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Conservatives argued for a private sector-driven economy, unfettered markets, low taxes, reduced government spending, and limited public goods.
During the ensuing discussion, several FOMC members argued that the inflation rate might be reduced to less than 2%, but nobody argued that inflation should be pushed higher if a lower, but still positive, rate was achieved.
The resilience of private consumption in the US, the key to the growth gap, is not surprising, given that American households have reduced their debt burden considerably from the peak of more than 90% of GDP reached just before the crisis.
Installing metal detectors in airports in 1973 decreased skyjackings but increased kidnappings; fortifying American embassies reduced the number of attacks on embassies but increased the number of assassinations of diplomatic officials.
Or else they supplied the same output as before at reduced prices.
The 1648 Peace of Westphalia reduced the number of independent units in the Holy Roman Empire from 3,000-4,000 to 300-400.
But everywhere in the Arab world, without exception, reformists have been jailed, killed, or reduced to political impotence.
Of course, the malaise that so many people feel cannot be reduced to one factor.
In the US, for example, slashing labor costs has sharply reduced the share of labor income in GDP.
Last year, a combination of substitution efforts, inventory drawdowns, reduced usage, and illegal Chinese exports meant that up to 8,000 tons of China’s export quotas were left unused.
From 2010 to 2015, as part of the global Millennium Development Goals, the continent reduced the malaria incidence rate (the number of new infections) by 21% and malaria deaths by 31%.
In recent decades, international and local cooperation have reduced Africa’s malaria deaths by 60% , pushed polio to the brink of eradication, and extended the lives of millions of Africans infected with HIV/AIDS.
The rapid rise in saving has reduced consumer spending, slowing the pace of GDP growth in 2009 and in early 2010.
Moreover, aggressive counter-terrorism activities and the separation barrier have decisively reduced cross-border attacks, containing mounting pressure in Palestine as the conflict remains on the back burner.
The fall of the Soviet empire, naturally, reduced Americans' security interest in Europe.
When firms hit by reduced demand contract operations, the space they give up becomes available for use by entrepreneurs with better ways of running the business – or with better businesses.
When firms hit by reduced demand stop hiring for a time, some people who would have joined established firms use their situation to dream up new products or methods and organize startups to develop them.
As history and theory indicate, this fiscal consolidation should happen through reduced future spending growth, especially on transfer payments.
On another level, however, state bureaucracies are very different from private-sector organizations, for they have their own characteristics and objectives, which will be endangered were they are reduced to quantitative standards of performance and efficiency.
Beyond that point, the goals of state action – the substance of ministers’ responsibilities – will still be assessed according to values whose richness and complexity cannot be reduced to the cold one-dimensionality of a spread sheet.
While I believe that the occupation, rather than the reaction to it, is the main cause of our conflict, the unilateral tahdia (“declared calm”) decision by Palestinian militant groups has reduced anti-Israeli attacks mightily, which shows that Palestinians also realize the limits of their military actions.
Indeed, the situation is even more absurd when G7 finance ministers meet: the central bank governors of France, Germany, and Italy still attend these meetings, even though their banks have been reduced to local branches of the European Central Bank, while the president of the ECB - these countries' real monetary authority - is a mere "invited guest."
Latin America sharply reduced its trade barriers and privatized its state-owned firms.
It will become impossible in an EU of 25-30, unless the scope for majority voting is enlarged, and the veto power of individual states reduced.
Witness how otherwise sensible adults are reduced to nervously grinning sycophants when they are granted the privilege of touching an extended royal hand.
But with online markets, savings are generated in many dimensions, and transaction costs are sharply reduced at all stages of the process.
Killing Non-Communicable DiseasesSEATTLE – Over the last 25 years, thanks partly to a coordinated global effort to fight infectious diseases, including malaria, tuberculosis (TB), HIV/AIDS, and polio, childhood mortality rates have been reduced by 50%, and average life expectancy has increased by more than six years.
Since then, the risk of nuclear-armed superpowers triggering Armageddon has been substantially reduced, even if it has not disappeared entirely.
Attacks on installations have often escalated to the point that overall supplies are significantly reduced and less secure.
And libel tourism will be drastically reduced by a new rule that excludes suits from outside the European Union if it cannot be shown that the UK is the most appropriate place to bring the case.
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