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We will continue to defy Putin and his efforts to reduce Ukraine to a semi-sovereign buffer state.
The recommendations included increasing affordable transportation to family-planning facilities, expanding access to modern contraception (including emergency contraception), increasing the availability of sex education, and developing strategies to reduce the stigma of abortions.
Another sound short-term policy choice is to use devices like bio-sand filters to reduce the health risks associated with consumption of water contaminated with bacteria and viruses.
Because of the sequestration provision of the Budget Control Act of 2011, the defense budget has been subject to across-the-board cuts that will reduce defense outlays to 3% of GDP in 2021, the lowest share of GDP since before World War II.
So, to reduce the trade deficit, households, businesses, and governments must increase their saving – obviously the preferred solution – or invest less.
Trade barriers erected by foreign governments reduce the ability of US firms to obtain the real income benefits from exporting products made in America.
The growing share of immigrants arriving from developing countries includes many less-educated workers, particularly among women, and that can reduce incomes and the overall employment rate for immigrants.
Germany’s formula for the euro crisis has been to insist on fiscal belt-tightening and structural reforms to reduce future public spending on pensions and wages, make labor markets more flexible, and boost productivity, all in return for emergency loans.
Prisoners of the American DreamCAMBRIDGE – Given worsening economic inequality in the United States, many observers might assume that Americans would want to reduce income differences by instituting a more progressive tax system.
Moreover, a high percentage of conservatives say the best way to reduce inequality is to lower taxes on businesses and people.
Steps can be taken to weaken the Islamic State militarily, reduce the flows of recruits and dollars to it, and shore up some of its potential targets.
To reduce its current-account deficit, the US must either save more or invest less in its economy.
After all, the technology behind it could not only help to reduce systemic risk by creating safeguards shielding the payments system from useful but unpredictable financial activities; it could also play an important role in bolstering much-needed economic growth.
Based partly on the European Environment Agency’s methodology, the study concludes that a redirection of port traffic to the southern European ports would reduce the CO2 emissions by almost 50%.
Inflation in the US or Europe would reduce the purchasing value of the dollar bonds or euro bonds.
Even if there were no increase in inflation rates, a sharp fall in the dollar’s value relative to the euro and other foreign currencies would reduce its purchasing value in buying European and other products.
The only way for China to reduce those risks is to reduce the amount of foreign-currency securities that it owns.
But China cannot reduce the volume of such bonds while it is running a large current-account surplus.
The second reason why China’s political leaders might favor a stronger renminbi is to reduce China’s own domestic inflation rate.
A stronger renminbi would also reduce demand pressure more broadly and more effectively than the current policy of raising interest rates.
Yes, creating a more streamlined bankruptcy process can reduce the decibel level of a bank’s failure, and bankruptcy judges are experts at important restructuring tasks.
In rapid succession, advanced-country central banks also launched quantitative easing (QE), purchasing massive volumes of long-term government securities to reduce their yields.
They also initiated credit easing, or purchases of private assets to reduce the costs of private-sector borrowing.
If banks are driven, for any reason, to reduce lending to the private sector, monetary policy may become less effective, ineffective, or even counter-productive.
And long-term government bond yields are at an historic low, enabling governments to spend more and/or reduce taxes while financing the deficit cheaply.
And, while many people might prefer a status quo approach that speeds up the development of new antibiotics while leaving current consumption unchanged, this solution brings its own set of ethical considerations – such as how and when to reduce the length of clinical trials.
And legal, regulated options for safeguarding savings and accessing credit would reduce reliance on the black market or the informal economy, where financial exploitation flourishes.
Its current bailout schemes only help countries like Greece and Italy to borrow money cheaply in the face of prohibitively high market interest rates, while the schemes’ insistence on more budget-deficit reduction in these countries will reduce European purchasing power further.
Another is that increasingly intelligent machines will reduce the demand for advanced skills, and that the economic advantage of having these skills will decline as a result.
It is also right to advocate measures that could, over time, reduce excess demand by improving conditions in leading source countries.
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