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Yet as the experience of Belgium and Japan shows, high government debt can be reduced only through sustained economic growth.
The impact is multiplied through reduced spending on local goods and services, which means workers and employers across the entire local economy feel the hit.
Far more importantly, under the TPP, nine other Pacific Rim countries (like Vietnam) would have reduced major barriers to US exports.
If such criminal activity is to be stopped, the despair found in poor countries must be reduced.
But going to war to impede Iran’s nuclear ambitions, and containing the subsequent chaos – including oil-price spikes, increased regional volatility, and reduced American strategic flexibility – would be far more costly.
Currency devaluation, reduced labor costs, and export stimulus played an important part in any instances of growth (for example, the touted stabilizations of Denmark and Ireland in the 1980’s).
Most countries that reduced their corporate-tax rates have followed this path, while the US has done the opposite.
In fact, while the rise of China and other emerging economies has reduced inequality among countries, domestic inequality has risen almost everywhere.
This is what German legislators concocted: workers who have been with a firm for more than 6 months can demand reduced hours.
Suddenly, he has reduced himself to KGB President, jeopardizing the very political stability he sought to guarantee.
Studies have shown that there is a significant positive association between a higher intake of fruits and vegetables and reduced risk of chronic disease.
In the United States, the Federal Reserve has lowered its benchmark interest rate ten times since August 2007, from 5.25% to a zone between zero and 0.25%, and has reduced the discount rate 12 times (by a total of 550 basis points since June 2006), to 0.75%.
Decontamination work leads to a huge amount of waste, which needs to be managed – collected, transported, sorted, stored, reduced in volume, prepared for disposal, and, eventually, placed in permanent disposal facilities – at the local, regional, and national levels.
Religiosity did not predict participation, while religious intolerance reduced participation.
While my country, Rwanda, has reduced child mortality by 70% over the past decade, the rate of stunting remains high, with 44% of children under the age of five chronically malnourished.
It is more difficult to deal with than inflation, in part for the technical reason that interest rates can be reduced only to zero.
From 2007 to October 2009, the United States lost nearly eight million jobs, which reduced the employment-population ratio from 63% to 58.5%.
When international engagement with Africa is confined to the silo of development, the continent is effectively reduced to a set of problems for external actors to solve.
The resulting vulnerability was highlighted by the Russian reduction of gas supplies to Ukraine in January, which resulted in reduced flows to central and western Europe.
A fringe of rapid traders may well have greatly reduced the mean duration of stock holding, but, for the bulk of traditional American shareholders, the duration did not change.
Although the size of many R&D organizations is bound to be reduced by such reforms, the complexities of managing and maximizing the impact of this external web of relationships will demand new skills and capabilities over and above those of excellent science.
But, while policymakers have helped drive down the price of emissions permits in the ETS by mandating and subsidizing renewable energy, the supply of permits has not been reduced.
Many developing countries now have flexible exchange rates, and, by shifting to domestic sources of borrowing, they have reduced the currency mismatches associated with their liabilities.
Tight budget policy, together with strong economic growth, steadily reduced the deficit and converted it to rising surpluses in 1998, 1999 and 2000.
For several decades after the usurpation of their homeland, Palestinians were reduced to aggregates of refugees, some remaining in the newly-created state of Israel as second-class citizens, with others scattered over the Arab World and far beyond.
But if it is too difficult to restructure and reduce debts when bad luck leads to unsustainable debts, the result is bad for both the debtor and its creditors, who are better off when a reduced debt ratio is serviced than when a debtor defaults.
In other words, in countries where the level of income inequality is high, inequality is reduced less by growth than in countries where inequality is relatively low.
It would also lead to broader economic-policy coordination, particularly with respect to wage-setting, because governments would be compelled to use national legislation and public-sector wage settlements to influence wage policy in such a way that imbalances among euro-zone countries are reduced.
Indeed, the idea that greenhouse-gas emissions should be reduced to zero by 2050 is gaining wider acceptance.
For almost $20 trillion, temperatures by the end of the century will have been reduced by a negligible 0.05ºC.”
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