The Commission is developing a minority index with a view to facilitating affirmative action for minorities.

The report addresses the different aspects involved in the construction of the index, with a view to assessing its feasibility.

The ratio of women is still lower in some sectors and lines of business (View index 3.6)

The report contains the summary of discussions on the different components relevant in the construction of the index, with a view to assessing its feasibility.

The Advisory Committee recommended the “elaboration of alternative methods for adjusting remuneration according to market exchange rates and movement of the local cost-of-living index, with a view towards protecting the level of the remuneration, as requested by the General Assembly” (para.

The Committee therefore recommended the elaboration of alternative methods for adjusting remuneration according to market exchange rates and movement of the local cost-of-living index, with a view to protecting the levels of the remuneration as requested by the General Assembly.

In view of the above, the Committee recommends elaboration of alternative methods for adjusting remuneration according to market exchange rates and movement of the local cost-of-living index, with a view towards protecting the level of the remuneration, as requested by the General Assembly.

The Court had earlier taken note of paragraph 10 of the report (A/61/612 and Corr.1) in which the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions recommended that alternative methods be elaborated for adjusting remuneration according to market exchange rates and movements of the local cost-of-living index, with a view to protecting the level of remuneration, and that the new proposals be presented by the Secretary-General in a report to the General Assembly at its sixty-second session.