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Smart TaxesATHENS/BERLIN – Governments throughout the European Union and around the world confront a seeming Catch-22: the millstone of national debt around their necks has required them to reduce deficits through spending cuts and tax increases.
For example, an increase in direct taxes, such as income tax, can reduce consumption by twice as much as energy and carbon taxes that raise the same amount of revenue.
But India does not have the access to inexpensive natural gas, which has allowed the US to reduce its carbon dioxide emissions in recent years.
India has expressed a willingness to reduce emissions, but on the condition that developed countries do their share, to set an example.
At a recent news conference with French President Emmanuel Macron, Modi vowed to “continue working” to reduce emissions, “above and beyond the Paris accord.”
Many households still need to reduce their debt further and will be hit with higher interest rates as they attempt to do so.
If we apply to catastrophic risks the same prudent analysis that leads us to buy insurance – multiplying probability by consequences – we would surely prioritize measures to reduce this kind of extreme risk.
The WHO estimates that increased use of PrEP could reduce HIV infections by up to 25% over the next decade among men who have sex with men (this category includes anyone with elevated risk, not just those who identify as gay).
US President Donald Trump’s trade war will neither reduce America’s trade deficit nor turn back the technological clock on China.
Encouraging banks to turn loans kept on their books into securities also helped reduce the overall level of caution in the extension of credit.
Granting special autonomy to the two most strife-ridden provinces - Aceh and Papua (Irian Jaya) - may also reduce tension between national and local military commanders.
And the Port of Hamburg has a digital system to reduce water, rail, and ground traffic congestion.
Greece would also have to restructure and reduce its public debt again.
America's membership in a web of multilateral institutions ranging from the UN to NATO may reduce US autonomy, but seen in the light of a constitutional bargain, the multilateral ingredient of America's current preeminence is a key to its longevity, because it reduces the incentives for constructing alliances against the US.
And the rich world does have a moral obligation to move first and faster – with policies, technologies, and finance – to reduce the emissions that cause global warming.
We need the industrialized countries and the giants of the developing world to redouble their efforts to reduce their emissions, so that global warming can be limited to 1.5 degrees.
Their net effect will be to raise consumption as a share of GDP and to reduce the national saving rate.
A stronger renminbi would reduce the import bill, including prices for oil and other production inputs, while making Chinese goods more expensive for foreign buyers and foreign goods more attractive to Chinese consumers.
The Americans are eager for China to reduce its surplus and allow its currency to appreciate more rapidly.
Indeed, when radical innovations are first rolled out, their immediate effect is to reduce, not raise, productivity.
By cutting out the middleman, these online platforms empower individuals, reduce transaction costs, and create a more inclusive economy.
Reduce the duty on cars imported from the US, the Trump administration will say, and your steel exports will be spared.
Perhaps eliminating the occasions on which this question is asked for no good reason would not only make life easier for those who can’t be squeezed into strict categories, but would also help to reduce inequality for women.
First, David Ignatius of The Washington Post reported, on the basis of conversations with senior US officials, that agreement had already been reached on a number of steps Pakistan would take to reduce its dependence on nuclear weapons for deterrence.
The US believed that shifting Pakistani leaders’ attention from nuclear-weapons development to power-plant construction would, in addition to bolstering efforts to close the energy gap, limit Pakistan’s dependence on China for nuclear technology and reduce the risk of an immensely destructive war in South Asia.
This will produce high variance in performance across countries and probably reduce the average pace of convergence.
Likewise, in order to reduce financial-sector risks (including excessive leverage and shadow banking), regulation of banking and insurance have been consolidated under the new China Banking and Insurance Regulatory Commission.
Blurring the line between the private and the state-owned sectors would, over time, reduce the latter’s privileged access to – and overuse of – bank financing, leading to the expansion of corporate bond markets.
If China must reduce its trade surplus with the US, it must also reduce its trade deficits with the East Asian economies.
In any case, China should also reduce costly foreign liabilities.
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