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But reducing disability claims (and thus payments) is only half of the equation.
By offering conditional approval of the Keystone XL, Obama could advance the pipeline’s very genuine diplomatic and economic benefits, while reducing its environmental costs.
China may even help to finance the large infrastructure projects that Trump has promised, thereby reducing pressure on the US budget.
In addition, the precise pattern of technological change has put pressure on the middle class everywhere – by reducing the demand for workers who have only a secondary-school education.
A tax cut to low-income individuals or increased unemployment benefits would have provided far more stimulus to consumption, just as a temporary investment tax credit would have boosted capital spending far more than reducing taxes on dividends did.
Finally, Asian economies should strengthen their domestic growth engines, including consumption and investment, thereby reducing their reliance on external markets.
Given this, governments should devote resources to reducing inequality, regardless of the shifting preferences of the average citizen.
For one thing, technology-intensive warfare substitutes machines for soldiers, reducing the number of American casualties.
With the US government’s access to global debt markets reducing the need to raise taxes, foreign governments now own nearly one-third of the US government’s $14 trillion debt.
The main challenge is to convince policymakers that there is more to reducing poverty than focusing on just three diseases.
Recent research has documented the multiple health benefits of reducing greenhouse-gas emissions.
Reducing livestock production in order to limit cattle-related methane emissions and deforestation – significant factors contributing to climate change – would also improve human health.
Reducing meat consumption should reduce rates of colorectal cancer as well – the second most common type in men, after lung cancer.
The experience of Cuba in the 1990’s confirms the health effects of reducing fossil-fuel consumption.
Reducing oil use in the transport sector is essential to preventing starvation in poor countries.
Third, we could separate past information, so that it takes a special effort or additional time to retrieve it, thereby reducing the chances that we accidentally stumble upon it.
Similarly, letting people compare their energy use with that of their peers could prompt them to save hundreds of billions of dollars in electricity costs each year, to say nothing of reducing carbon emissions.
Alongside targets like eliminating poverty and measures to protect the environment is a commitment to reducing mortality caused by NCDs – the first time the UN’s official development agenda has taken direct aim at the problem.
Overcoming these challenges is essential to reducing cervical cancer and pre-cancer rates in the coming years.
The key to success will be to manage the sequence of liquidity injections and interest-rate reforms so that the effort to address local subprime debts does not trigger asset-price deflation, while reducing financial repression that cuts off funding to more productive sectors and regions.
What we need are universal sustainable development goals on issues such as energy, food security, sanitation, urban planning, and poverty eradication, while reducing inequality within the planet’s limits.
Setting a maximum level of red blood cells actually levels the playing field by reducing the impact of the genetic lottery.
On the contrary, because effective responses to poverty require a sustained focus on social movements, cultural and environmental concerns, and political leadership, attention to human well-being can play an important part in reducing material disadvantage.
My students worry that such trends may continue, reducing job security, lowering rates of pay, and even eliminating some of the jobs altogether.
With a V-shaped recovery, however, this expenditure fell again, reducing the deficit rapidly.
For low-income countries, this means reducing the use of imported oil to produce electricity.
Expanded social-security programs and a richer menu of saving and investment options could go a long way toward reducing precautionary saving and boosting consumption.
In doing so, the Commission is rewarding inefficiency and reducing the effectiveness of its commitments to clean up the environment.
Most are committed to reducing emissions by 8% by 2010.
Making the Union’s newest members carry a disproportionate share of the burden of reducing the EU’s total amount of pollution is both unjust and foolish.
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