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When demand in Germany and France was quite weak early in the last decade, the ECB reduced interest rates sharply.
And then, when the government reduced the size of the absurdly expensive, but popular, funded pension system (2011-2014), Tusk attempted to compensate voters by pumping all additional free resources into family benefits.
Compensating for reduced national autonomy by creating room for democratic action at the European level really would have been a victory for democracy.
Having long since collected the peace dividend, the main protagonists of EDI are still reducing their defense spending: between 1998 and 1999, France, Germany, Italy and the United Kingdom reduced their combined defense expenditure by a further $10 billion dollars.
Gabriel Kreindler of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has shown that while the policy reduced congestion slightly, drivers circumvented the rule by switching to other vehicles.
Three years later, when Betty reduced her paid employment in order to develop Mental Health First Aid training, we were finally able to launch the course.
Like high-level managers at publicly traded private companies, policymakers who made bad decisions should face clawbacks, in the form of reduced pensions.
For example, a 2010 study in Vietnam found that commercial farming of the Southeast Asian porcupine, a popular meat source, had not dramatically reduced the hunting of wild porcupines.
No such favor was shown Russia, which was reduced to economic/political meltdown by year’s end.
The collapse of Russia’s GDP in dollar terms (from about $430 billion to less than $130 billion) as a result of 1998's ruble devaluation, however, left Russia unable to make even these reduced payments.
Recent success in countries such as Ethiopia and Rwanda in expanding access to impregnated bed nets and slashing malaria rates is building confidence that the disease can be dramatically reduced around the world and, in some areas, eliminated entirely.
Three things:First, we know that giving birth for the first time when younger carries a cost in increased infant mortality, but modern medicine and hygiene have strikingly reduced infant mortality, reducing the cost of younger age at first birth.
Only a handful of countries have developed nuclear weapons outside of the NPT, and the CTBT has reduced the number of nuclear tests from an average of 500 per decade to a mere trickle.
Illness and deaths from malaria can be reduced sharply by using insecticide-treated bed nets to stop the mosquitoes that transmit malaria, and by effective medicines when the illness strikes.
When child mortality is reduced, poor families choose to have fewer children, because they are more confident that their children will survive to adulthood.
Chemical inhibition of the PARP1 protein results in reduced occurrence of these single-strand break repairs.
The ongoing controversy has drawn attention to the way in which a constitutional position has been reduced to serving the political interests of India’s ruling party.
It was as if the RBI had been reduced to a puppet, with the BJP government pulling its strings.
The silence of the RBI’s governor, Urjit Patel, reduced him to a lamb.
Even the Indian parliament – the “temple of democracy” – has seen its work reduced to a farce, as BJP allies and supporters purposely brought the budget session of the Lok Sabha (the lower house) to a standstill in April 2018.
South Korea’s Public and Private Infrastructure Investment Management Center has reduced infrastructure spending by 35%; today, officials reject 46% of the proposed projects they review, compared to 3% previously.
And one Scandinavian road authority reduced overall spending by 15% by updating design standards, adopting lean construction techniques, and taking advantage of bundled and international sourcing.
The UK’s intelligent transport system on the M42 motorway has reduced journey times by 25%, accidents by 50%, pollution by 10%, and fuel consumption by 4%.
In several countries, debt-financed housing booms have left households and companies over-leveraged; and governments have reduced deficits to contain their own debt.
Trends in these factors might make reduced trade intensity not only inevitable but desirable.
With industrial tariffs already dramatically reduced most potential benefits of trade liberalization have already been grasped.
But while the potential global benefits of trade liberalization have declined, reduced trade intensity might still impede economic development in some countries.
Almost everyone knows that the dangers of nuclear proliferation can be reduced, and eventually resolved, only through concerted action by the international community.
The creation of these new departments has reduced the once-proud British Foreign Office to something of a think tank on international affairs, responsible for maintaining Britain’s public and trading relations around the world until things settle down again.
In all of these cities, CO2 emissions declined sharply and congestion was significantly reduced, with Singapore experiencing an immediate 45% drop in traffic.
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