Ad Hoc Working Group on Trade Efficiency

Adam Smith had a very important notion of efficiency.

Importance of cost Effectiveness analysis The cost benefit analysis (CBA) is based on the economic standard of efficiency.

Efficiency must have a purpose beyond itself.

The clarification of respective mandates is not the sole guarantee of efficiency.

The innate nature of aptitude is in contrast to achievement, which represents knowledge or ability that is gained through learning.

Mr. James Clawson, CEO, Global Alliance for Trade Efficiency, United States

If you think about Adam Smith versus Karl Marx, Adam Smith had the very important notion of efficiency.

This is not the result of efficiency (the most effective cosmetics frequently become pharmaceutical drugs).

We should all understand that in this new era, efficiency at the United Nations has a human face.

less time wasted, and that partly accounts for Europe's better efficiency than we have in the United States.

A second response is to acknowledge the distributional implications, but to accept them as the price of efficiency and openness.

The value for the pump efficiency, formula_21, may be stated for the pump itself or as a combined efficiency of the pump and motor system.

Non economists tend to think of economics as a discipline that idolizes markets and a narrow concept of (allocative) efficiency.

Some US federal agencies are trying to spend ten times their previous budgets not a recipe for efficiency or speed.

However, for the sake of efficiency, there will be a need to assign specific issues to ad hoc working groups at an appropriate time.

We should bear in mind that in this era of plentiful emergencies and limited resources efficiency has a human face.

In many ways, Bo personified the Chinese concept of meritocracy well educated, intelligent, sophisticated, and charming (mainly to Western executives). But, after his fall, a very different picture emerged.

OIA considers that this average period is close to the maximum level of efficiency given staff travel schedules and other assignments.

Managers in such left societies are no less technically capable, but their organizational constraints, incentives, and goals are less pro shareholder.

We must of course constantly remind ourselves that there has to be a clear purpose behind moves towards efficiency.

I wish to join previous speakers in expressing profound gratitude to his predecessor for the effectiveness with which he presided over the General Assembly at its forty eighth session.

In the residential, commercial and institutional sector, energy efficient lighting is of most interest in this region six Parties in the region targeted this technology.

By comparison, the national proficiency average is 30 per cent for the fourth grade and 31 per cent for the eighth grade.

111. UNCTAD Ad Hoc Working Group on Trade Efficiency, third session Trade and Development Board decision 398 (XXXVIII) and General Assembly resolution 47 183

For purposes of efficiency, it would be desirable that participation be limited, for example, to 20 to 30 members, taking into account the necessary geographical balance.

The task...was to create a new...conservative... Republican majority so political effectiveness was the priority, not the accounting deficiencies of government...

National governments introduce efficiency standards, taxes, and other policy instruments to improve the environmental performance of buildings, vehicles, and transport fuels.

Overall, DFAM has achieved a net reduction of three posts as a result of further efficiency gains from investment in integrated systems and through internal efficiency measures.

3. Recommends that all States give due consideration to the Legislative Guide when assessing the economic efficiency of their insolvency regimes and when revising or adopting legislation relevant to insolvency

And that so called Big Dig looks like a model of efficiency next to many of Japan s infamous bridges to nowhere.

David Stevenson, Professor of International History at the London School of Economics, describes him as earning opprobrium as one of the most callous and incompetent of First World War commanders.

This tied in, of course, with the work which UNCTAD was doing in the Ad Hoc Working Group on Trade Efficiency, and would have significant world wide impact.

The system will be rolled out to field offices through the 2005 2007 period, and payroll, budget, and travel and expenses modules will also be developed and implemented, in order to enhance efficiency and financial management capacity.

Cooperation and coordination is the keystone for efficiency and effectiveness in complex peacekeeping operations, particularly for UNMOs who operate in small groups in remote locations.

Mrs. ESPINOSA CANTELLANO (Mexico), speaking on behalf of the Group of Latin American and Caribbean States (GRULAC), congratulated Mr. Magariños on his transformation of UNIDO into a model of administrative efficiency and reform within the United Nations system.

Thus, Abkhazia will be a litmus test of the renewed efficiency of our Organization, of its capacity to monitor effectively, to manage peacekeeping operations without having to delegate its responsibilities to third parties and to enact finally strategies of effective peacebuilding.

China, for its part, has become a major workhorse of globalization an assembly hub for inputs produced by multi country supply chains and an offshore efficiency solution for hard pressed Western multinational corporations.

Napolitano s move was crucial, filling Italy s need to replace the inefficient and scandal ridden Silvio Berlusconi, in whom fellow leaders and global markets had lost all confidence, with an internationally respected figure.

China, for example, is a model of despotic efficiency its internal security system extends from state of the art surveillance and extralegal detention centers to an army of paid informants and neighborhood patrols that looks out for troublemakers.

To ensure efficiency in the established negotiation process, it may be called upon to provide technical assistance concerning the General Agreement and the ways in which it has been administered, as well as broader aspects of its application in terms of desirable features of trade and foreign exchange regimes.

So, traffic keeps flowing, so that means less braking, which means less accelerating, less gas and less pollution, less time wasted, and that partly accounts for Europe's better efficiency than we have in the United States.

15.5 In support of the subprogramme on trade efficiency, at its eighth session, UNCTAD decided to set up an ad hoc working group on trade efficiency whose work will culminate at an international symposium on trade efficiency, to be held in 1994.

They offer an opportunity for the training of workers as skills developers in the occupations in which demand is greatest with the help of manuals prepared on the basis of technical standards of work competence, the persons concerned serve as disseminators of the contents of the manuals within their respective enterprises.

A low point perhaps one should say the height of ridiculousness was reached last year when rating agencies intensified their surveillance of government debt, and markets that had been victimized by the agencies incompetence and bad faith became fixated on their evaluations.