Levels of prices and mark ups,

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.

Average ratio of border prices to world market prices,

External change in market price levels

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

A comparison of mark up ratios for 36 manufacturing industries in 14 OECD countries found that the level of mark ups for 1970 1992 was substantially lower in unconcentrated industries than in concentrated industries.

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.

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

Note The average ratio is obtained by dividing index numbers for border prices by the index numbers for world market prices (multiplied by 100) for each year.

For example, the US consumes more than nine times as much oil as China on a per capita basis. As more of China s population converges to Western standards of consumption, demand for commodities and thus their prices will remain on an upward trajectory.

Per capital global food production was currently lower than in the 1980s, food aid had fallen to its lowest level since the 1970s, and prices on the international food markets had risen considerably.

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.

In the recent past, the prices of these products have increased faster than steel prices.

In terms of price performance, that's a 40 to 50 percent deflation rate.

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.

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.

For example, operational performance and survey capability of a new type of relatively inexpensive AUV has been demonstrated at a depth of 600 metres.

Actual income (in comparative prices

I concluded that there was a fair chance that oil prices were peaking and that before too long spot prices would reverse and start to decline. I thought it was probably the beginning of a move back down to 80 per barrel precisely where the price has landed at the end of 2014.

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

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You can calculate the price of that water.

Thus, a survey of 46 countries found a significantly negative relationship between the level of per capita income and the size of average mark up ratios in 1985. See J. Gali, Monopolistic competition, endogenous mark ups, and growth European Economic Review (1994), vol. 38, pp. 748 756.

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.

Iran estimates the alleged reduction in crop quality by comparing crop prices in the Southern Provinces in 1991 with national crop prices.

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.

The price of feedstock used in the production of biodiesel relative to petroleum prices is a key determinant in the feasibility of biodiesel.

The Committee is further concerned that women often have higher levels of education than men but are paid less than men for work of equal value.

Price comparison measures can provide direct measures of price impacts of NTBs.

The purchase price index of major raw materials was 59.8 , with an increase of 1.1 percentage from the previous month, and the ex factory price index was 54.3 , which was the same as last month, both were at high points during the year.

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.

But while the prices of the agricultural commodities appeared to have more or less stabilized, albeit at lower levels than those prevailing in mid 1997, most metal prices and that of petroleum continued to deteriorate up to February 1998 ( recent developments in major commodity markets, including those especially affected by the crisis, are examined below).

In my ongoing quest to become better at forecasting, I began, a few years ago, to pay attention to the five year forward oil price as it compares to the Brent crude oil spot price, the price of a barrel of oil today. I suspect that the five year forward price is much less influenced by speculation in the oil market than the spot price, and more representative of true commercial needs.

The individual prices and supporting comments will need to be compared across regions, which led the Global Office to request submission of individual prices for the ring collection.

This price is 40 per cent higher than the one that could have been obtained in the United States market.

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.