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Musharraf, concerned at all costs to avoid any military action that might provoke a tribal rebellion against his forces, tried to buy himself more political space by
cutting
deals with insurgent leaders in the FATA, signing peace agreements with the very chiefs his army should have been pursuing.
Will
cutting
employment and job-training programs land a company in the news?
So any country that reduces its saving without
cutting
its investment will see its current-account surplus decline.
By
cutting
out the middleman, these online platforms empower individuals, reduce transaction costs, and create a more inclusive economy.
Perhaps the most difficult aspect of turning the US into a good global citizen is
cutting
back on its grossly excessive greenhouse gas emissions – roughly five times the global per capita average.
To achieve this, he would need to use all of the leverage at his disposal, including
cutting
off the massive military assistance that the US provides to Egypt’s armed forces, as he has threatened to do.
Meanwhile, new energy-extraction technologies, combined with a softer trajectory for global growth, are having a marked impact on commodity prices,
cutting
deeply into the surpluses of commodity exporters from Argentina to Saudi Arabia.
In 1981, the “trade adjustment assistance (TAA) program was one of the first things Reagan attacked,
cutting
its weekly compensation payments.”
China could crush North Korea in a day just by
cutting
off food and fuel supplies.
Thus, increases of 40-50% of GDP risk
cutting
long-run growth in half in parts of Western Europe, and by one-third in America – a devastating reduction in gains in living standards over the course of a generation.
This takes into account the fact that many forest owners have no intention of
cutting
down trees, so won’t require compensation.
Indeed, the reality is that corruption imposes a large, often random, tax on businesses, not least by discouraging officials from
cutting
red tape for all firms – a move that really would boost growth.
Many people – including America’s new president – believe that global warming is the preeminent issue of our time, and that
cutting
CO2 emissions is one of the most virtuous things we can do.
Put another way, for each person saved from malaria by
cutting
CO2 emissions, direct malaria policies could have saved 36,000.
Some believe Obama should follow the lead of the European Union, which has committed itself to the ambitious goal of
cutting
carbon emissions by 20% below 1990 levels within 12 years by using renewable energy.
The Chimera of Russia’s Gas PowerRussia began 2006 by
cutting
off natural gas exports to Ukraine after its government refused to pay a fourfold increase in the subsidized price.
But, instead of letting that debate rage while the planet heats up, policymakers should embrace one of the cheapest ways of
cutting
the air pollution that lies at the root of the problem: making buildings more efficient.
Faced with a vicious combination of collapsing housing prices and imploding credit markets, the Fed has been aggressively
cutting
interest rates to try to stave off a recession.
Cutting
them would not only remove perverse incentives; it would also free up money for education, universal health care, and infrastructure in rural areas, where it is needed to create income opportunities.
If the left could build an electoral base by directing public resources to these groups, competition would become a permanent feature of Paraguayan politics, and public-sector modernization and land reform would be on the table,
cutting
to the heart of elite political power.
Clearly, part of the blame lies with voters who don’t want to hear that budget discipline means
cutting
programs that matter to them, and with politicians who tell voters only what they want to hear.
Bush’s tax
cutting
was irresponsible from the start, but became much more so after September 11, 2001.
Crisis management measures undertaken in the Western world are practically
cutting
our countries off from the EU market.
And yet, in the end, Greece had little choice but to restructure its debt,
cutting
the value of private claims by about 75% relative to their face value (although even this is probably not enough to make the country’s debt burden sustainable).
Ideally, the US should deal with a South Atlantic Treaty Organization, consisting of African states that are allied against terrorism, rather than
cutting
bilateral deals with individual African countries.
They see how countries like Denmark that maintained their own currencies have been forced to raise interest rates to defend their exchange rates when the United States Federal Reserve and the European Central Bank are
cutting
interest rates.
They are instead pursuing fiscal consolidation, following the immense explosion of public deficits and debt in the 2008-09 recession, and have called for
cutting
deficits in half by 2013 and stabilizing the government debt-to-GDP ratio by 2016.
The Aichi targets call for
cutting
by half the rate of loss of the planet’s natural habitats, including forests, by 2020.
Eventually, in the late 1980s, they adopted a different strategy: They restructured the debt, eliminated financial controls, and imposed austerity, raising taxes and
cutting
spending in order to stop printing money.
Whereas the bogey of inflation seems finally to have been laid to rest, another myth must still be challenged – that the Fed and other central banks should save their “bullets” for a rainy day and should therefore resist
cutting
rates.
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