducing our expenditures, which were mainly on the establishment we reduced establishment costs.

On the other hand, they also receive a number of invitations where the costs are covered by the host institution such travel will, at times, be combined with UNIDIR's missions, thereby reducing costs to the Institute.

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

The Committee believes that there is a need to examine translation requirements and methods with a view to reducing costs while ensuring optimal quality.

Realigning China s infrastructure means emphasizing quality over quantity, and reducing state ownership and controlled prices in favor of market forces. State orchestration should instead be focused on fighting corruption, reducing transaction costs, promoting competition, lowering entry barriers, and removing excess capacity.

Within this increasingly complex environment, UNICEF will pursue funding strategies that support common approaches to reducing transaction costs, streamlining operational processes and producing measurable results.

Understanding and reducing these health inequalities remains a major public policy challenge worldwide. It is not only a moral issue health inequalities carry significant economic costs.

Such mechanisms can increase SME confidence in e business processes and tools and encourage their adoption, potentially reducing their costs and expanding their supply and sales channels.

59. Emphasizes that the simplification and harmonization of rules and procedures should aim at reducing, where appropriate, the complexities and diversity of requirements, which still place an enormous burden on the recipient countries through high transaction costs, and that innovations in this area should achieve, in their implementation, the objective of reducing the administrative and financial costs to the recipient country as well as to the United Nations system

Combining the fuel type with other parameters enabled fire suppression authorities to combat forest fires more effectively, thereby dramatically reducing annual losses and achieving significant savings in fire suppression costs.

Reducing school costs. The government's strategy with the EFA programme is to eliminate all school fees and to provide free textbooks and school supplies, as well as certain essential medications.

Appropriately reducing the import tariffs of some domestically industrial products with urgent needs can attract more foreign capital, help increase domestic effective supply, assist industrial upgrading, and contribute to enterprises allocate resources on a global scale, reduce production costs, and also benefit for reducing the pressure on the domestic environment.

(i) To undertake indoor and outdoor air pollution abatement, including setting and enforcing national and regional air quality standards, as such investments most often outweigh the costs of damage caused by the pollution and offer multiple benefits such as reducing health risks and damage to ecosystems, while reducing greenhouse gas emissions

The TCPR identified changes needed to increase efficiency by reducing transaction costs, and increase coherence, effectiveness and relevance through the programme process, the resident coordinator system, evaluation and attention to gender issues.

The representative of the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA) outlined its primary activities, which included the provision of guarantees (risk mitigation products) and reducing transaction costs associated with FDI site selection decisions.

As to the issue of data compilation, the experts emphasized the need to maximize the use of information existing in administrative data sources with the aim of reducing costs and the respondents' burden.

Member States should make every effort to pay their assessed contributions on time, as savings made to cover budget shortfalls, particularly those achieved by reducing staff costs, might prove detrimental to technical cooperation delivery.

It is important to note, however, that these costs pale in comparison with the far greater costs of reducing CO2 emissions without CCS. According to the International Energy Agency, for example, a ten year delay in deploying CCS would increase the cost of decarburizing the power sector by 750 billion ( 880 billion).

While these two fundamental changes are here to stay, Brazil s government has gone even further. We have pressed ahead on reducing the tax burden by decreasing various rates, particularly on payroll taxes, thereby reducing hiring costs without harming workers purchasing power one reason why Brazil is now one of the world s few major economies with low unemployment.

Sadly, the financial revolution has been mostly rent seeking rather than welfare enhancing in character. It has been based on eliminating, or at least reducing, two key elements of banking costs closely associated with prudential arrangements.

Forced subsidiarization causes capital and liquidity to be trapped in local legal entities, reducing the effectiveness with which that capital is used. At a time when bank capital is scarce, that impediment carries significant economic costs.

Reaffirms the importance of reducing the transfer costs of migrant remittances, facilitating their flow and, as appropriate, encouraging opportunities for development oriented investment in recipient countries by beneficiaries that are willing and able to do so

These achievements would contribute to enhancing economic growth and reducing poverty, reducing child mortality and improving maternal health, and reducing the spread of HIV.

1. Reaffirms the importance of reducing the transfer costs of migrant remittances, facilitating their flow and, as appropriate, encouraging opportunities for development oriented investment in recipient countries by beneficiaries that are willing and able to do so

Reducing nuclear danger

Two general principles emerging from numerous countries are (a) diversion of as many cases away from the court system as is safe and appropriate and (b) reduction of criminal process costs by routing cases, where applicable, outside the formal system, which may also contribute to reducing case costs by preventing the progression of offenders further down the criminal process.

The European Union s Maastricht criteria, which cap deficits at 3 of GDP, belong in the same category a measure that could be relaxed as the political pressure changed, but which did help initially in reducing deficits and borrowing costs.

The three central objectives of streamlining the complex rules and procedures with a view to reducing transaction costs, improving financial and programme results, and increasing the impact and the sustainability of development activities should be pursued with greater vigour.

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.

(o) Reducing nuclear danger

Reducing mortality in childhood

Reducing the ERW problem

(o) Reducing nuclear danger

(o) Reducing nuclear danger

Chinese officials presumably believe that this situation will change over time. Once banks offer new assets denominated in renminbi, more customers will be drawn into the market, thereby adding liquidity and reducing transaction costs for purchases of renminbi in European currencies.

The requirements of 64,400 under consultants relate to the completion of the SWIFT cash management system, which will permit automated matching of cash and investment transactions and consolidation of bank accounts, thus simplifying account management and reducing overall costs for banking.