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For example, the latest IPCC estimates are that Chinese GNP could be reduced by between 4% and 13% by about the year 2,020.
Credit growth has already fallen close to zero in many countries and is contracting in many others as debts levels are reduced for households and companies.
Ironically, the fear of ‘instability’ to Germany’s east - which nourished German support for EU enlargement - has been reduced by Poland, the Czech Republic and Hungary joining NATO.
Export restrictions in producing countries and price controls in importing countries both serve to exacerbate the magnitude of the world price upswing, owing to the artificially reduced quantity that is still internationally traded.
America's military presence in the region could be reduced, but it could be beefed up again if Iraq balks.
It simply means that such “renationalization” would carry enormous costs, in the form of substantially reduced productivity and significantly lower output.
We are still a few years away from clinical trials that explore the possible link between vitamin D supplements, higher vitamin D levels, and reduced risk of disease.
Over the past 100 years, Brazil has reduced the Atlantic Forest by more than 90%, and cleared 50% of the Cerrado and almost 20% of the Amazon.
During past economic downturns, labor unions in Europe negotiated a reduced workweek or more vacation time with no reduction in wages.
This has kept short- and long-term interest rates low (and even negative in some cases, such as Europe and Japan), reduced the volatility of bond markets, and lifted many asset prices (including equities, real estate, and fixed-income private- and public-sector bonds).
But, with new regulations punishing such trading (via higher capital charges), banks and other financial institutions have reduced their market-making activity.
In fact, those wishing to exploit shale deposits are receiving shiny new subsidies of their own, along with other benefits: a guaranteed price through Plan Gas for unconventional gas, reduced regional government fees per unit of gas extracted, and an agreement with the main trade unions that lowers workforce costs.
Coca crops in Latin America need to be replaced with agricultural crops, and cocaine use in affluent Europe must be reduced.
And countries like Ireland, Portugal, and Spain have, through hard and painful work, reduced their vulnerability to contagion from nearby crises.
Indeed, we showed that aggressive conservation actions have reduced bird extinction rates over the last few decades to about 25 E/MSY – still very high, but down sharply from the 100 E/MSY projected were conservation actions not in place.
This solution limits the risk of contagion and the potential losses that financial institutions would bear if the value of debt principal were reduced.
Bank bonds could also be reduced and converted into equity, which would both avert a government takeover of banks and prevent socialization of bank losses from causing a sovereign debt crisis.
The Baltic countries were brutally brought back into the Soviet fold, and Poland and others were reduced to satellite states.
In that time, the budget deficit was reduced 5 fold, and is now only about 1% of GDP, with unemployment dropping from 23% to 15%.
But shrinking snow and ice cover is itself a result of warming, so reduced reflection of solar rays is not the primary cause of warming.
One possible explanation for this tendency, proposed by Schroeder and Powell, is that female leaders can be viewed as direct threats to the interests of the generals, because women are more likely to favor, say, reduced military spending and less pugnacious policies.
If properly designed, they can benefit their members, especially if combined with reduced trade barriers for all trading partners.
If Europe could show – in the worst possible scenario of sovereign default – how such a process might operate, uncertainty would be reduced and markets would be reassured.
The reduced deficits would restore confidence, which would restore investment – and thus growth.
Even as open warfare is reduced, stealth warfare intensifies and spreads.
Harm reduction works everywhere, and the main financial benefactors are the countries themselves, which see reduced spread of HIV, drops in crime, and people returning to work.
Moreover, growing urbanization and other non-agricultural uses of land have reduced acreage available for food production, while agricultural land is increasingly used to produce commodities other than food, such as bio-fuels.
But even if tariffs and quotas are progressively reduced, trade flows may remain low if other trade costs remain high.
The next step is to define measurable targets, such as better lives for slum dwellers or reduced deforestation.
In fact, it is the rapid acceleration of economic growth in the major emerging countries that has reduced poverty, not only directly, through jobs and higher incomes, but also by generating the revenues governments need to undertake the public-health, education, and other programs that sustain poverty reduction – and growth – in the long term.
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