Demand creation and long term financing would give manufacturers incentive to produce new vaccines and reduce costs.

We manufacture them in house, ourselves. That keeps the costs down.

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

The distribution chain has become shorter, and a direct relationship between producers and retailers has emerged, driven by enabling technologies and the desire to lower transaction costs.

Defence industries say the fewer markings there are, the cheaper production gets.

But it tells us that we know how to create it, we know how to create it cost effectively, we know how to handle it safely.

When an increasing number of firms are able to transform physical inputs into high quality outputs at very low cost, and there is consequent pressure among firms to produce at lower and lower prices, this leads to a reduction in terms of trade of exports of developing country producers (Kaplinsky 2000).

Subsidies by rich nations foster over production and thus lead to dumping food on local markets at prices below production.

As seen from table 7, the lower labour costs in developing countries and countries in transition more than offset lower labour productivity, resulting in production costs that are significantly lower in these countries than in developed countries.

GM crops also have significant economic benefits. Higher yields and lower production costs have reduced global commodity prices (corn, soybeans, and derivatives), resulting in higher farm income, enhanced supplies of food and feed products, and more readily available high quality calories.

And instead of installing the large scale machines used by western producers, they used low cost CAD CAM prototyping technology.

It was also observed that the higher ranking suppliers, whose products might be produced on a higher cost basis than those of lower ranking suppliers, might submit unrealistically low prices during the auction itself, and therefore a performance risk might arise.

The diffusion of ICTs enables tourism businesses to make tourism products and services directly available to a large number of consumers at a relatively low cost, and to interact with them, as well as with other tourism producers and distributors.

If the joint venture imports completely knocked down (CKD) furniture kits, it would out compete other manufacturers as it would produce more furniture at less cost than the other manufacturers.

Pressure on prices could be such that even efficient producers could be threatened by their inability to recover fixed costs as a result of being forced to price at short term marginal cost.

The diffusion of ICTs enables tourism businesses themselves to make tourism products and services directly available to a large number of consumers at relatively low cost, and to interact with them as well as with other tourism producers and distributors.

(d) Will result in an intergovernmentally agreed outcome

The discussions successfully ended in an agreed text, which the Court hopes will be signed soon.

It influences competitive strategies of operators in the tourism sector and enables the product supplier to link more directly with customer sources, therefore reducing market transaction costs.

This low cost communication capability has proven, even in the relatively short time of its commercial availability, to offer dramatic results in relief efforts that have not been possible before.

For producers, there are increased costs due to multiple certifications, more paperwork, loss of production or increased costs due to the use of inappropriate standards, delays in marketing, and dependency on importers.

Firms from industrialized countries are interested in entering into such alliances in order to gain access to markets, low cost production sites and low cost technology development sites in the developing world, as well as to spread the costs and risks of innovation.

The historical learning curves for many renewable technologies teach us that costs per unit power fall approximately 20 per cent every time that accumulated production doubles.

Even in a situation with relatively slow demand growth and weak prices, new capacity may still be added successfully if production costs are low enough.

Producers of primary commodities often suffer from the low prices paid to them.

The competitive pressure to lower production costs has also influenced the geographical destinations of these SMEs from Singapore.

New capacity is mainly planned in developing countries and countries in transition with relatively low production costs and rapidly growing domestic demand.

Low cost providers around the world can do it cheaper.

Of key importance are the conditions under which enterprises can allocate resources in ways that generate higher quality and lower cost products, which in turn can enhance economic growth.32 The organization of production within companies can stimulate learning and the adoption of new techniques that improve cost efficiency, productivity and quality.

Applications of industrial and environmental biotechnology promise to cut the cost of production, the number of processing steps and energy consumption.

Even large producers may be deterred from making product and process investments if the prices they can get from large retailing conglomerates prevent them from securing an adequate return to cover their costs.

From an analytical point of view, electronic commerce has the following three characteristics (i) it is an information intensive (and hence technology intensive) way of conducting trade (ii) it entails minimal (sometimes nil) transaction costs and (iii) it provides greatly increased mobility of some production factors.

In the case of low price or low quality commodities which are often traded in bulk, the commodity chain is typically dominated by large international buyers, with the result that producers play an essentially reactive role, especially if the production process can easily be moved to another area, as has been observed for many mass produced, low end products, including the low price segment of garments and footwear.

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The commercialization of both product and process innovations could make a major breakthrough.

This often results in inequitable access to or provision of basic services, and general inefficiencies and lack of productivity.

We started asking manufacturers what were in their materials.

They range from low cost financing, tax incentives, business development, marketing, design, technology adoption, standards upgrading, productivity improvement and computerization to expanding operations abroad.

Government and other non market producers cost of capital of own assets

Japan was affected by a strong earthquake this week, which resulted in a shortage of automobile parts and components. Honda, Nissan and other auto manufacturers said today that their will cut production, and even suspend local auto production.

In Asia, the origin processors tend to be more independent and supply manufacturers within the region.

If Cuba had access to the United States market, the advanced technology, high quality raw materials and much lower freight costs that this implies would enable it to reduce production costs by 50 per cent, i.e. to around 0.45 per unit.

Reduction in production and transaction costs, as well as considerations of market penetration and market power, are thus key elements in the firm s decisional matrix.