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External sources (not reviewed)

It was also agreed that, if the one-third/two-thirds formula was a fair assumption for the reimbursement of staffing costs, it should also be used for costs that had previously not been shared: general temporary assistance, computer, office space and audit costs.

[...] [...] providers of assessed contributions [...] [...]

The amounts received from this additional assessment are allocated to the long-term investment portfolio in proportion to the overall Member Nation assessments actually paid.

The President also recalled that the States Parties have expressed satisfaction with the performance, efficiency, professional competence, responsiveness and dedication of the ISU and that there was general agreement among the Task Force members on the need to review the financing model of the ISU, in order to make it sustainable and predictable, and to achieve more equitable burden sharing.

Turning to the report of the Secretary-General on the revised estimates for the International Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia for the biennium 2010-2011 (A/65/183), he recalled that, in paragraph 5 of the report on the financing of the Tribunal for the biennium 2010-2011 (A/64/476), the Secretary-General had indicated that factors beyond the Tribunal’s control would affect the completion dates of trials and that, should the trial schedule vary significantly, the requirements would be reassessed and relevant changes would be addressed in the context of revised estimates.

Given the magnitude of the problem, the solutions are requiring shared responsibility, international solidarity and burden sharing.

In view of its own 30 C/Resolution 65 which stated that the UNESCO scale of assessments of Member States for 2001 shall be calculated on the basis of the scale adopted by the United Nations General Assembly at its fifty-fifth session with the same minimum rate and the same maximum rate, UNESCO applied the reduced maximum amount for 2001 and proposed scales calculated in a similar way for 2002-2003 to the 31st session of the General Conference.

The mix temperature behind the screed was absolutely uniform.

Potential compulsory licensees would therefore have to charge a price closer to full economic cost (including start-up and manufacturing costs) as compared to the possibility of providing off-the-shelf generics at prices where start-up costs have already been amortised to some extent on the domestic market.

Overall, our aim is for the long-term cost of smoothing to be broadly neutral across generations of policyholders.

Decides that, in accordance with the provisions of its resolution 973 (X) of 15 December 1955, there shall be set off against the apportionment among Member States, as provided for in paragraphs 4 and 5 above, their respective share in the Tax Equalization Fund in the amount of 12,809,200 dollars, including 2,891,900 dollars, being the increase in the estimated staff assessment income approved for the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda for the biennium 2008–2009.

Some of these countries also underscored their opposition to any retroactive adjustment to the scale of assessment as it would “bring unwanted difficulties in budget planning and programme delivery of the Organization and would seriously harm the stability and predictability needed in United Nations system financing”.

[...] [...] separate assessed contributions to the Codex budget, in addition to the FAO or WHO assessed contributions [...]

To deal with policy requests, these regulatory agencies must outsource tasks to other ministries, or to energy companies, who will seek every opportunity to promote and protect their own vested interests.

For States Parties or signatories which are not members of the United Nations the share will be determined on the basis of the similarly pro-rated scale in force for determining this share in the activities in which they take part.

The representation status of Member States is affected by many factors, in particular the turnover of staff and changes in the scale of assessments.

[...] remuneration shall be divided amongst the Directors as they shall mutually [...] [...]

The review recommended a number of fundamental changes, including (a) that the distinction between fixed and variable indirect costs no longer be used in calculating cost-recovery so that all indirect costs would be considered in calculating cost recovery; and (b) that development effectiveness activities and associated costs be directly funded from core and non-core resources, so that recovered costs would pay their proportional share of management and comparable special purpose costs (UNW/2012/13, paras. 2 and 11).

[...] [...] assess and share the risk and benefits [...]

[...] [...] an arena for a showdown with us in its [...]

[...] [...] additional to their assessed contributions.

[...] [...] burden sharing among the States Parties.

[...] [...] United Nations-assessed contributions, [...] [...]

Driven by the ideology of modernizationism, the notion that the tertiary sector represents the most advanced economic development (Fourastié, 1949; cf. the discussion in Huang, 2009, and Huang Zongzhi, 2008b), and the wish to represent China as a more modern economy than it really is, the NSB has been fronting the most modernsounding groups of the service sector, such as “Information Transmissions,” “Computer Service and Software,” “Finance and Insurance,” “Leasing and Business Services,” “Scientific Research,” “Culture, Sports, and Entertainment,” and so on, downplaying in effect the much larger numbers of migrant peddlers, domestics, restaurant help, street cleaners, residential community guards, and other such migrant workers (nongmingong) who are also grouped under the service sector.

The Organization’s accounting treatment for exchange gains and losses both prior to and after the implementation of the split assessment arrangement has been to calculate and transfer all foreign exchange related gains and losses to the SRA, consistent with the general direction provided by the related SRA Conference Resolutions.

For instance, several jurisdictions have stressed the need for local incorporation of the foreign commercial presence (as subsidiaries rather than branches) as a condition for the admission of foreign financial institutions, clearer distribution of costs between home and host countries in the event of cross-border insolvencies and being cautious in allowing foreign financial firms to offer new financial products in its territory even if they are permitted to supply them in their home country.

Provisional cash surplus (€1,690,086) + arrears of prior periods’ contributions received in 2011 (€251,923) + savings from the provisions made from unliquidated obligations (€108,674) – surrender of part of the cash surplus for the 2009-2010 financial period (SPLOS/203) (€176,704) = cash surplus to be surrendered to the States parties (€1,873,979).

LAGOS, Nigeria, 30 March 2007 – After walking through the narrow paths – among stalls of vegetables, fish and meat, and dazed by the loud noise of a pepper-grinding machine – customers come to the poultry section of the bustling Ikotun market in Lagos.

[...] [...] so that the assessed contributions [...] [...]