Current year obligations have been revalued at the year end United Nations operational rate of exchange.

The Fund apos s real estate investments outperformed both bonds and cash during the biennium, with a total return of 8.6 per cent for the year ending 31 March 1997 and 18.9 per cent for the year ended 31 March 1998.

Consistently higher than standard vacancy rates have been experienced by the Office of the Prosecutor during the biennium 2004 2005.

67. The unemployment rate for females has been higher than that for males over the years and continues so.

The total investment returns for the year ended 31 March 1997 and 31 March 1998 were 8.9 per cent and 20.4 per cent, respectively.

Why has poverty remained stuck at 12 percent of the U.S. population for 40 years?

The number of abortions among teenagers represented 12.81 per cent and 13.79 per cent of total intentional terminations in 1991 and 1994 respectively.

Reimbursement of troop costs in accordance with the standard rates of reimbursement has been made for the period ending 31 May 1997.

The lifetime prevalence of volatile substance abuse among adolescents globally has been estimated at 4 to 24 per cent.

Higher bit rates would be accommodated by professional terminals.

(i) The quot gross quot real rate would be the yield to maturity on 30 year United States inflation indexed Government Bonds, as published in the first issue of the Wall Street Journal following the termination date, rounded to two decimal places (the current rate is approximately 3.6 per cent per annum)

Full reimbursement of troop costs in accordance with the standard rates of reimbursement has been made for the period ending 31 May 1997.

Resolution 20 18 Decentralization and strengthening of local authorities

The unemployment rates for women are always higher than for men, but there was an upward trend in both groups between 1991 and 1995 (table 11.3).

The Fund apos s exposure to United States equities contributed more to the total return than did any other asset class held by the Fund, having provided total returns of 18.9 per cent and 45.5 per cent, respectively, for the years ending 31 March 1997 and 31 March 1998.

14. Full reimbursement of troop costs in accordance with the standard rates of reimbursement has been made for the period ending 31 May 1997.

For the period 1995 2002, service imports in developing countries remained mostly flat, with 3 per cent annual growth, followed by 8 per cent growth from 2002 to 2003.

Maternal mortality and morbidity rates remain high in countries where this phenomenon is particularly common.

34. Annex IV to the present report gives the vacancy rates for civilian personnel during the period ending 30 June 1997 by mission as compared with rates forecast in the initial budget.

15. Currency exchange adjustments include losses and gains on transactions and translation losses and gains from revaluation of year end asset and liability balances, based on the United Nations operational rate of exchange.

It will be recalled that, in its report for the biennium ending 31 December 1995, the Board of Auditors had recommended that budgetary assumptions relating to operational exchange rates be based on an averaging method instead of the latest available exchange rates.

(d) Improving end use efficiency in all sectors

Rate of penetration and absolute levels of use of new end use technologies

After adjustment by the United States consumer price index, the real rates of return for the years ended 31 March 1997 and 31 March 1998 were 5.9 per cent and 18.9 per cent, respectively.

(xi) During the biennium 1996 1997, the distribution of interest income was calculated using the percentage participation of each fund at the end of the year for 1996 and on the quarterly fund balances for 1997.

Continued application of strict financial controls and exchange rate gains contributed to the end of year excess of income over expenditure of 9.7 million.

As a whole there is an increase in the frequency of diseases leading to permanent invalidity in 1993 it was 6.33 per 1,000 persons with medical insurance.

The higher allocation to equities has been beneficial to the Fund as the equity portfolio had total returns of 11.6 per cent and 27.3 per cent, respectively, for the years ending 31 March 1997 and 31 March 1998 and contributed the most to the Fund apos s positive return during the two year period under review.

(f) The benefit shall be payable at periodic intervals for life, provided that a benefit payable at an annual rate of less than 200 dollars may be commuted by the widow into a lump sum which is the actuarial equivalent of the benefit at the standard annual rate under (c) above, or the annual rate under (e) above, as the case may be.

The annual birth rate is 24.46 births per 1,000 population and the annual death rate is 3.39 deaths per 1,000 population.

The interest is calculated starting with the twelfth month after the completion of studies or with the third month after the studies have been terminated, applying an annual 5 interest rate.

End of year estimate

2. Notes the increase in the market value of the assets of the Fund and the positive returns achieved during the biennium and, in particular, the 4.3 per cent annualized real rate of return over the 46 year period ending on 31 March 2006

However, it has since strengthened its procedures, and the response rate for the period ending December 2004 showed significant improvement.

Full reimbursement in accordance with the standard rates established by the General Assembly for troop costs has been made for the period ending 30 June 1996.

17. As indicated in paragraphs 5 and 7 above, the performance report for the period ending 30 June 1997 shows several efficiency and other management measures that should affect the level of resources required for corresponding items, both in the financial period ending 30 June 1998 and the period ending 30 June 1999.

Efficiency and effectiveness of measures in reaching the end users of natural resources

Developments in the areas of VSAT and mobile communication technologies had provided the means for efficient end to end services.

The benefit shall be payable at periodic intervals for life or until remarriage, provided that a benefit payable at an annual rate of less than 200 dollars may be commuted by the widow into a lump sum which is the actuarial equivalent of the benefit at the standard annual rate under (c) above, or the annual rate under (e) above, as the case may be.

The benefit shall be payable at periodic intervals for life or until remarriage , provided that a benefit payable at an annual rate of less than 200 dollars may be commuted by the widow into a lump sum which is the actuarial equivalent of the benefit at the standard annual rate under (c) above, or the annual rate under (e) above, as the case may be.

Annual rate Jobs lost

The State Incentives Programme

TDRS 1 was in position at longitude 85 degrees E. over the Indian Ocean by February 7, 1994, and NASA declared GRTS to be operational on April 1, 1994, with a proficiency of over 97 percent.

(a) Determination of the quot net quot interest (discount) rate for calculating the pensioners liability as of the date of termination

for the year ended 31 December 2004