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Similarly, environmentalists boast that households in the United Kingdom have reduced their electricity consumption by almost 10% since 2005.
The poor, no surprise, have reduced their consumption by much more than 10%, whereas the rich have not reduced theirs at all.
The West’s blind support for autocratic Arab rulers has reduced all hope of peaceful change.
An ambitious policy framework that underpins Europe’s energy security and strengthens the single market would also support Europe’s drive towards reduced CO2 emissions and low-carbon prosperity.
But Putinism cannot be reduced to sheer lust for power.
Political peace was also preserved through social policies that reduced organized conflict.
The fiscal compact had been reduced to a shambles even before Germany’s parliament, the Bundestag, approved it later that day.
Instead, it is a full-blown defeat for Germany, linked to its firm denial that German policy has sharply reduced the country’s influence in the EU.
The same initial assumption led Imanishi in 1952 to suggest that animals might have culture, which he reduced to its lowest common denominator: the social rather than genetic transmission of behavior.
As a result, local police forces have been reduced from 20,000 to 11,000, while the national riot police (CRS) have been reinforced.
All of these steps reduced pollution markedly.
Six weeks into the March, Mao’s First Army was reduced from 86,000 to 30,000 troops.
While American households have reduced their debt considerably (mainly through mortgage defaults), household debt in many other countries has continued to grow rapidly.
One example is “shared responsibility” mortgages, in which payments are reduced under certain circumstances, such as when home prices dip below the borrower’s purchase price.
Some 23% of local health departments reported that public health preparedness programs were reduced or even eliminated in 2011, while a further 15% reported similar cuts in 2012.
Its budget has stagnated for most of the past decade, except for years when it was dramatically reduced, such as in 2013.
To take advantage of these opportunities, however, regulatory and political uncertainty must be reduced and public-private partnerships in development finance must be scaled up within a framework that leads to inclusive benefits.
They also narrowed credit spreads on private assets, boosted the stock market, weakened the currency, and reduced real interest rates by increasing inflation expectations.
We know that powerful technological and global market forces have reduced dramatically the number of routine professional and blue-collar jobs, shifted employment options for the middle class toward the non-tradable side of the economy, and channeled growth in national income toward capital and high-end employment, with stagnating income elsewhere.
Entitlement programs would likely be reduced, but not enough to offset a substantial intergenerational burden transfer.
By 1946, the Allies had reduced Germany’s steel output to 75% of its pre-war level.
In other words, if the advanced countries absorb mitigation costs in the short run, while mitigation efforts lower emissions growth in developing countries, the conflict between developing countries’ growth and success in limiting global emissions may be reconciled – or at least substantially reduced.
Growth faltered again, and the International Monetary Fund actually reduced its lending.
Before the Brady Plan was announced, Mexico had accepted a wide-ranging Pact of Economic Solidarity and Growth, which immediately improve investor confidence and reduced sky-high domestic interest rates.
It means that educational inequalities would be reduced not simply by increasing resources, but with an interdisciplinary approach that balances early intervention to support the most vulnerable with greater institutional autonomy.
Pollution would be reduced by 70% as a result of fewer nitrates in the surface water, and greenhouse gases would be cut.
Rural policy in the EU is too often reduced to income guarantees for the farming community.
If the market “misbehaves,” farmers could be reduced to poverty, leading to the neglect of large areas of Europe.
Indeed, Merkel’s room for maneuver will be reduced.
Yet, while globalization isn’t perfect, it has pulled millions out of poverty in developing countries like China and India, created new markets for goods made by poor countries, and reduced prices for rich-country consumers.
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