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Critics have complained that it would reduce liquidity in important markets, such as those for non-US sovereign debt.
But if the best way to reduce sovereign over-indebtedness is to achieve higher nominal GDP growth (the combination of real growth and inflation), cutting investment – a key ingredient in a pro-growth-strategy – is not a sound approach.
These barriers remain largely because further liberalization would redistribute jobs, income, and wealth in ways that governments fear would reduce their chances of remaining in power – and their own wealth in countries where corruption is rife.
Eliminating subsidies and trade barriers would mean that resources could be used more efficiently, so there would be more scope to reduce inequality and poverty, social tensions, environmental degradation, malnutrition, and disease.
Here are some ways to reduce the overhang.
What We Owe EgyptCAMBRIDGE – The question that still underlies much thinking about economic development is this: What can we do to kick-start economic growth and reduce poverty around the world?
Indeed, protectionism can do nothing to reduce America's trade deficit and stanch domestic unemployment.
They would reduce America’s corporate-tax rate – the highest in the OECD – to a far more competitive level.
Far more important to the achievement of price stability has been the advent of the modern independent central bank, a device that has helped dramatically reduce inflation levels worldwide.
When an economy is normalizing, it is reasonable to reduce expansionary measures, such as those introduced after the crisis of 2008.
Companies will be able to reduce their headcount and production costs while improving customer service, which, like Uberization, will affect the wage-setting process.
They can set targets for recruitment and retention levels; initiate affirmative searches to meet those targets; introduce mentorship programs and diversity training to attract, retain, and promote women; and establish transparent salary bands to help track and reduce gender pay gaps.
And no single measure would do more to reduce global oil consumption than a sharp increase in the tax on gasoline in the country that consumes more of it than any other: the US.
Even if everyone accepted the need to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions, that would not resolve the plight of workers who can barely make ends meet.
With corporate-tax revenue currently equal to 2% of GDP, the proposed rate cut would reduce revenue by about 1% of GDP, or $190 billion a year in today’s economy.
This would reduce the risk caused by high-debt ratios and put debt and equity on an equal footing.
Although it looks like this would reduce imports and increase exports, that will not happen.
Startups anywhere contribute to job creation, competitiveness, higher productivity, and economic growth, while helping to reduce poverty and fight climate change.
When asked if he could trust his Soviet counterparts when they promised to reduce their nuclear capabilities, Reagan famously said that he would “trust, but verify.”
Aside from the Iran negotiations, other arms control cooperation is continuing, including between the US and Russia over the New START treaty to reduce strategic deployments, and over chemical weapons in Syria.
Can the unfolding revolution in genomics (the study not of individual genes but of all genes as an entity) and biotechnology be harnessed to reduce these inequities?
We collectively need to make a positive policy decision to capitalize on the potential of genomics/biotechnology to help reduce inequities in global health.
Taxing fossil fuels to reduce carbon emissions is a sensible part of the solution to climate change, but it is not the only or best way to prevent warming.
Professor Brent Sohngen of Ohio State University points out that forests could be important: including forestry in the control of greenhouse gases could somewhat reduce costs.
Professor Claudia Kemfert of the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW) argues that spending $14 billion to $30 billion to reduce methane would create benefits – from the reduction in warming – between 1.4 and three times higher.
It first achieved massive scale, enabling it to store unordered products at diffuse locations and thereby reduce transport costs.
In Cameroon, some of our organizations have worked with the World Customs Organization to help the customs authority reduce corruption and increase collection of revenues – estimated to be more than $25 million a year.
After peaking at 52.3% in 2008, its gross domestic saving rate has fallen approximately seven percentage points and should continue to decline in the years ahead as China strengthens its long-porous social safety net, encouraging Chinese families to reduce fear-driven precautionary saving.
My colleague, Richard Thaler, along with Cass Sunstein, who currently serves in the Obama administration, wrote a best-selling book, Nudge, in which they suggest a way to reduce our uneasiness with paternalism.
And in 2012, Mexico enacted a climate-change law that aims to reduce emissions by 30% below their business-as-usual level by 2020, and by 50% by 2050.
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