Sentences with phrase «by the relative costs»

Such choices are likely to be determined by relative costs.

Not exact matches

Ookla's Net Index ranks Canada 20th in relative cost of broadband — or the price of a subscription divided by a nation's gross domestic product per capita.

Success will be measured by CP's operating ratio, an expression of a railway's operating costs relative to its revenues.

On the cost side, the same increase in the policy rate might cut output by up to 1 per cent and push inflation down by 0.5 percentage point relative to what it would have been otherwise.

The fact that this topic is popular on here may serve you well if this was expanded a bit more (which you just did with the couples angle, but perhaps looking at other data sources to help quantify what people's net worth is... and perhaps with respect to geography / cost of living... also how to maximize your relative net worth by moving to a low cost area — which I plan to do (abroad)!.

Much of the venture activity in edtech in the US posits that edtech will look more like SAAS companies in other sectors, high growth driven by a stable low cost of user acquisition relative to life time value.

Price - to - Earnings Ratio (P / E Ratio)-- How much a stock costs relative to how much the company earns per share of stock; calculated by dividing the stock price by the company's earnings per share (EPS)

This style of «nontariff barrier» — a protectionist stratagem the U.S. has long condemned in other countries — is designed to reduce the relative cost of cars manufactured in the U.S., by American workers, the officials said.

This is further reinforced by the rise in the cost of buying a home relative to the deterioration in household real income.

The challenge of judging how much response was necessary has been complicated by the global credit turmoil, which has had the effect of pushing up actual borrowing costs relative to the cash rate the Reserve Bank sets.

The Transaction Cost Analysis survey conducted by Elkins / McSherry compared investment firms» trading costs relative to the volume - weighted average price, based on a universe of approximately 1,400 managers.

And offering tax credits related to the cost of education and training obviously helps raise relative earnings by enlisting individuals» active involvement in the buildup of their «human capital.»

These stories deal with the problems of living with Alzheimer's Disease or stroke damage, the abuse of the elderly by their children, nursing home horror stories, the cost of long - term care, and the problems of those who must work, care for their children, and also care for elderly relatives.

Simply judging by relative deliciousness against every other menu item in every town in America, one Carnitas Lonja taco probably should cost $ 15.

But it is a safe bet to predict that nothing will be said about how, given that the tax systems in other jurisdictions are similarly complex and address similar issues, the UK happens to be the sole outlier, and by a massive margin — or how jurisdictions where unit costs are significantly higher nevertheless manage to sustain higher relative fiscal takes.

«The goal should be to provide relative stability for taxpayers while accounting for the costs needed to provide services — many of which are required of public schools and supported by their communities.»

But the Kennedy campaign got what the Wilson campaign did not — $ 288,000 of its costs paid for by the state Democratic Party, close to the same amount Mr. Kennedy's business associates, relatives and friends donated to the party.

A campaign lead by the Conservative MP Robert Halfon exposed the varying degree in cost relatives face when visiting sick loved ones.

The goal is to rid the region of P. falciparum by 2025 and its milder relative P. vivax by 2030, for an estimated cost of $ 3 billion.

Not only do many of the ethical challenges posed by embryonic stem cells remain, but the relative ease and low cost of iPS techniques, combined with the accessibility of cells, accelerate the need to address futuristic - sounding possibilities such as creating gametes for reproduction.

Surgery of an acute subdural hematoma followed by intensive care and rehabilitation involve major costs and can cause significant suffering to patients and relatives.

For a person running at a typical casual runner's pace of 2.5 meters per second (9 km / hr, or 5.6 mph) it can be shown, based on data collected by LG Pugh for the study titled «The influence of wind resistance in running and walking and the mechanical efficiency of work against horizontal or vertical forces,» that the energy cost of air resistance while running on solid ground is roughly 0.84 calories per kilometer (this is equivalent to approximately an extra 1.2 % calorie burn relative to a runner on a treadmill).

If slots in oversubscribed schools were systematically allocated to the highest - risk students, the social cost of crime would fall by an additional 27 percent relative to the actual CMS assignment mechanism.

The author estimates that this policy choice lowered the social cost of crime by about 12 percent, relative to a simple charter - style lottery with no preferential treatment.

Such a move exposes the government to less risk, and thus reduces the cost to taxpayers (using fair - value accounting practices that take into account the relative risk imposed on taxpayers by different policies).

We found that found that half of the 154 private providers used by 16 trusts do not have individual Ofsted reports, raising serious questions about the quality of provision on offer relative to its cost.

This analysis by Marguerite Roza published by Education Next in summer 2009 examines ways in which per - pupil spending in high schools varies by subject and course level, and demonstrates how isolating spending on discrete services can 1) identify the relationships between priorities, current spending, and outcomes; 2) clarify both relative spending on discrete services and the organizational practices that influence how resources are deployed; and 3) establish the current cost of providing high school services as a necessary precursor to identifying whether there are better ways to provide some services.

First, the authors explain that it «was determined by first identifying a typical cost for professional development based on previous state experiences implementing academic standards, weighed by the relative size of this states.»

And when a however cautiously decontented, potential fuel miser costs almost as much as its fully equipped, twelve - cylinder stablemate, there is a distinct danger that its somewhat relative efficiency claims won't mean much against the image bonus conferred by its top - spec sibling.

BMW was able to improve fuel economy by 16 % relative to the old Ford - sourced supercharged powerplant, yet the incremental manufacturing cost is on the order of just EUR 100.

The electro - hydraulic variable valve actuation technology developed by Fiat was selected for its relative simplicity, low power requirements, intrinsic fail safe nature and low cost potential.

While Fredericksburg's mortgage costs were high relative to other places in Texas, they still fall well under the 28 % maximum ratio preferred by most mortgage lenders.

In evaluating how the stocks held by the Strategic Growth Fund have performed, we estimate a positive correlation between the brokerage costs we incurred in any given quarter and the performance of our stock holdings relative to the S&P 500.

Since it wasn't covered by insurance, I paid the full cost, but I saved money relative to going to a MinuteClinic.

By contrast, we contend that private market inefficiencies — and corresponding return premia — are driven by their relative illiquidity, unpredictable pricing, opacity, high transaction costs, and limited numbers of prospective buyers and sellerBy contrast, we contend that private market inefficiencies — and corresponding return premia — are driven by their relative illiquidity, unpredictable pricing, opacity, high transaction costs, and limited numbers of prospective buyers and sellerby their relative illiquidity, unpredictable pricing, opacity, high transaction costs, and limited numbers of prospective buyers and sellers.

Similarly, Porter says a company with a differentiation strategy should aim for cost parity or proximity relative to its competitors by reducing costs in all areas that do not affect differentiation.

Scarred by their experience, they are more likely to keep their money on the sidelines, or be overly conservative (relative to their age) in their investment choices — a potentially huge opportunity cost.

Over the years, he's occasionally weighed in on the relative merits of low - cost «passive» index - based investing and higher - cost «actively managed» investing epitomized by retail mutual funds, wrap accounts and (in the case of CPP), actively managed pension mandates.

For example, a common arrangement is for the employee to pay the cost of term insurance relative to the policy and if the policy is permanent life insurance, such as a cash value life insurance policy OR indexed universal life, the cost of term may be substantially less than the actual cost paid by the employer.

Whether or not this is actually worse depends on the relative cost of the 4th night and the average nightly rate, but it definitely eliminates the ability to get outsized value by structuring your stay so that 4th night is relatively expensive.

While I can see, through these comments, that people can and do interpret recognizing the relative ease of one's own difficulty setting and acting on that recognition as a hardship, or coming at personal cost, I am baffled by that view.

He surprised me by suggesting that BD isn't really the way to fly considering its high cost; in terms of dollars relative to regular diesel (including the federal bio-subsidy), lower BTU, and especially displacement of agricultural land to production of fuel crops.

The paper address many potential issues including the relative cost of space - based versus terrestrial solar and shows why space - based in the synergistic mode proposed by us is complementary to large scale solar (PV and solar thermal) massively deployed in deserts, which many now argue is the only way to go for solar power.

But overall there are initial costs that fall in relative terms the more Golden Rice is grown and consumed, i.e., each successive year in which Golden Rice is eaten by its beneficiaries, and each additional region where it is grown will help «cut» the initial costs.

After taking these existing environmental regulations into account, the projections for electricity generation and its resulting emissions are primarily determined by the available capacity and relative operating costs of the different technologies.

Under a «best guess» (or median) scenario, experts anticipate 24 % — 30 % reductions in the levelized cost of energy by 2030 and 35 % — 41 % reductions by 2050 across the three wind applications studied, relative to 2014 baseline values (Figure 1).

Although technological progress can alter the relative costs of different energy sources, depletion inevitably must raise the costs of fossil fuels leading to their displacement by alternative energy sources.

This post compares the proposed costs relative to recent rate requests and approved rate increases by New York State (NYS) electric utilities.

Now they're being used by the new IMPACT2C project, which is looking to provide new estimates for the impact and economic cost of climate change in Europe if global warming is limited to the international goal of no more than 2 degrees Celsius, relative to Western European pre-industrial levels.

Finally, emissions mitigation and financial results were drawn by comparing scenarios using an analyzed set of variables to describe the relative emissions and costs of Portland cement and High Volume Fly Ash cement.