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And, third, the misuse of antibiotics in agriculture has been reduced more than I would have expected, owing to voluntary efforts by leading food producers and supermarkets.
Unless the risks emanating from high public debt are systematically reduced, eurozone countries will be heavily exposed when the next crisis strikes.
Far from shaping the contours of a new balanced structure of global governance, the EU has been reduced to taking a series of rearguard positions aimed at tempering its own loss of stature.
Each further round of budget cuts has worsened the recession, increased social tension, and further reduced confidence… Neither the IMF nor anybody else would advise any developed country to adopt such masochistic and self-destructive policies….
In modern terms, the “net present value” of the total debt (federal and state) was reduced by about one-half if one were to apply the usual exit yield of 9%.
This does not even take into account social returns, accrued through reduced traffic congestion and cleaner air.
In addition, demographic changes reduced the number of contributors while increasing the demand for services.
This also means much less CO2 reductions in Denmark, where a ton of CO2 is reduced at more than six times the current average cost in the EU.
Over the past decade, overcapacity has reduced annual returns on capital in the country’s coal and steel industries from 17% to 6%.
Rather, the stubborn complexities of the situation are reduced to a stark struggle between absolute power and absolute powerlessness, the archetypal oppressor and archetypal oppressed.
But the current emphasis on nuclear power must be objectively reassessed, and dependence on it thereafter reduced.
As the country regains market confidence, the official funding can be reduced, and eventually the bonds can be sold back to the markets.
In writing to Merkel, he is addressing the leader of a country decimated by Nazi rule – millions dead, an entire society and economy reduced to rubble.
Unable to sustain the current force with reduced aid, the Afghan government will have to try to make it “leaner and meaner.”
The deficit has to be reduced by at least 10 percentage points of GDP (from around 13% of GDP to less than 3% of GDP).
Simply put, children in Iraq have been reduced from human beings worthy of care to tools of production and instruments of violence.
In many places, however, encouraging women to deliver in health facilities, rather than at home, has not resulted in reduced mortality.
To be sure, World War II reduced the unemployment rate in the United States dramatically, from 15% in 1940 to 1% in 1944, and had a similar effect in other countries.
In Morocco, for instance, investment from the Arab oil countries has already significantly reduced Europe’s importance.
As a result, their roaring tax-reform lion will most likely be reduced to a squeaking mouse.
Given that the country's official debt constitutes the bulk of its overall public debt, the government wants it reduced.
But this strategy has not reduced extremist groups’ potency or limited their reach.
Thus, while global warming might have contributed to some droughts, overall it has reduced more drought; but an absence of droughts hardly generates headlines.
Early modern Italian textile workers would find their pay in silver reduced, while their products still commanded a gold price on the international market for luxuries.
This caused interest-rate differentials between various countries to shrink, which generated real-estate booms in the weaker economies and reduced their competitiveness.
With regard to the second problem, the interest rate on rescue packages should be reduced to the rate at which the EU itself can borrow on the market.
Likewise, he reduced the length of presidential terms from seven years to five, but later restored it to seven.
Of course, my reduced cost will be someone else’s reduced revenue – and not just Apple’s.
When things can be made, used, broken/worn out, and recycled closer to home, the need for transport is reduced dramatically.
The burden of reduced consumption to pay for government spending is actually borne by the generation which lends the government the money in the first place.
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