"The challenge is, how do we increase the value added of the grapes," she said.
E.U. ministers reckon that Greece should take more drastic steps quickly to cut its public wage bill, increase the value added tax and further increase the fuel tax to achieve a promised deficit reduction this year of 4 percent of G.D.P.
So now the marketing men try to encourage tourists to roam more widely among the Out Islands.The aim is to draw on local expertise and culture to increase the value added in the Bahamas, says William Allen, minister of finance.
Unable to move the exchange rate and unwilling to cut wages, the Portuguese government is embarked on an innovative course of "fiscal devaluation," meaning it will cut payroll taxes, to reduce the cost of labor, while increasing the value added tax, or VAT (a tax on consumption), as a way to maintain fiscal revenues.
Despite their relatively good performance in terms of CO2-emissions, it seems important for those regions' sustainable development to increase the value added in tourism, by reinforcing the linkages with other relevant regional economic sectors.
If this is the case, it would also explain the reluctance of governments to regulate eating and other consumption habits that negatively affect the general population by, for example, increasing the value added tax (VAT) on food products that are high in sugar and saturated fats, and decreasing VAT on fruits and vegetables, for example.
First, in 2002 2007, upgrading of industrial structure and an increase in labor cost led to an increase in the value added coefficient of industries.
In a note posted on his Facebook page on Saturday, Mr. Berlusconi announced that the ministers in his party would step down to protest a 1 percent increase in the value added tax, set to go into effect on Tuesday.
The increase in the value added of the non-oil sector, which relies to a larger extent on imports to satisfy its production requirements, is significantly smaller (3.5 %).
The combined injection leads to a significant increase in the value added of the oil sector (14.5 %), which has relatively low input requirements from other sectors.
