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The meeting of G-20 finance ministers and central bankers in the South Korean city of Kyeongju on October 22 produced some noteworthy achievements, such as shifting 6% of the IMF’s voting quota from overrepresented Europe to underrepresented emerging countries, doubling members’ quotas, and reducing Europe’s representation on the Fund’s executive board by two seats.
The Kyeongju meeting decided that the G-20 countries would move toward market-determined exchange rates and pursue “politics conducive to reducing excessive imbalances and maintaining current-account imbalances at sustainable levels.”
Moreover, immunization is considered one of the most cost-effective public-health interventions for reducing child morbidity, mortality, and disability.
Countries that cut their emissions would, in effect, be subsidizing their competitors’ growth, not necessarily reducing the speed of global warming.
First, all polluters must sit at the negotiating table and be forced or induced to participate in reducing pollution.
The Philippines includes preparedness as a core component in its overall strategy for reducing disaster risk.
A New Vision for IndiaNEW DELHI – India’s Bharatiya Janata Party, led by Narendra Modi, has stormed into office, winning its first absolute majority and reducing the formerly dominant Congress party to a rump, with just 44 of 543 seats in the lower house.
It does, however, share some hydrological and meteorological data – essential to enable downstream countries to foresee and plan for floods, thereby protecting lives and reducing material losses.
Ending poverty and reducing emissions, including by effectively managing land use and halting deforestation, will go a long way toward stopping the trend and reversing the damage.
If Poland's central bank had applied a forward-looking DIT policy over the past two years, it would have cut interest rates (reducing the inflation risk premium) much faster.
Digital surveys and analytical tools can make the process more inclusive by reducing the influence of narrow but entrenched interest groups.
Online real-estate databases match buyers and sellers faster, while reducing price premiums stemming from information asymmetries.
This has serious implications for how we manage the global commons – and for reducing poverty: if developing countries are to realize their legitimate growth aspirations, they will need more time, as well as financial and technological support, to make the transition to sustainability.
The conventional wisdom will tell you that the MDGs targets – reducing poverty and hunger, improving the health of mothers and children, combating HIV/AIDS, increasing access to education, protecting the environment, and forging a global partnership for development – are simply unattainable.
Sustainable growth can be achieved only if Italy’s economy regains its competitiveness, and within the eurozone there is only one way to accomplish this: by reducing the prices of its goods relative to those of its eurozone competitors.
But financial markets demonstrated their shortsightedness in the years preceding the crisis, and are doing so once again, by applying pressure for spending cuts, even if that implies reducing badly needed public investments.
Such policies might well prevent disease, thereby saving money, reducing human suffering, and promoting healthier and more meaningful lives.
Policymakers must make it easier to move goods across borders, by improving connectivity between countries and reducing bureaucratic hurdles and administrative costs.
The African Development Bank estimates that it will double the volume of trade between the two countries, while reducing marginal costs by 30%.
Amid increasingly intense international competition to attract foreign investment, reducing the corporate tax would actually increase Japan’s tax revenues, by spurring companies to invest their vast cash stockpiles in more productive activities.
In part this is accomplished by explicitly reducing entitlements and raising retirement age from absurdly low levels.
With only around €10 billion ($10.8 billion), these countries could have provided better housing, food, and education for refugees, thereby reducing the incentive to flee to Europe.
Beyond reducing the incentive for asylum-seekers to risk their lives and life savings to cross the Mediterranean, such an approach would show solidarity with the frontline countries, which will continue to host most of the refugees.
That would create room for a more uniform tax response among countries, thus reducing the ability of the super-rich to evade taxation by switching location.
Reducing dependence on external demand – for example, by promoting private-sector investment and encouraging household expenditure – is crucial.
By reducing primary expenses, then reducing taxes.
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.
Reducing unemployment is desirable, of course, but many terrorists do not come from poverty.
In fact, such a large increase has seldom – if ever – been attempted, owing to the risk that it would spur consumers to spend before it takes effect, thereby reducing future consumption.
Outside efforts can help reduce poverty, but it is, ultimately, the efforts of low-income countries themselves to sustain strong economic performance, improve governance, and develop stable and effective institutions that will have the most important impact on reducing poverty.
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