Reduction of the maternal mortality rate has been slow in improving.

The company's rate reduction follows a 10 percent decrease for onshore contractors in 2014.

The Commission is encouraged by the reduction of the unemployment rate.

The average MB reduction rate was 33 per year for countries that achieved reductions (in 1998 to 2001 2).

The average MB reduction rate was 33 per year for countries that achieved reductions (in 1998 to 2001 2).

Steps taken to provide for the reduction of the still birth rate and infant mortality

Ad hoc provisional rate effective 15 May 1998, not subject to reduction after 30 days.

Australia's current goal is a 40 per cent reduction in the per capita fatality rate over the decade to 2010.

(b) Reduction of the drop out rate from 7 to 5 per cent in 1996 and to 3 per cent in 2000

However, the dynamics of trafficking are such that such a high seizure rate does not cause a proportional reduction in consumption.

There has been a slight reduction in the rate of female illiteracy from 9 per cent in 1990 to 8.4 per cent in 1993.

(c) Reduction of the school failure rate from 21 to 8 per cent in 1996 and to 5 per cent in 2000 etc.

Indonesia's success in family planning program is well recognized internationally. This program has contributed significantly to the reduction of its population growth, due to the reduction of its Total Fertility Rate (TFR).

Improvement in the rate of implementation of programmes for 2004 was acknowledged and further reduction of the surplus fund balance was encouraged.

The future reduction in China s saving will therefore mean a reduction in China s current account surplus and thus in its ability to lend to the US and other countries. If the new emphasis on increased consumption shrank China s saving rate by 5 of its GDP, it would still have the world s highest saving rate.

Under the proposal, that reduction alone was greater than the rate of assessment of all but five contributors.

Many States currently paid a floor rate in excess of their capacity to pay. Any further reduction in the ceiling would render that principle meaningless.

This rate decreased to approximately 3.4 tonnes per hectare during 1990 to 1991, a reduction in yield of approximately 2.1 tonnes per hectare.

The infant mortality rate had been reduced by 15 per cent relative to 1994, and the reduction in life expectancy had been halted.

Wage guarantees where a pregnant woman worker apos s transfer to other work results in a reduction in her rate of remuneration, she is entitled to a compensatory allowance at the rate of 100 per cent of remuneration

6. Requests the Board, should there be a positive trend towards actuarial surpluses in future valuations, to consider favourably a reduction in the present contribution rate

Moreover, any reduction in the maximum rate of apportionment that would entail additional costs for heavily indebted developing countries would also cause severe problems.

Empirical evidence shows that there is no invariant relationship between the rate of growth and the rate of poverty reduction, and that even in a context of faster growth, complementary policies specifically targeting poverty are required.

4), a reduction of 33,860,400 resulting from revised exchange rate assumptions, additional requirements of 24,074,600 related to revised inflation assumptions and a reduction of 43,011,800 due to adjustment of staff assessment ( 43,011,800).

But he is also proposing a significant cut in the corporate tax rate. To many, this approach seems inconsistent Shouldn t the corporate tax rate be raised, not lowered, so that corporations contribute their fair share to deficit reduction?

The reduction in the mission subsistence allowance rate applicable to Baghdad, from 125 to 100 effective 15 October 1996, also contributed to the lower expenditures recorded.

Consequently, and in the light of this requirement, I strongly believe that, despite the well known situation of the current staff reduction exercise, the General Assembly Affairs Division should be substantially strengthened and, at any rate, should not suffer any reduction in staff.

For the International Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, the total reduction of 15.7 million reflects a reduction of 10.7 million due to revised exchange rate assumptions, 1.4 million for recosted inflation and 2.4 million in adjustment of staff assessment.

63. The liberal economic policies pursued since 1977 contributed largely to the reduction of the unemployment rate from 24 per cent in 1973 to 11.8 per cent in 1982.

Meanwhile, with the reduction of general tariff level, especially the import tariff reduction of medicine and consumer goods, the taxable items and tax rate for import tax on imported goods would be reduced accordingly.

However, other data from the IDS97 suggest that the rate of current fertility has practically remained unchanged or it has seen a rapid reduction in relation to 1980.

470. In the early 1990s, the total fertility rate nationwide was 3.5 children per woman, a reduction of 34 per cent compared with 1977, when it was 5.3.

38. The repeated appeals of the Security Council for a reduction in defence spending and a reduction in the number of foreign military troops have not been heeded by either side. The military forces and armaments in Cyprus continued to be expanded, upgraded and modernized at an increasing rate.

They include (a) The provision for the reduction of the stillbirth rate and of infant mortality and for the healthy development of the child

The third arrow is not a traditional industrial policy based approach. On the contrary, it emphasizes reform of the labor market, deregulation, and a reduction in the corporate tax rate.

Indeed, cutting these items to pay for a reduction in the corporate tax rate could end up increasing the tax on corporate economic activity in the US. Eliminating accelerated depreciation for equipment would raise the effective tax rate on new investments repealing the domestic production deduction would increase the effective tax rate on US manufacturing and rescinding the R D tax credit would reduce investment in innovation.

Recent research also indicates that increases in demand that would cause a further reduction in the current unemployment rate would boost the inflation rate. An important study co authored by Alan Krueger of Princeton University, who served as Chairman of President Obama s Council of Economic Advisers until last year, showed that the inflation rate reflects the level of short term unemployment (lasting less than six months), rather than the overall unemployment rate.

Similarly, a modest carbon tax or value added tax, with credits or subsidies to offset the regressive effects on low income households, could generate enough revenue both to pay for a significant reduction in the corporate tax rate and to make a meaningful contribution to deficit reduction.

399. In the early 1990s, the total fertility rate nationwide was 3.5 children per woman, a reduction of 34 per cent compared with 1977, when it was 5.3 children per woman.

In 44 of the cases, the Department granted permits for dismissal while 56 of the requests were either refused or the cases were closed, a significant reduction to the 54 approval rate in 2000.

There is no inconsistency between a progressive, balanced deficit reduction plan and lowering the corporate tax rate. Of all taxes, corporate taxes are the most harmful to economic growth without which meaningful deficit reduction is far more difficult to achieve.

Concerned by the continued loss of biological diversity, and acknowledging that an unprecedented effort would be needed to achieve by 2010 a significant reduction in the rate of loss of biological diversity,

Concerned by the continued loss of biological diversity, and acknowledging that an unprecedented effort would be needed to achieve by 2010 a significant reduction in the rate of loss of biological diversity,

Concerned by the continued loss of biological diversity, and acknowledging that an unprecedented effort would be needed to achieve by 2010 a significant reduction in the rate of loss of biological diversity,

China has elevated the reduction of external imbalances to a major national objective in 2007. It intends to boost domestic demand and is committed to moving gradually toward greater exchange rate flexibility.