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This is because greater reliance on recycling, for example,
reduces
costs – and thus enhances companies’ competitiveness – while reducing emissions and driving new approaches like cross-sector innovation.
As this weakens growth and
reduces
inflation, the speed at which their sovereign-debt ratios can be reduced declines considerably.
That is the mechanism that
reduces
the incentives to expropriate the creditor, and makes debt secure and cheap.
The most fundamental reform of housing markets remains something that
reduces
homeowners’ overleverage and lack of diversification.
Such technology doesn’t reduce costs only for voters; it also
reduces
costs for the state, making it easier than ever to conduct elections.
The lesson from many developed and developing countries is that underinvestment in infrastructure, human capital, institutions, and the economy’s knowledge and technology base
reduces
long-term growth.
The expectation that girls will grow up to do little other than serve their husbands
reduces
parents’ incentives to invest in their daughters’ education.
This way, at a cost of €4,600, Micro
reduces
its taxable revenue by €24,600, while Macro boosts its turnover figure by €20,000.
The state collects additional VAT from Micro (at a loss of corporate taxes that Micro cannot pay anyway);Macro enjoys the benefits of seemingly higher turnover; and the gas-station owner
reduces
his losses from converting FE into BE.
America – and the world – would also benefit from a US energy policy that
reduces
reliance on imports not just by increasing domestic production, but also by cutting consumption, and that recognizes the risks posed by global warming.
This bias
reduces
developing countries’ comparative advantage in traditionally labor-intensive manufacturing (and other) activities, and decreases their gains from trade.
In the short run, increased efficiency
reduces
the cost of a good or service, so people consume more of it.
Otherwise, outsourcing merely
reduces
demand for domestic labor, just like other efficiency gains.
For example, requiring girls to continue their education
reduces
child marriage.
Providing girls with secondary education also
reduces
family sizes, and, when they do become mothers, it improves their children’s health and chances of survival.
The result of low interest rates, quantitative easing, and forward guidance, Taylor argues, is a “decline in credit availability [that]
reduces
aggregate demand, which tends to increase unemployment, a classic unintended consequence.”
When a central bank
reduces
long-term interest rates via current and expected future open-market operations, it does not prevent potential lenders from offering to lend at higher interest rates; nor does it stop borrowers from taking up such an offer.
Tax competition is not the way to go, not least because it
reduces
the revenues needed to make such investments, particularly in developing countries, which, according to a 2015 International Monetary Fund report, lose out on more than $200 billion per year because of tax avoidance by multinationals.
Population stabilization
reduces
pressure on environmental assets such as unspoiled countryside, which people value more as their incomes increase.
A sustained and marked decline in government debt (relative to GDP) would be welcome news for those of us who equate high indebtedness with the kind of fiscal fragility that
reduces
the government’s ability to cope with adverse shocks.
The same is likely to happen over the next few years as the US
reduces
its fiscal deficit and thereby shrinks its current-account deficit while China
reduces
its national saving and thereby shrinks its current-account surplus.
If the recession
reduces
demand for imports from developing nations, many people living in those countries will lose their jobs.
Preservation of frontier habitats also helps regulate water flows,
reduces
the risk of flooding, and maintains biodiversity.
This increases developing countries exports and
reduces
their import demand (or increases it at a lower rate than export growth).
Meanwhile, corporations reduce home country manufacturing capacity and investment, which
reduces
home country exports while increasing imports.
Raising taxes lowers the burden of non-communicable diseases, improves public health, and
reduces
expenditures on tobacco-related illnesses.
Once teaching reduces, if not eliminates, the original competitive advantage associated with a piece of research, academics and their funders are forced to seek new sources of advantage by producing new knowledge.
Employee ownership improves incentives for employee productivity, and
reduces
incentives for a firm to exploit its workers by, for example, imposing poor wages or working conditions on employees who, though highly productive, find that for personal or professional reasons their opportunities for alternative employment have decreased over time.
Third, we could adopt an alternative approach that directly
reduces
the value of underwater mortgages.
For starters, the lack of capital makes it difficult for women to buy quality seeds and fertilizer, or even to access farmland, which in turn
reduces
agricultural productivity.
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