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But cutting jobs weakens final demand further, because it
reduces
labor income and increases inequality.
In many African countries, malaria
reduces
GDP growth by one percentage point per year.
In short, QE3
reduces
the tail risk of an outright economic contraction, but is unlikely to lead to a sustained recovery in an economy that is still enduring a painful deleveraging process.
Yet governments across Europe have clamped down on infrastructure spending for years, giving precedence to fiscal austerity and debt reduction in the misguided belief that government borrowing crowds out private investment and
reduces
growth.
An ECB policy that artificially
reduces
their sovereign borrowing costs would make these steps even more politically difficult.
As a result of these and other problems, the average American secondary-school student receives inadequate preparation in core subjects such as writing, mathematics, and analytical reasoning, which in turn
reduces
college enrollment and completion rates.
Decriminalization of consumption also
reduces
dealers’ power to influence and control consumers’ behavior.
In particular, they noted, a better regulatory system – one that restrains coal-fired power generation, for example –
reduces
the burden that must be placed on the tax system.
In addition to replacing the multi-member-district, single-vote electoral system with a single-member-district, two-round voting system, the amendment
reduces
the number of seats in the Yuan by half.
Indeed, social spending has worsened the problem, because it
reduces
work incentives and thus creates a culture of dependency and alienation from the commercial economy, undermining labor force participation, employability, and employee loyalty.
Lower borrowing and capital investment by firms
reduces
future productivity growth and growth in real incomes.
And it is why research shows that patenting genes actually
reduces
the production of new knowledge about genes: the most important input in the production of new knowledge is prior knowledge, to which patents inhibit access.
Moreover, keeping businesses in the family
reduces
their disruptive potential, even when they do manage to innovate.
This dramatically
reduces
financial-service providers’ costs, and makes their services more convenient and accessible for users – especially low-income users in remote locations.
Second, digital finance
reduces
costs: MGI estimates that it would cost financial-service providers 80-90% less – about $10 per year, compared to the $100 per year it costs today – to offer customers digital accounts than accounts through traditional bank branches.
This
reduces
the willingness of institutional investors to invest in counteracting insider lobbying.
The only way to restore growth without compromising the future is through pension reform that
reduces
future outlays from the state-run system.
But if issuing more taxi medallions
reduces
cab drivers’ earnings, while pharmacists succeed in vetoing pro-competition measures to lower the cost of their services, the taxi drivers will end up worse off and the pharmacists will be enriched, which hardly seems fair.
As I have argued in previous commentaries, and in a recent academic paper written with Michael Troege, requiring banks to have more capital raises their tax bill, because it
reduces
the level of tax-deductible debt and increases that of taxable equity.
While their specific interests may differ, all three countries share a vision of a “soft” partition of Syria that
reduces
Assad and the rebels to mere proxies.
Even structural reform
reduces
output in the short run, because it requires firing workers, shutting down money-losing firms, and gradually reallocating labor and capital to emerging new industries.
Support for parallel research in the same areas
reduces
the efficiency of each investment, and such herding behavior by donors may even preclude some of the most significant advances, which often come as a result of combining the results of seemingly unrelated research.
Research in Peru showed that fortifying an oral-rehydration solution with the proteins extracted from Ventria’s rice substantially lessens the duration of diarrhea and
reduces
the rate of recurrence – a near-miraculous advance for people in the developing world.
A UNESCO project demonstrated that “each additional year of a mother’s schooling
reduces
the probability of the infant mortality rate by 5% to 10%”The health advantages of education extend beyond childbirth and infant health.
Special European facilities, along with the IMF, lend money at below-market interest rates, which
reduces
the extent of austerity required.
By agreeing to limit the current tax rates for just two years, the tax package
reduces
the projected national debt at the end of the decade (relative to what it would have been with the Obama budget) by some $2 trillion or nearly 10% of GDP in 2020.
The two treaties can converge in a framework that minimizes nuclear threats in the near term;
reduces
the number of nuclear weapons in the medium term; and aspires to the complete, verifiable, and irreversible elimination of nuclear weapons in the long term.
A barrel of oil might still cost $90, but a 10% increase in the renminbi-dollar exchange rate
reduces
the renminbi price by 10%.
As population growth increases demand and
reduces
the land available to meet it, companies will have to incorporate sustainability into their operations.
Raising funds by taxing negative externalities
reduces
distortions rather than creating them.
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