These initiatives also reduce transport and its burden on the environment.

(a) Fiscal incentives reduce the tax burden for a foreign investor.

Agreement on an expanded core document would reduce this burden.

Burkina Faso welcomes the decisions taken to reduce the poor countries' debt burden.

New repayment modalities must therefore be put in place to reduce the debt burden.

Significant steps had also been taken to reduce the debt burden of the most heavily indebted poor countries.

Significant steps have also been taken to reduce the burden of debt on the most heavily indebted poor countries.

(d) Formalize international collaboration and coordination to reduce response burden and make the most efficient use of existing resources

Burundi has a heavy debt burden which urgently needs to be alleviated to help revive the economy and reduce poverty.

The Ministry is of the view that the use of the forms would reduce the administrative burden for industry and competent authorities.

Aid and debt cancellation, while they are welcome and reduce the burden on developing countries, have in the long term only limited effect.

The Counter Terrorism Committee should recognize the difficulties and work with the Pacific Islands Forum to explore mechanisms that might reduce the reporting burden.

The overriding objective of this effort was to reduce the respondent's burden, to synchronize and harmonize data processing routines and to disseminate identical data.

We must take the opportunity to reduce the great burden of disease posed by malaria, a disease that is both highly treatable and preventable.

This initiative provides a framework for implementing a strategy of burden sharing among all creditors to reduce HIPC debt to a sustainable level.

The Committee discussed changes to the format and content of its concluding observations which would reduce the reporting burden on States and improve its dialogue with them.

(e) Recognizing and supporting caregivers, and providing information and resources to improve community based care, and to reduce the burden of care on women and girls

In addition, international burden sharing remained essential to help reduce the negative economic and ecological impact of refugee influxes in the developing world and to sustain protection.

Due to the efforts undertaken by the Government to reduce the burden of servicing foreign debt, some progress has been achieved in the restructuring of bilateral debts in recent years.

The steps taken by Paris Club creditors to reduce the debt burden of the least developed countries through the HIPC initiative had not yet yielded any visible signs of relief.

The only way to sustainably reduce this massive burden of disease is through the use of safe drinking water, sanitation and improved hygiene practices, in particular hand washing with soap.

Because many contracts are sticky (that is, not easily revised) in monetary terms, inflation and deflation would both inflict damage on the economy. Rising prices reduce the value of savings and pensions, while falling prices reduce profit expectations, encourage hoarding, and increase the real burden of debt.

That no bearer of burden shall bear the burden of another

That no bearer of burden shall bear the burden of another

The Chair, Country Programme Support Group, United Nations Development Group, explained that the Support Group received requests from country teams to reduce the burden on them and national counterparts in the programme process.

Surveys of domestic expenditures were initially conducted on an annual basis but, since 1999, to reduce the burden on financial and human resources, countries have been surveyed on a biennial basis.

That no bearer of a burden shall bear the burden of another,

That no bearer of a burden shall bear the burden of another,

31. The Government continues to pursue a policy of increased home ownership, both to alleviate the housing shortage and to reduce the burden of increasing repair and maintenance costs for its rented accommodations.

When the recession is over, the US and virtually every other country will have substantially higher debt to GDP ratios. At that point, it will be important to develop policies to reduce gradually the relative level of government spending in order to shift to fiscal surpluses and reduce the debt burden.

Japanese President Shinzo Abe also told the media in the morning of October 1 that he would seriously accept this result and make efforts to revitalize Okinawa and reduce the burden on the base.

Further simplification and harmonization of the rules and procedures should lessen the diversity of requirements, and reduce the administrative and financial burden on the programme countries and the agencies themselves, without infringing on their independence.

As a result, considerable attention has been given to malaria control from the very inception of the country's health sector development programme, in order to reduce the overall burden of the disease's morbidity and mortality.

That plan aims to reduce the burden of malaria by 25 per cent by the end of this year, and achieve the Abuja Roll Back Malaria target of 50 per cent by the year 2010.

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and the burden bearers

6 For a good account of the 1980s debt strategies, see the report by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, entitled Latin America and the Caribbean options to reduce the debt burden , 1990.

56. The length of a communication should be decided by the submitting Party. Every effort should be made to avoid overly lengthy communications in order to reduce the paper burden and to facilitate the consideration process.

If women have access to hospitals and clinics, they are less likely to die in childbirth. These hospitals and clinics in turn reduce the burden of illness and deaths from other causes as well.

In that respect, Nicaragua welcomed the recent initiative of the World Bank and IMF to reduce the debt servicing burden of the most heavily indebted poor countries to sustainable levels, and looked forward to its early implementation.

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More needed to be done to reduce the burden of disasters on the poor and the most vulnerable the focus must be on preventive rather than reactive measures, by taking into account the likely consequences of climate change.

The international community agreed to further reduce the debt burden of poor countries through the recent debt initiative for heavily indebted poor countries (HIPC), which was endorsed by the most industrialized countries at their annual summit in 1996.