And though the equation is largely subjective, you can perhaps quantify people, and perhaps quantify affluence, but technology is abusive in too many ways to quantify.

It was difficult to quantify the indigenous population.

These differences distort decisions about investment allocation and financing. Reforms that made the tax system simpler, fairer, and less distortionary would have a beneficial effect on economic growth, although economists concede that the size of this effect is uncertain and impossible to quantify.

(i) Quantify the effects of the measures it implements

(b) To quantify the social, economic and environmental implications of

Because the GM is a resource mobilization mechanism that is not primarily responsible for providing project funding, it is difficult to quantify the GM's direct effect on financial assistance flows to affected developing country parties.

The cost of these services would be extremely difficult to quantify.

This cost is difficult to quantify at this stage.

Because the Global Mechanism is a resource mobilization mechanism that is not primarily responsible for providing project funding, it is difficult to quantify its direct effect on financial assistance flows to affected developing country parties.

In paragraph 117, the Board of Auditors reiterated its recommendation that UNFPA quantify the financial effect of audit qualifications made in respect of nationally executed expenditure and continue to evaluate such qualifications against action plans for reasonableness.

In paragraph 114 of the report, UNDP agreed with the Board's reiterated recommendation that it (a) quantify the financial effect of qualified audit opinions on nationally executed expenditure and (b) evaluate such qualifications against the action plans for reasonableness.

In paragraph 117 of its report, the Board reiterated its recommendation that UNFPA quantify the financial effect of audit qualifications made in respect of nationally executed expenditure and continue to evaluate such qualifications against action plans for reasonableness.

Saudi Arabia uses Habitat Equivalency Analysis ( HEA ) to quantify its losses.

More broadly, the Secretariat should quantify the savings made when proposing outputs for deletion.

It was, however, rather difficult to quantify benefits before the programmes had been implemented.

Demand is very difficult to quantify for the marginalized and excluded segments of the population.

Over the years, various efforts had been made to quantify the elements covered by the margin.

Steps to quantify and include the unremunerated domestic activities of women in the gross national product.

Step 3. Quantify retirement, health, life accident and other relevant non cash schemes.

However, for a number of reasons these consequences are extremely difficult to quantify.

Inadequate monitoring made it difficult to quantify the overall damage to marine life from such activities.

The evaluation report did not, however, quantify how much of these gains was attributable to the project.

Although the implementation of the security measures in SOLAS and the International Ship and Port Facility Security Code is expected to have a positive impact on the reduction of piracy and armed robbery incidents, it is still too soon to quantify the effect of their implementation.

Project agreements should specify and quantify the direct technical inputs to be provided by an executing agency.

The information is used to quantify the volume of activity in criminal courts and to help identify crime types.

ARS researchers also developed fluorescence techniques and a prototype fluorescent instrument to discriminate and quantify crop residues.

UNDP gender mainstreaming policies lack clear objectives, targets and time frames, making it difficult to quantify progress.

And it's our attempt to quantify beauty by finding which regions of the brain are interactive while witnessing something beautiful.

Rating scales and other questionnaire techniques will be employed to enable the assessors to quantify the perceptions as far as possible.

The issue of how to quantify the resources devoted to outputs has, in one form or another, been around for many years.

It will be possible to quantify this amount only after a decision has been taken on the physical location of the Secretariat

Step 2. Identify and quantify all cash and non cash remuneration elements paid by the minimal number of potential best comparators.

Recommendation to specify and quantify the direct technical inputs is being implemented in UNDP funded projects through technical support services contracts.

There is clearly considerable tension on this issue and it is too early to quantify the progress that is being made.

The agency should make a special effort to quantify and publicize the real harm to consumers caused by the cartels that it prosecutes.

The Panel, therefore, concludes that Kuwait has not provided sufficient evidence to enable the Panel to quantify the magnitude of any lost biomass.

So this is what's driving the effect, or mediating the effect.

They never really codify it or qualify it or quantify it, and say, This is what I believe in.

Some countries, for example Kenya and the Republic of Korea, reported on efforts to quantify women's contribution to the gross domestic product (GDP).

The reason I quantify that is because we really embarked on this as a mutual journey to really get inside of it.

The Parties to the Convention which have greenhouse gas emission reduction commitments must quantify, report, reduce and mitigate their national emissions of greenhouse gases.

She explained that the second paper focused on three examples where attempts to quantify the impact of massive refugee populations have been carried out.

As well, there are benefits arising from the standardization of systems that are of a more qualitative nature and thus difficult to quantify.

Mr. Sach (Controller), responding to members' comments, said that it had not been traditional practice to quantify individual outputs in the budget proposal.

201. Some members considered that the current language incentive scheme was not rational, that it was indirect, difficult to quantify and not transparent.