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[...] markets and favorable pricing.

[...] sessions, experts emphasized price volatility as one [...] [...]

[...] conditions, market demand, pricing, protection of intellectual [...] [...]

Post adjustment of the Professional and higher category staff in Paris was increased as a result of the cost-of-living survey conducted by the ICSC in 2010.

The recosting reflected in the report of the Secretary-General on the effect of changes in rates of exchange and inflation on the proposed budgets of both the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda and the International Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia for the biennium 2010–2011 (A/64/570) reflects the impact of the latest data on actual inflation, the outcome of salary surveys, the annual cost-of-living adjustments, the movement of post adjustment indices in 2009 and the effect of the evolution of operational rates of exchange in 2009.

[...] [...] multiplier points into the base scale with a corresponding readjustment in the post adjustment multipliers, the annual [...] [...]

The failure to use PAREs, which were an integral part of the existing scale methodology, had led to a considerable upward distortion of the assessments of States whose national currencies had experienced wide fluctuations and undergone substantial revaluation [...] [...]

By taking stock of the results of the evaluation quality assessment review and by studying the information obtained from the country programme evaluation survey, the Evaluation Branch devised a three-tiered strategy to enhance the quality of organization-wide evaluations.

[...] [...] verify and evaluate the “investigation result” on [...]

Notwithstanding that the existing FAM and its components in the formula were thoroughly discussed and considered by the community and the Legislative Council during the rail merger, the Government is alive to the recent views that factors such as MTRCL's profit level, service performance, and public affordability and acceptability should also be taken into consideration when MTR fares are reviewed each year according to the FAM.

However, the amount would be adjusted prior to the adoption of the outline to include the latest amendments proposed by the Advisory Committee and the Fifth Committee and recosting based on the updated parameters applied in the first performance report on the programme budget for the biennium 2010-2011 (A/65/589) in respect of operational rates of exchange, actual inflation experience, payroll experience and the movement of post adjustment multipliers and cost-of-living adjustments.

For the purpose of evaluation, transparency refers to at least three criteria: (a) the accuracy and reliability of the evaluation findings, which in turn depends on the level of qualification and independence of the evaluators; (b) the reliability of the evaluation itself (globally accepted norms and standards); and (c) the dissemination and use of the report, including recommendations.

[...] be paid post adjustment calculated on [...]

The existing FAM is a direct-drive formula that takes into account changes in the Composite Consumer Price Index (“CCPI”) and the Nominal Wage Index of the Transportation Section (“NWI(TS)”) as well as a pre-determined productivity factor.

[...] [...] adjustments; (b) cost adjustment related to posts, including salary scale revisions, with in-grade salary increments, post adjustments [...] [...]

[...] [...] mechanism, the nineteenth Meeting of States Parties decided on 26 June 2009 to set the annual net base salary of the members of the Tribunal at $161,681 as of 1 July 2009, with a corresponding post adjustment multiplier equal to 1 per cent of the net base salary, to which would be applied the post adjustment multiplier for Hamburg, as appropriate, taking into account the post adjustment mechanism as proposed by the Secretary-General in paragraph 77 of his report on conditions of service and compensation for officials other than Secretariat officials (A/62/538).1 21.

In accordance with the approved methodology, ICSC carries out an annual review of Post Adjustment to check that international Professional salaries in duty stations away from New York (i.e. the base of the salary system) have the same purchasing power as those received by equivalent staff in New York; and to make adjustments, where necessary.

[...] [...] salary (excluding post adjustment).

[...] [...] staff, such as post adjustment, and is also [...] [...]

(a) Staff costs: Changes in the post adjustment multipliers for international Professionals, as well as staff entitlements, result in a decrease of $11.6 million in the projected standard costs of international posts.

(d) The amount of the special post allowance shall be equivalent to the salary increase (including post adjustment and dependency allowances, if any) which the staff member would have received had the staff member been promoted to the next higher level.

China did not overtake the average of the G7 in GDP PPP terms until year 2000, but it was contributing more to global growth much earlier than that, around 1991.