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The proposed solutions typically focus on digital technology, which many claim would boost voter participation, by
lowering
the costs of voting.
Making matters worse, national and European leaders have allowed – even encouraged – citizens to believe that integration is inevitable,
lowering
the stakes for European elections.
Such a system would trigger entrepreneurial searches for low-cost mitigation opportunities in developing countries, because rich countries would want to pay less by
lowering
emissions abroad.
Congressional Republicans say they want revenue-neutral, efficiency-enhancing tax reform, which is properly defined as
lowering
marginal tax rates but simultaneously eliminating distortionary deductions, thereby keeping revenues and the budget deficit stable.
They cannot boost economic output, because they are conditional upon recipient countries’ continued pursuit of internal devaluation
(lowering
domestic wages and prices).
That does not stop industry bodies from demanding that the authorities “do something” – especially by
lowering
the value of the rupee.
Lowering
the subsidy for diesel fuel was politically difficult, but will reduce both the fiscal deficit and excessive use of diesel products.
This alternative approach can empower many more people to seek successful routes to prosperity by
lowering
the perils and risks involved in the search – in the same way that maps empower people to get to where they want to go with much more information than they would otherwise have.
This acceptance of collective responsibility should come with abandoning US veto power in the IMF by
lowering
required voting majorities, as well as abandoning Europe’s prerogative of appointing the Managing Director.
The United Nations Millennium Development Goals set ambitious targets for
lowering
poverty, improving health and nutrition, expanding education, increasing gender equality, and ensuring environmental sustainability.
By
lowering
the costs and risks of attack, these technological innovations make military action more likely.
Here’s why: macroeconomic easing, by
lowering
interest rates or otherwise pumping money into the economy, aims to increase economic activity.
A second view is that households are scared and saving too much – they need to be pushed into consuming by
lowering
the returns to savings.
To be sure, under such a system, countries would still compete for investment and corporate operations by
lowering
their corporate-tax rates.
Early this year, the State Council, China’s cabinet, made
lowering
funding costs for businesses, especially small and medium-size enterprises (SMEs), a top priority.
The risk premium is falling, pushing stock prices higher and
lowering
yields on long-term bonds.
The Federal Reserve Board's current monetary policy reflects this ambiguity: it is neither
lowering
nor raising interest rates.
Merely
lowering
interest rates did not, and will not, lead firms to invest more in these sectors.
Specifically, it should shift the intermediate target of monetary policy from expanding the money supply to
lowering
the benchmark interest rate.
Lowering
the level of black particles in the atmosphere would benefit both human health and the climate.
Common-sense policy reforms that ought to be adopted for their own sake, like the Dutch disability and welfare reforms, will provide a second dividend by
lowering
the dependency ratio.
Lowering
entrenchment levels, rather than trading on them, continues to offer opportunities for substantial returns to firms’ shareholders.
My students worry that such trends may continue, reducing job security,
lowering
rates of pay, and even eliminating some of the jobs altogether.
As central banks attempt to combat these pressures by
lowering
interest rates, they are inadvertently causing releveraging (an unsustainable growth pattern), elevated asset prices (with some risk of a downward correction, given slow growth), and devaluations (which merely move demand around the global economy, without increasing it).
Old EU members also have a collective Kyoto target of
lowering
their CO2 emissions by 8% by 2010, but they are projected to achieve a mere 4.6% reduction.
There are plenty of reasons to object to recent US fiscal policy, even if
lowering
the corporate-tax rate made sense (albeit not by the amount enacted).
Similarly, global investment has collapsed since the 2008 financial crisis (though not in China),
lowering
potential growth.
Both regional groupings have, by
lowering
trade barriers, delivered a real catalyst to economic growth.
And the housing market has improved, with construction
lowering
unemployment.
Before the recent Italian election, financial markets showed signs of optimism, encouraged by the European Central Bank’s policy of guaranteeing eurozone members’ sovereign debt, expanding its balance sheet, and
lowering
interest rates.
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