Levels of prices and mark ups,

External change in market price levels

(a) Energy prices shall be allowed to reach a reasonable level

The same indicators determine the price level of the services offered.

The overall rate of growth of prices of goods and services (in order to adjust the level of the minimum wage and prevent it decreasing in real value).

Instead, energy prices will be allowed to reach their reasonable market level.

Instead, energy prices shall be allowed to reach their reasonable market level.

Industrial energy was 71 per cent cheaper than the regional average, costing only 11 United States dollars per megawatt.

Cotton prices had been falling since August 1997, and in February 1998 stood some 8 per cent below mid 1997 levels.

The competent regulatory body may have to approve criteria and parameters to be followed for determining reasonable price levels that allow the project company to recover the investment and achieve a reasonable rate of return.

Furthermore, when corrected for price and exchange rate changes, the recent recovery of aid has barely brought assistance in relation to GNI back to the levels of 1990.

Two sellers of petrol simultaneously increased their prices to identical levels.

We de linked that, and once we did it, we began to budget at a price slightly lower than the oil price and save whatever was above that price.

With the exception of Myanmar, inflation tended to be lower in 2004 in all of these countries owing to greater exchange rate stability as well as to prudent monetary policies, although the rise in oil prices was beginning to affect the general price level.

But, though inflation is very low, and even negative in a few countries, something more must be going on, because commodity prices are falling relative to the overall price level. In other words, real commodity prices are falling.

Average ratio of border prices to world market prices,

Keeping prices of unleaded fuel low encourages lower consumption of leaded fuel.

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D1,000 GDB at market prices

The rapid increases in prices generally, made worse by increasing fuel prices in mid June 2001, not only made the poor even poorer but also lowered the real wages of those who remained employed.

The relatively low level of real house prices may also have had a curbing effect on consumption.

Six fuel distributors raised their prices by almost identical amounts within a period of 15 to 34 hours and maintained these higher levels for several months.

GDP growth at constant prices ( )

Experts noted that the world steel industry was currently enjoying a boom period, with very high prices for all steel products and hence in spite of high input prices record profits.

Likewise, gasoline spiked briefly to 10 per gallon, but has settled at 3.

Determination of the minimum wage is not connected to the value of the consumer's shopping basket, which, to our knowledge, is much higher than the minimum wage.

The export pricing also appeared to make the landed price of Zambian cement higher.

With prices of finite fossil fuels rising and cereal prices falling to record world market levels, it is becoming economically interesting to use cereals, in addition to straw, for energy production.

The measures initially adopted can be administrative fixing of prices and voluntary restriction of the minimum price level of exports or investigation of prices to subsequently arrive at one of the following adjustment mechanisms suspension of import licences, application of variable charges, antidumping measures or countervailing duties.

This reaching for yield has driven up the prices of all long term bonds to unsustainable levels, narrowed credit spreads on corporate bonds and emerging market debt, raised the relative prices of commercial real estate, and pushed up the stock market s price earnings ratio to more than 25 higher than its historic average.

Table 1 Real GDP and consumer prices

The lowest labour price is determined at Republika Srpska level, i.e., at the level of branches and activities, and is multiplied by a coefficient of complexity for the work for every payment group.

Thus, in spite of some recovery during the 1990s when the general commodity price levels recovered both in current and real terms (at annual rates of 4.2 per cent and 2.8 per cent, respectively, during 1991 1997), they still remained very depressed by past standards.

Prices remained at the same level as in the previous month in alcoholic beverages and tobacco housing, water, electricity, gas and other fuels communications and education.

The present report is being issued at the present time to best reflect data availability.

Most of the hotel rates are better than the normal published rates and are commissionable to travel agents at 10 per cent of the gross selling price and 14 per cent for CTO agents.

The decline in world cocoa prices, combined with increased prices for imports, had depressed incomes and living standards in the country, which also had a high per capita debt and a high rate of extreme poverty.

In the short run, excessively low prices could trigger political instability in some oil producing countries, driving up prices. Similarly, delays in upstream investment, especially megaprojects, could push prices above the ideal level in the medium and long term.

The price boom also embraced crude oil by 1995 average prices in 1996 were 31 per cent higher than two years earlier.

Currently, information and communication technology indicators for the region as a whole are lower than world averages.

Lack of proper pricing also encourages profligate use and wastage.

In addition, the responsible ministry has made special arrangements, both with the agency and the postal services to keep prices affordable.

It was noted that a steady increase in demand for fish from aquaculture was expected at least until 2020, with an increase in price of about 1.5 per cent a year.

24. The dollar prices of crude oil have also been steadily declining since November 1997, and can be expected to remain subdued in the near future.