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Foreign aid – especially aid that saves lives and
reduces
human suffering – should not be a partisan issue.
Spending – whether by the United States government during World War II, following the Reagan tax cuts of 1981, by Silicon Valley during the late 1990’s, or by home buyers in America’s south and on its coasts in the 2000’s – boosts employment and
reduces
unemployment.
It
reduces
a complex policy to a stark set of figures: if we invest one extra dollar (or euro, taka, gourde, or peso), we will get a return that is x times higher.
It also means contributing to a new framework for global infrastructure investment that steers resources away from environmentally destructive projects and
reduces
the wastage often associated with political patronage.
Compared with no deployment, spending $100 million on a peacekeeping initiative
reduces
the ten-year risk of conflict from around 38% to 16.5%.
The most expensive deployment
reduces
the risk of conflict by a massive 30 percentage points, with ten-year gains of $75 billion, compared to the overall cost of $8.5 billion.
Creating an independent fiscal institution that provides its own budget forecasts works, insofar as it
reduces
the bias in deficit projections.
One trick is privatization of government enterprises, which
reduces
the budget deficit in a given year on a one-time basis, but might increase the deficit in the long run if the enterprise had been profitable.
Although there is a tax on corporate income, it is integrated with personal taxes in a way that
reduces
its adverse effect on investment and production.
Rising productivity and capital accumulation increases wages and capital income, but monopoly power
reduces
these income shares.
Significant wind and solar usage
reduces
the number of hours gas and coal generation operates; with large fixed costs, this makes every kWh more expensive.
This can be achieved through a program for subsistence farmers that not only improves productivity, but also
reduces
weather dependency and provides simple financing instruments to encourage investment in new technologies and equipment, increased land ownership, and easier access to local markets.
This useful policy
reduces
exploitative practices that sometimes enable multinational corporations and wealthy governments to obtain outrageous profits from indigenous agriculture.
Direct support for initial deployment – with guaranteed prices for electricity delivered –
reduces
risk and thus lowers required returns.
Such interventions are extremely cost-effective, and packaging these interventions together and linking them with other health programs
reduces
costs further.
That doesn’t mean that we cannot stumble into a war – or a nuclear exchange – through accident, miscalculation, system error, or sabotage; but, it hugely
reduces
the risk.
Freer trade across borders
reduces
income disparities.
The 2015 White House report, for example, found that a ten-percentage-point decrease in tariffs leads to a one-percentage-point drop in the wage gap between men and women, and that lowering tariffs also
reduces
wage gaps based on race and immigration status.
Because a decision by a second adult to work could eliminate eligibility, the program discourages employment and
reduces
earned incomes.
But the prize impedes the flow of knowledge,
reduces
the benefits derived from it, and distorts the economy.
Smiling, she adds, encourages people to feel more connected with each other and safer, so it
reduces
fear of crime – an important element in the quality of life of many neighborhoods.
This, in turn,
reduces
their inclination to borrow.
Economic growth
reduces
poverty only if it benefits the poor, and the effect of growth on poverty reduction is a function of the pattern of income distribution within a country.
No mention was made that, according to the Center for American Progress, competition between Aetna and Humana just in the Medicare Advantage health-insurance market
reduces
the average annual premium customers pay each company by $155 and $43, respectively.
Among the many findings is that watching too much television induces passivity, both at the level of neural functioning and of behavior and that it interferes with learning and
reduces
political and civic participation.
The same negative effect on the current account could occur if the corporate sector increases its rate of investment in plant and equipment or
reduces
corporate saving by paying higher wages or dividends.
That rule
reduces
income and payroll taxes by more than $200 billion.
In other words, however much your model
reduces
risk-weighted assets, you cannot take credit for more than a 27.5% cut.
What is it about Israel that
reduces
America’s president to Jell-O?
Indeed, that is why the latest deal with Greece, which entails even more bailout funds, could work, as long as the country is accorded the debt reprofiling that it needs to reverse the decline of its GDP,
reduces
its primary surpluses, and pursues balance-sheet-strengthening reforms.
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