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In normal circumstances, if a country
reduces
domestic interest rates to boost domestic consumption and investment, its exchange rate depreciates, too, helping exports.
When the weak euro
reduces
the heavily indebted countries’ production costs by 20-25%, they can rejoin the “hard” euro if they accept fiscal reforms that are subject to approval by the European Commission (and thus by the hard-euro creditor countries).
But rewarding North Korea generously for partial measures
reduces
its incentive to take additional steps, much less complete the process of denuclearization.
That, in turn,
reduces
oil exports, driving up prices further.
Such disdainful communication further
reduces
trust.
This
reduces
their dependence on low-skill foreign workers.
The only employment policy that makes sense
reduces
fiscal burdens on the cost of labor and increases flexibility in the market.
The other road
reduces
the fiscal burden of the social state, reinvigorating the economy by reducing taxes and providing the employed not with social protection but with more assurance of finding another job if they lose their current one.
This is inconvenient for climate mandarins in the UK and Copenhagen alike, because it
reduces
clean energy’s allure.
The IMF estimates that every increase of ten percentage points in the debt-to-GDP ratio
reduces
long-term growth by a quarter of a percentage point.
Moreover, such a slowdown would devastate the developing world, as weaker performance in the advanced economies
reduces
the growth of export markets.
But the worst air quality is in winter, when polluted air meets winter fog and is trapped, giving Delhi a grayish opacity that
reduces
visibility, delays flights, and
reduces
the city’s traffic to an even more polluting crawl.
Extensive psychological research shows that intergroup contact
reduces
people’s sense of threat, heightening the possibilities for building trust across society.
But generally, the free flow of information
reduces
the concentration of power.
For an investor, the rate of return is the sum of the rate of appreciation and the rent-price ratio, so the low rent-price ratio
reduces
the advantage of faster appreciation.
Unlike other countries, a decline in the real value of the dollar
reduces
the real value of America's gross international debts.
A fall in the value of the dollar
reduces
Americans' standard of living, but it does not cause the kind of liquidity and solvency crises we have seen so often in the past decade--at least not if New York's major financial institutions have well-hedged derivative books; if not, all bets may be off.
Many have not adjusted as advanced economies’ weakness
reduces
the room for export-led growth; and many delayed structural reforms needed to boost private-sector development and productivity growth, while embracing a model of state capitalism that will soon reveal its limits.
It is time for another comprehensive corporate tax reform, one that
reduces
the tax rate, broadens the tax base, and adopts a hybrid territorial approach with effective base-erosion safeguards.
Malnutrition in all of its forms
reduces
global economic welfare by about 5% annually, through foregone output and additional costs incurred.
The Affordable Care Act (“Obamacare”) also
reduces
hours worked, in two different ways.
First, for some individuals, working fewer hours
reduces
incomes enough to entitle them to a larger government subsidy for health insurance.
Or consider minimum-wage legislation, which
reduces
employers’ willingness to hire low-skilled workers.
When it comes to ECB purchases of government bonds, no one understands exactly for how long and for what purpose the new weapon is to be used – which
reduces
its effectiveness.
Price stability, according to this view,
reduces
uncertainty, thereby enabling firms and individuals to take the right decisions, so it is good, not bad, for economic activity.
Even with unrealistically generous assumptions, the unimpressive net effect is that solar power
reduces
Germany’s CO2 emissions by roughly eight million metric tons – or about 1% – for the next 20 years.
They argue that rapid financial-sector growth
reduces
productivity growth in other sectors.
The first approach
reduces
the cost of anarchy and makes better use of all available information.
But the strengthening euro
reduces
both import prices and export demand, which, in itself, causes prices to fall .
This mechanism, called corollary discharge or reafference,
reduces
our experience of the sensations that we cause by our own actions.
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