An 8.5 per cent discount rate was used.

Discount rate

Interest rate and public sector discount rate, where available

The liabilities were valued on the basis of a discount rate of 5.5 per cent.

On the second issue, OIOS believes that the Executive Committee should have the existing rate for single staff aligned with that prevailing for the same group of staff in the rest of the Secretariat.

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

Differences between rates should trigger the adjustment of MSA rates in the concerned missions.

(h) AH97 93 1 008 The Executive Committee of the Geneva plan should take appropriate action to align the existing subsidy rate of 57 per cent for single staff members with the rate (50 per cent) prevailing for the same group of staff in the rest of the Secretariat.

In recommendation 3, OIOS recommended that the Office of Human Resources Management should perform comparative analyses of mission subsistence and daily subsistence allowances on a monthly basis with a view to triggering the adjustment of mission subsistence allowance rates in the concerned missions.

Also decides that specific guidelines and criteria for the setting of miscellaneous or incidental costs as a component of the mission subsistence allowance should be developed, taking into account that mission subsistence allowance rates should not, as a general principle, exceed those of the daily subsistence allowance in the same locality

The increased requirement for Mission subsistence allowance derives from the lower average vacancy rate of 14.9 per cent compared to the 30 per cent vacancy factor applied to the calculation of Mission subsistence allowance costs.

(b) Differentials for single and dependency rates would be calculated by reference to flat amounts

(c) Differentials for single and dependency rates would be calculated by reference to flat amounts

The reduced requirements were due mainly to lower expenditures for mission subsistence allowance, which resulted from a lower average euro United States dollar exchange rate during the period than estimated for calculating costs and from a vacancy rate of 2.9 per cent whereas the cost estimates assumed no vacancies.

Although aware that MSA rates should be reviewed in cases where they are higher than the DSA rates, owing to a critical staffing situation, the Office of Human Resources Management had not performed the necessary cost of living surveys to determine the appropriateness of the MSA rates in these missions.

Subsidized electricity and fuel leads to wasteful overconsumption and contributes to the fiscal deficit. Though these subsidies are politically difficult to eliminate, they should be replaced by cash transfers, which can now be done efficiently in India, owing to a remarkable new system of fingerprint based cash transfers.

Daily allowance rate

The price for industrial users is higher and household are cross subsidised.

Secondly, contrary to general practice, single staff members under the plan received a higher subsidy rate, 57 per cent, than staff with dependents, for whom a 50 per cent rate was applied.

But frankly micro reactors which are just now coming on, might serve even better.

(b) Progressively reduce subsidies of fossil fuels and reduce remove such subsidies, tax schemes and regulations which counteract an efficient use of energy

The rates set by the Secretary General should reflect the subsistence costs (including food, lodgings and incidental items) based on the conditions that eligible peacekeeping staff actually incurred in each mission area.

From May to mid September, the spot rate of Hong Kong dollars was close to 7.85 with exchange of 1 most of the time.

In cases where imported goods, to which contractual tariff rate or preferential tariff rate is applicable are subject to temporary rate, the lower tariff rate shall apply.

(a) Progressively reduce subsidies of fossil fuels and reduce remove such subsidies, tax schemes and regulations which counteract an efficient use of energy and

Market exchange rates should be used, except when multiple exchange rates, high inflation rates or sharp market fluctuations prevailed.

(c) The current DSA durations (after 30 60 day rate) should be maintained

9. The principal factors in the methodology are the market value of the Fund apos s assets and the quot real quot interest rate (i.e., discount rate) used to calculate the capital value of the liability for all pensioners, with both factors measured as at the date of termination.

In Ghana, the most extensive use of high resolution satellite data to map current land use and cover for the country is currently taking place within the Remote Sensing Applications Unit of the Department of Geography, University of Ghana.

1. Mission subsistence allowance (daily rate)

Even more fundamental arithmetic lies at the core of the debt quandary. The tax rate required to fund social welfare benefits depends on three factors the dependency ratio (the ratio of recipients to taxpayers) the replacement rate (the ratio of benefits to average wages) and the economic growth rate (roughly, productivity plus population growth).

In cases where export goods, to which export tariff rates are applicable are subject to temporary tariff rate, the temporary tariff rate shall apply.

The third option offered discounted bonds, carrying a discount of 66.3 per cent on principal, a higher coupon (part of it being capitalized), a grace period of 21 years and a final maturity of 29 years (until 2034).

Employment of up to three years gives entitlement to an allowance at the rate of 75 per cent of the basis of calculation, employment of from three to eight years to an allowance at the rate of 80 per cent of the basis of calculation and employment of more than eight years to an allowance at the rate of 100 per cent of the basis of calculation.

1. Mission subsistence allowance (daily rate)

This should also be used for periodic review of the mobility and hardship allowance, the daily subsistence allowance and education grants.

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Provisions under standard troop reimbursement, welfare, daily allowance and clothing and equipment allowance are based on standard ratios for peacekeeping operations.

With regard to the floating interest rate loans, accounts receivable, and the investments held until their maturity, the current actual interest rate as stipulated in the contract shall be adopted as the capitalization rate in the calculation of current value of the cash flow.

SP ... These four things. Prospect theory, hyperbolic discounting, status quo bias, base rate bias. They're all well documented.

Investment can sustainably drive growth only up to the point when returns decline dramatically. In the case of public sector investment, that means that the present value of the increment to the future GDP path (using a social discount rate) is greater than the investment itself.

The answer depends on two key variables the discount rate and future earnings growth. A lower discount rate and or a higher rate of expected earnings growth would justify higher equity valuations.

Since 1 January 1985, the interest (discount) rate established by the Board for the lump sum commutations of periodic benefits under article 28 (g) of the Regulations of the Fund has remained at the annual rate of 6.5 per cent.

4. Reaffirms that the vacancy rate is a tool for budgetary calculations and should not be used to achieve budgetary savings

Accommodation and meal allowance at a rate of 125 per person day.