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It is generally agreed that the Brazilian strategy relies on three key principles: political leadership from the top starting with the President; heavy involvement of civic and community organizations which are essential for reaching the poor and helping them take the complicated regimen of drugs; cheap medicine to treat the patients as a result of national production and effective negotiation with international drug companies.

Even where such facilities, goods and services are provided with the involvement of private sector or civil society entities, States are responsible for ensuring quality, affordability and coverage and have the duty to protect individuals against abuses committed by private service providers.

They emphasized the need to diversify energy by developing advanced, cleaner, more efficient, affordable and cost-effective energy technologies, including fossil fuel technologies and renewable energy technologies, and their transfer to developing countries on concessional terms as mutually agreed in order to promote sustainable energy systems with the objective of increasing its contribution to total energy supply, recognizing the role of national initiatives and priorities and voluntary targets, where they exist, and ensuring that energy policies are supportive to developing countries’ efforts to eradicate poverty, and regularly evaluate available data to review progress to this end.

Under the main themes of poverty and human rights and the social dimension of the globalization process, the Forum heard expert presentations and held interactive debates on the following topics and their relationship to poverty: the normative framework of human rights and extreme poverty; foreign debt; international trade policies; the role and responsibility of the State, civil society and transnational corporations in poverty eradication; international assistance and cooperation in poverty reduction and eradication; decent and favourable work conditions; good governance/corruption; access to affordable essential drugs and health care; climate change; and food security, the food crisis and the right to food.

Such mercury production would require both accessible mercury ores and low-cost labor in order for it to occur despite low-priced mercury available in the global commodity market.

[...] [...] illegally to undertake cheap labour jobs and [...]

(f) The efforts exerted by the Council of Arab Ministers of Housing and Construction, in cooperation with member States, to implement Millennium Development Goal 7, target d., particularly with respect to improving the lives of slum dwellers and eradicating slum areas by providing low-cost social housing and building new towns.

The provision of efficient, reliable and affordable shipping services to, from, between and within island and archipelagic developing countries presents a number of unique constraints and challenges.

[...] market-dominated demands for “cheap” extraction, there [...] [...]

[...] [...] availability and low price of HCFC-22, coupled [...] [...]

Lower entry-level prices for computers, [...] [...]

[...] [...] technology at affordable prices in order to achieve [...] [...]

[...] [...] quick, accurate, inexpensive changes to the product, [...] [...]

[...] [...] that the “age of cheap oil” was over [...] [...]

FAO has provided technical support in the preparation of a Regional Policy for Food and Nutrition Security (RPFNS) in the LAC region to ensure that the regional food production, processing, distribution, marketing and trade, and food safety and agricultural public health system is capable of providing safe, adequate, nutritious and affordable food for the subregion’s inhabitants at all times.

[...] secure, reliable and affordable energy [...] [...]

With the entry into some markets of cheap drop-in substitutes for CFC-12 and with declining prices for HFC-134a and HCFC-22, CFC stockpiles could quickly be transformed into a costly liability.

[...] [...] economically at a lower price than the patentee.

[...] [...] uses of DDT, an inexpensive and effective pesticide [...]

[...] accustomed to cheap Cambodian labour.

[...] [...] images and text; cheap and badly cut [...] [...]

The telecommunications equipment maker is starting with about a 5% market share in the U.S., a reputation mostly for budget phones, and fierce competition from companies such as Apple Inc.

(d) Unaccompanied shipments shall normally be made in one consignment, and related expenses shall be reimbursed on the basis of the maximum entitlement provided under the present rule for transportation by the most economical means, as determined by the Secretary-General, between the places of departure and destination of the staff member on official travel or his or her family members.

(j) On travel on appointment, assignment, transfer or separation from service of a staff member for whom removal costs will be paid under staff rule 7.16, a staff member may be reimbursed the costs of advance shipment by the most economical means up to a maximum amount established by the Secretary-General.

As energy-saving lighting in the promising field of LED, it is expected to be alternative materials for existing organic sealing materials that is deteriorated under strong UV light, to be economical and simple emitting materials by excluding RE elements in terms of energy saving, and to contribute to realizing white LEDs by the combination of UV LEDs and low-melting glasses.

[...] [...] tend to employ cheap foreign labour, [...]

In the strategy to move up the value chain, a propitious environmental climate, reliable and cheap electricity, an industrial free zone, economies of agglomeration are among the most important components of a policy package.

This flurry of stories comes just 2 months after China Eastern (HKEx: 670; Shanghai: 600115; NYSE: CEA), one of China’s top 3 carriers, announced plans to partner with Australia’s Quantas (Sydney: QAN) to launch a China-focused regional budget airlines based out of Hong Kong.