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To help young girls avoid this choice, and to reduce the presence of minors and young girls in factories, requires greater emphasis on poverty reduction in rural areas.
Politicians’ desire to keep interest rates low in order to reduce unemployment is often in tension with the Fed’s concern to act in a timely manner to maintain price stability.
And in recent years, the EU has at least started to reduce the market support prices of some foods, while compensating farmers by making direct income supplement payments instead.
These suggestions are all indicative of central bankers’ instinctual desire to reduce complex decision-making to simple rules.
CANBERRA – Last year, North Korea’s Kim Jong-un and US President Donald Trump were hurling kindergarten insults at each other – “Rocket Man is on a suicide mission,” said Trump of Kim; “mentally deranged US dotard,” Kim retorted – while threatening to reduce East Asia to a post-atomic wasteland.
Cutting back on high-return investments (like education, infrastructure, and technology) just to reduce the deficit is truly foolish, but especially so in the case of a country like Australia, whose debt is so low.
The reforms helped to reduce the jobless rate, but at the cost of stagnant inflation-adjusted wages and widespread personal financial stress.
As Pinelopi Goldberg and Nina Pavcnik reported in 2007, the expectation that trade would reduce inequality in the countries with the most unskilled workers, because their services are in greater demand in an integrated world market, has not been borne out.
With respect to the last of these issues, the EU urgently needs to create a true energy union to reduce its dependence on outside, increasingly hostile countries, not least Russia.
Prevention programs that promote healthier diets and exercise can lower the prevalence of type 2 diabetes and reduce complications for those who have the disease.
For example, economists predict that higher prices for a good will reduce demand for it.
Unfortunately, with a large export sector that employs scores of millions of workers, this dependence has become structural, which implies that to reduce China’s trade dependency and trade surplus is much more than a matter of adjusting macroeconomic policy.
Continued retaliation from China of the sort Lou has proposed would accelerate the country’s economic decoupling from the US, with both countries creating safeguards that reduce their dependence on each other.
His first proposed budget would slash funding for social programs, efforts to reduce drug use and trafficking, the arts, climate science, medical research, education, Meals on Wheels (food delivery for the elderly), financial assistance for low-income college students, the Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children, and much else.
Government can also reduce corruption by limiting the reach of its activities.
Initially, the most appealing argument for his plan was that it would provide greater security to creditors, and thus reduce interest rates, from the 6% at which the states financed their debt to 4%.
Finally, a regional forum should be established to regulate better the deployment of military force, including confidence-building measures to reduce the risk of incidents and to help manage them if they occur.
Europe needs working-age people to reduce the burden of a burgeoning elderly population, so relaxing immigration restrictions could help.
Likewise, efforts to help developing countries create jobs and improve quality of life will reduce irregular migration and help avert its social costs.
Third, Trump would reduce the highest rate for personal income tax from 39.6% to 33%.
They propose large specific tax cuts, without specific spending cuts, and yet claim they will reduce the deficit.
Denser cities use land more efficiently, reduce the need for private cars, and increase the quality of life by making space for parks and nature.
Likewise, tightly integrated mass-transit systems reduce greenhouse-gas emissions dramatically.
Indeed, wherever possible, we should try to reduce the need to travel at all.
We can also encourage households to consume less energy, and companies to reduce the amount of energy that they waste.
This type of single accounting would reduce the central bank’s equity capital, unless it realized (sold) valuation reserves on its balance sheet.
Argentina’s per capita income has risen, albeit slowly, during this period, but the country was never far from a full-blown macroeconomic crisis that could reduce household incomes sharply.
According to Waszczykowski, Poland not only “must drastically reduce [its] level of trust in the EU,” but “must also begin to pursue a negative policy,” by “blocking other initiatives or playing a very aggressive game.”
Reviving conservation, management, and distribution efforts could reduce water consumption and increase efficiency, but these measures need to be combined with radical reforms to speed the transition away from oil dependence to a zero-carbon renewable-energy infrastructure.
Attempting to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions through nuclear energy, thereby fueling the dangers of the ultimate global incendiary – nuclear war – could be the most tragic of all miscalculations.
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