This is also an area where efficiency gains could bring considerable cost advantages and savings.

She took full advantage of her stay in London to improve her English.

Bolivia apos s key geographical position may become one of its major comparative advantages and an essential element in enhancing the country apos s international stature.

Its objective is to explore new kinds of relationships with NGOs that will leverage mutual strengths and complementarities to increase impact and sustainability.

Another source of competitive advantages relates to better managerial and marketing expertise.

Such new members would have brought new essence, added optimality, and added acceptance to decisions and thereby minimized the use of force.

OFDI also leads to better product service quality and greater technological edge.

MS It would be an unfair advantage if he gets to ride in a golf cart.

3. High transit transport costs remain the major barrier and they erode the competitive edge of land locked developing countries in world trade.

One such list of advantages accruing to UNCTAD with its universal membership, could include

This integration, coupled with the advantages of strategic technology, will result in increased efficiency and the elimination of duplication.

Improving safety on our roads became a top priority for the Government of Oman.

In order to continue doing so, they need to be competitive in terms of production costs, and the trading environment has to allow competitive advantages to be decisive.

For example, the contribution of supplier industries could take the form of the provision of efficient, rapid, low cost and sometimes preferential access to inputs.

It should build on the strengths of the Commission on Human Rights and its members must undertake to abide by the highest human rights standards.

Developing country processors have advantages over those in developed countries such as low labour costs, high quality and lower prices of raw materials.

Wang Yang pointed out that the South to North Water Diversion Project had made great achievement since its establishment and operation, which once again validated China s political advantages and institutional superiorities.

Rising incomes require rising productivity. That means increasing capital and human capital intensity across both the tradable and non tradable sectors of the economy.

Many state owned enterprises proved to be high cost and low productivity operations and a drain on the public purse, often acting as a conduit for siphoning away rents to politically favoured groups and individuals.

The purpose of the film series is to raise awareness using the advantage of communicative language of animation.

(b) Cost effective delivery of services

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C. Savings resulting from improved overall cost

Although the government s stimulus policies have increased the national debt, the debt GDP ratio remains relatively low, at roughly 37 . Public debt in Japan, by contrast, exceeds 220 of GDP.

Human resource development and capacity building must therefore be critical priorities of United Nations operational assistance.

The comparative advantage of developing countries has traditionally been considered to lie in natural resource endowments and low cost labour.

His Government had submitted proposals on GATT Articles VIII and X emphasizing the merits of trade facilitation.

1.9 The Relief and Social Services Programme (RSSP) will place a high priority on providing assistance to meet minimum needs of the most vulnerable refugees.

Firstly, through internal economies of scale, Such economies occur when production costs per unit of output depend inversely on the size of the firm, and not on that of the industry or sector as a whole.

It was suggested that such opportunities may be found in the sectors where developing countries have (i) natural and geographical advantages (ii) an education and training basis to provide skilled workers (iii)the competitive advantage provided by lower wages and(iv) the possibility to cut the cost of services further, utilizing the communication and transport technology.

This trend is supported by the declining cost and increasing capacity of the required hardware and software as well as by the declining cost of communications.

Many statements also referred to the achievements of the Commission, as well as the need to preserve or improve upon its positive features and elements.

(d) Joint implementation projects must be compatible with, and supportive of, national environment and development priorities and strategies, and must contribute to cost effectiveness in achieving global benefits

These effects included quality improvements, cost reductions and product development, and have contributed to making the comparative advantage of labour cost a relatively less important determinant of competitiveness.

Awareness and priority setting, however, are not enough to turn strategies into development opportunities.

The project aimed at developing a significant, competent and globally competitive African capacity in communications technology, with a genuine scientific and technological cutting edge capability by the provision of products.

That observation should not, however, overshadow fundamental economic insights specifically, that trade and the location of production are determined by comparative, not absolute, advantage. A country will always have a comparative advantage in something but that something changes.

The triennial review will need to take fully into account the momentum generated by the reform process, which constitutes a solid platform for achieving greater efficiency, coherence and effectiveness.

As a result, German banks have a lower cost of funding and all else being equal 160 higher profitability. To the extent that some of the lower cost is rebated to their clients, even industrial firms in Germany enjoy a lower cost of capital, giving them an unfair advantage vis à vis their European competitors.

As a result, German banks have a lower cost of funding and all else being equal higher profitability. To the extent that some of the lower cost is rebated to their clients, even industrial firms in Germany enjoy a lower cost of capital, giving them an unfair advantage vis à vis their European competitors.

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In these latter respects, exporting manufactures brings dynamic advantages.

It highlighted strengths and weaknesses that, in general terms, can still be observed in 2004.

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

Cost increases were limited by technological advances leading to productivity gains.