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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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).

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

In practice, they are more likely to increase retail markups and lower cost pass through. The estimated price pass through for imported manufactured goods, which would better represent what enters the consumption bundle, is even lower than that for all non fuel imports.

External change in market price levels

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.

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

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

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

The price of gas in the US and Canada is only about half the current price in Mexico (and less than half the price in Europe and Asia). Mexican access to cheaper gas will boost Mexican petrochemical industries and lower energy costs for manufacturing.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

Devaluation leads to a change in the relative prices of imports, which become dearer in the national currency, and exports, which become cheaper in foreign currencies.

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.

On the other hand, Jewish settlers benefited from more favourable treatment and lower prices.

3320 Variable components

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.

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

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.

In addition to this increase in the real cost of debt service, deflation would mean higher loan to value ratios for homeowners, leading to increased mortgage defaults, especially in the US. A lower price level would also increase the real value of business debt, weakening balance sheets and thus making it harder for companies to get additional credit.

Just when real estate agents were looking forward to selling more real estate during the holiday season, growth rate of residential property prices was the lowest since 2013.

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.

In the United States, the shale gas revolution, facilitated by the development of hydraulic fracturing ( fracking ), has brought prices to their lowest levels since natural gas gained prominence after the oil crises of the 1970s. With many more countries set to tap shale gas reserves over the next decade, this downward trend will most likely continue, helping to lower the price of electricity generation further.

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.

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.

Despite the agreed levels, the international financial organizations have a limiting influence on collective bargaining, and thereby the lowest labour price is the basis for salary calculations.

Supporters of the traditional view were somewhat more prevalent among women with lower level of education.

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

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

Growing use by retailers of own brands and discount retailing have also been driving prices down significantly.

This, combined with the effects of taxes, has brought them to the same level as in some OECD countries or even higher.

Low prices resulted from the classification of the settlements as development area A which reduced by 50 per cent the price of land.

Standard of living is lower.