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How do we weigh improved health and reduced mortality rates for hundreds of thousands of people against the serious consequences of global warming?
On the contrary, sulfur emissions have been reduced over the last few decades in both Europe and North America, owing to a desire to promote health and counter acidification; and China, too, seems to be taking measures to reduce sulfur emissions and improve the country’s terrible air quality.
Fortunately, inequalities can often be reduced considerably without spending much money.
In 2015, I asserted that the developed world should be able to accept at least a million refugees annually; later I reduced that global figure to 500,000, of which I suggested Europe could take 300,000.
Unfortunately, the EU has not adopted my ideas, and the toxic political atmosphere created by Hungary (and Poland) has reduced Europe’s capacity to receive and integrate refugees.
Canada reduced spending by over 8% of GDP in the 1990’s, and the United States reduced non-military spending by 5% of GDP beginning in the mid-1980’s – a trend sustained by center-right and center-left governments alike.
Today’s “new classical economics” abstracted from the problem of uncertainty by assuming that it could be reduced to measurable (or hedgeable) risk.
The Americans are happy that India’s pesky left, reduced to a paltry 24 seats, has been all but eliminated from national government.
As for the threat from the right, anyone hoping for peace in the region and reduced tensions within India between religious communities is relieved by the defeat of the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
Health-related discoveries and advances, for example, have brought massive societal benefits since World War II: increased longevity and reduced child mortality and morbidity, not just higher productivity and GDP.
If an agreement is reached, existing sanctions can be reduced; if Iran’s leaders refuse to budge, new sanctions could be introduced.
A de-carbonization program that cuts across all the major areas of energy use, combined with reduced consumption of animal products, would create substantial benefits for human health and welfare.
Americans have few choices but to discover a form of modesty appropriate to the country's reduced status in the eyes of the world.
After World War II, many countries with parliamentary systems reduced the likelihood of such instability by adopting the so-called “constructive vote of no confidence.”
To prevent this, Portugal, Poland, Lithuania, Slovenia, and recently Croatia and Ukraine reduced the constitutional powers of the directly elected president and increased the parliament’s powers.
Carbon dioxide emissions must be taxed and reduced.
Carter, the incumbent president, was reduced to chasing his defeated challenger, Edward M. Kennedy, around the stage in pursuit of the traditional photo of former rivals with arms raised and hands clasped.
Whatever is paid out in pensions would be at least partly offset by reduced public-sector wage costs.
Liberal democracy cannot be reduced to a popularity contest.
This would have discouraged undue investment in some sectors, reduced non-performing loans, and contained excessive leverage in the corporate sector, while avoiding the mispricing of commodities.
These measures included reduced public spending and the privatization of public goods, lower taxes, financial deregulation, and free-trade agreements.
That dynamic characterized the 30 years or so after World War II: growth rates were relatively high across a wide range of countries; their benefits were broadly shared within countries; and the rise of developing countries reduced global inequality.
The 1996 and 1997 five-power pacts, which the two countries signed with the three Central Asian countries of Kazahkstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Tajikistan, which introduced confidence-building measures and reduced troops along the common borders, amount in effect to a regional series of "non-aggression pacts."
Americans’ knowledge of what happens abroad is limited, and often reduced to a cartoon-strip view of the rest of the world.
Many such stocks, such as Newfoundland cod, which supported huge fisheries for centuries, have been reduced to a tiny proportion of their former levels.
According to Santa Deverajan, the director of the World Bank's World Development Report 2004 , some studies showed that the program could have reduced poverty by as much as 64%.
"If they had just given it out equally to the entire Mexican population," Deverajan says, "it would have reduced poverty by 13%."
His government can claim to have reduced poverty from 35% to 22% of the population, and also to have maintained a trend towards lower inequality, with the Gini coefficient – a 0-1 scale of wealth concentration – declining from 0.583 in 2003 to 0.548 in 2008.
Fiscal austerity helped to reverse the rising trend in public debt, and then reduced it to more manageable levels (debt nonetheless remains comparatively high).
These measures, which still pale in comparison to what is granted to conventional fossil fuels, will be reduced over time as economies of scale are realized and costs fall.
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