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Any viable solution requires that the following conditions be satisfied:- drug companies – whether patent holders or generic drug producers – must provide drugs to poor countries at prices near to production costs;- drug prices in rich countries must remain higher through patent protection to preserve incentives for innovation;- rich and poor markets must be separated, so that cheap drugs from poor countries are not smuggled into rich countries (or are not allowed in legally through parallel-market imports);- governments in rich countries must provide substantial assistance to poor countries, so that the poor – who are too poor to afford these drugs even at reduced prices – can make use of them.
This fund would be aimed not only at poor countries, but at some middle income countries like South Africa where diseases like AIDS are so rampant that the volume of drugs needed to combat disease cannot be purchased even at reduced prices.
Canada has staged a substantial retreat from the welfare state’s worst excesses, as center-left and center-right governments alike reduced the share of government spending as a proportion of GDP by eight percentage points in recent years.
Similarly, Guyana will have its debt reduced by more than 8% of GDP.
Can you imagine anyone trying to censure Germany because it reduced its budget surplus by .4% of GDP?
If such a toll could be substantially reduced at moderate cost, the investment would be worthwhile.
While emerging markets have reduced their dollar debts, they have not done so sufficiently to reassure markets.
A profession famed for summoning ambassadors for a discreet dressing-down has been reduced to upbraiding companies on Twitter.
Taken together, these developments have contributed to lower energy prices, and reduced the strength of OPEC.
The internal recession that followed the bailout was deep and long and left the ordinary Mexican citizen with a sharply reduced income facing higher prices for goods and services.
The EU’s current €100,000 threshold could be reduced to half, or even less.
Over the last 12 years, her Worker’s Party (PT) has delivered the country’s strongest per capita GDP growth in more than three decades; reduced income inequality with an extensive system of social transfers that reaches one-third of Brazilian households; and reduced formal unemployment to a record-low 4.5%.
Brazil needs a new growth model, based on four key elements: tighter fiscal policy, looser monetary policy, a reduced role for state-owned banks in credit provision, and measures to lower Brazil’s astronomical private lending costs.
As of 2011, only Tanzania had achieved this goal, while 11 countries actually reduced their relative contributions, and the remaining nine signatories kept spending stagnant.
For almost $20 trillion, temperatures by the end of the century will be reduced by a negligible 0.05ºC.
Foreign investors might fear that the government could adopt policies that reduced the real value of their holdings.
Reducing the annual deficit by 1.7% of GDP by any combination of reduced spending and higher revenue would, if begun in 2017, prevent an increase from the current 75% debt-to-GDP ratio.
Poor air quality is now costing India at least 1% of GDP every year in respiratory diseases, reduced productivity, and increased hospitalization, and may be reducing Indians’ lifespans by three years.
It has neither reduced the cost of space access nor made space flight safe and routine, as promised.
The diplomatic Europe, incarnated by EU founding father Jean Monnet, took big, sensitive questions out of the sphere of popular politics and reduced them to manageable technical issues that diplomats could address through bureaucratic compromises behind closed doors.
This has dramatically reduced the cost of borrowing for the Italian government.
Indeed, since the recession’s onset, state and local governments have cut nearly 600,000 jobs and reduced spending for infrastructure projects by 20%.
Instead of commanding much of northern Sri Lanka, they are now confined to a shrinking pocket, and are reduced to mindless military stunts such as the recent bombing by light aircraft of the tax administration building in the capital, Colombo.
The 29 members of parliament who support a reduced number of constituencies were unable to agree with the government on a new number.
There are reduced market-making and warehousing activities by broker-dealers.
Syrians suffered from extreme repression, with people denied the right to assemble or even to discuss issues publicly, and the country was reduced to a political desert.
The resulting fall in wealth has reduced consumer spending, while the decline in homeowners’ equity prevents borrowing to finance any increase.
Though private finance may be more expensive than tax-advantaged public finance, over a project’s entire life, a PPP can benefit its government partner in numerous ways: through innovation; reduced design, construction, and lifetime maintenance costs; and risk mitigation.
That skepticism reflects a variety of recent news indicating weak output in parts of the Chinese economy – for example, headlines about reduced industrial production, declines in manufacturing exports, and shutdowns in particular industries.
So if the income level in the year 2,100 were to be reduced by 1.5% to 2.0% due to global warming, it would be only about 4.3 times higher than now.
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