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Globalization – the breaking down of national boundaries and the integration of economies across continents – has resulted in burgeoning demands on governments at the same time that their ability to provide answers has been reduced.
Indeed, Iran’s nuclear aspirations, one of the most pressing issues of our time, may well be reduced to whether the US should support Israel in the event that its government takes military action.
Other foreign-policy issues cry out for serious discussion and debate: addressing absolute poverty and pandemics in the global South; strengthening global governance, including undermanned and outmoded United Nations structures; international cooperation on the rising number of natural disasters; and rethinking Afghanistan/Pakistan with the understanding that Pakistan is far larger and one angry mob away from a loose nuke – and therefore should not be reduced to the role of a supporting actor in Afghanistan’s travails.
If the economy is slowing, if there is excess capacity, and if inflation is low, interest rates are reduced; if the economy is strong, if excess capacity is limited, and if inflationary pressures are growing, interest rates are raised.
French Premier Jospin quietly liberalized the French labor market by allowing for more part-time work, increased privatization, and promoted a more globally competitive financial system with reduced governmental control.
Offering workers legal redress has turned their attention temporarily from the streets to mediation and may well have reduced the number of street demonstrations.
The goal was not increased supplies or reduced prices for Americans, but stripping Saddam of his power and, ultimately, establishing and solidifying a new Iraqi government.
If all power plants had such efficiency-levels, global power plant CO2-emissions could be reduced by 30%.
Greenhouse gasses must also be reduced in these sectors – in this quest the energy company can be a strategic partner.
The law – like the economy – has served as a stand-in for politics for too long, embodying the idea that, with no alternative to liberal democracy and free markets, politics can be reduced to technocracy.
To be sure, much more aggressive policy action (massive and unconventional monetary easing, larger fiscal-stimulus packages, bailouts of financial firms, individual mortgage-debt relief, and increased financial support for troubled emerging markets) in many countries in the last few months has reduced the risk of a near depression.
If benefits are not reduced, the gap between receipts and expenditures will increase.
The usability of available information is further reduced by the combined effects of innocuous-seeming principles that are popular in informal discussions.
Yes, the chances of an immediate repeat of the acute financial meltdown of 2008 are much reduced by the fact that most investors, regulators, consumers, and even politicians will remember their financial near-death experience for quite some time.
Hitler’s visual image could be reduced to a greasy cowlick and a toothbrush moustache.
The CFA franc was sharply devalued in 1994, and outstanding debts& were& reduced.
At the time, that target seemed achievable; during the previous 15 years, the number of undernourished people on the planet had been reduced by half, a staggering achievement attributed largely to international investment in agricultural and economic infrastructure.
Assessing the extent to which racism and sexism have actually been reduced is a daunting task.
The economic fundamentals are far from stable, while the reduced financial tension is the fortunate outcome of an expectation game.
One explanation of Scandinavia’s strong performance is Sweden’s courageous product market liberalization, the reduced generosity of Denmark’s wage replacement system and the Nokia miracle in Finland.
It reduced the ability of businesses and banks to service their debt, and might trigger a chain of big bankruptcies that would destroy confidence in the financial system, providing further incentives to hoard.
Hence the Keynesian solution: use monetary policy (lower interest rates) and fiscal policy (expanded government spending and reduced taxes) to keep the economy from ever approaching the precipice where deflation becomes possible.
This damage will become worse, with risks becoming unmanageable if emissions of greenhouse gases are not reduced to net zero levels between 2055 and 2070.
And, though unconventional measures have reduced financial instability, their effectiveness in countering widespread deflationary pressures or restoring growth remains dubious.
Often reduced to anti-scientific propaganda, these ideas are diffused from non-scientific university departments to students, high school teachers, and ultimately to young children.
Fourth, the spirit of the Maastricht rule on public debt would be reinforced, and moral hazard would be reduced.
Indeed, deficit cuts would court a reprise of 1937, when Franklin D. Roosevelt prematurely reduced the New Deal stimulus and thereby threw the United States back into recession.
While measures like improved early-warning systems have reduced disaster-related mortality rates, economic losses continue to soar, as investors, struggling to understand underlying risk factors, set aside common sense in favor of short-term expediency in land use and construction.
Third, although curtailing the state's role in allocating goods and services that can be provided more efficiently by markets may reduce corruption, it is unrealistic to think that the number of fields in which the state deploys its regulatory powers can be reduced greatly.
It enhanced competition, resulting in reduced prices and new services.
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