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In the name of reducing US inequality, presidential candidates in both parties would stymie the aspirations of hundreds of millions of desperately poor people in the developing world to join the middle class.
Meanwhile, new technologies raise demand for skilled workers, while reducing demand for their less-skilled counterparts – a trend that fuels the expansion of the wage gap between skilled and unskilled.
But, while such measures have strong public support, they could end up hurting the economy, by reducing business investment, for example, and impeding job creation.
But proponents of such US guarantees believe that they discourage aggression and contribute to nuclear non-proliferation by reducing the incentive of US allies to seek their own nuclear deterrents.
American liberals and conservatives, as well as US friends and allies, all favor the principle of enhancing the security of dangerous nuclear materials and reducing the risk of nuclear terrorism, which could plausibly threaten anyone.
Now, troubled countries do not have the option of reducing their debt burdens and increasing external competitiveness by devaluing their currencies.
Monetary policy may have bolstered stock prices in two ways, either lowering the discount rate by compressing the equity risk premium, or simply reducing risk-free rates for long enough to raise the present value of stocks.
Reducing public-sector dependence requires increasing citizens’ involvement in local businesses, so increasing the private sector’s role in generating employment is vital.
Ensuring that intellectual and other property rights are adequately protected for citizens and foreigners alike is essential, as is reducing corruption.
There is little doubt that reducing the SOEs’ power would make the Chinese economy far more efficient and dynamic.
Making China a “harmonious” society – the aim of the report’s advice on reducing inequality – is clearly a desirable goal.
When the tradeoff is between taking lives and, say, reducing property theft, the case for milder punishments is far stronger.
We do not face a choice between reducing poverty and addressing climate change, as the fossil-fuel companies maintain.
For this reason, we are particularly encouraged by Goal 10 of the SDGs, with its commitment to reducing inequality within and among countries, as well as the focus on gender equality throughout the goals.
As for the mosquitos in Hawaii, one might ask how reducing their numbers would affect the endangered hoary bat species.
Progress in reducing child malnutrition has also been modest, with almost one-third of South Asia’s children underweight in 2010.
And, while progress in reducing adolescent childbearing and increasing contraceptive use has continued, its pace has slowed.
There are other instruments available for increasing domestic saving and reducing consumption besides the fiscal balance.
Alternatively, it may intervene and sell international reserves, reducing the stock available to repay dollar debt.
In 2015, United Nations member states adopted the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which call for recognizing, reducing, and redistributing unpaid care work – a measure long proposed by feminist economists and gender-equality advocates.
The focus on new areas of deep integration should not obscure the old-fashioned free-trade benefits that are also part of the TPP: reducing thousands of existing tariff and non-tariff barriers.
For example, by banning new coal plants and shifting fossil-fuel subsidies toward the financing of renewable energy through feed-in tariffs, sustainable energy could be brought to billions of people worldwide, while reducing fossil-fuel dependency.
Ultimately, reducing the amount of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere will serve the common good.
But, without an international mechanism to compensate those most at risk of a warming planet, individual countries will weigh the trade-offs of reducing greenhouse-gas emissions differently.
According to a recent survey of industry practices by CDP, a non-profit energy and environmental consultancy, mining companies from Australia to Brazil are beginning to extract resources while reducing their environmental footprint.
Why is it that share prices did well in America and Europe, while falling in Asia to the embarrassment of investment managers who pumped tens of billions of dollars unprofitably into Asia, while reducing their US holdings?
He rightly believed that reducing the money supply would have been too blunt an instrument to use.
But treatment is not only an ethical imperative; it also is important in preventing and reducing sexual transmission.
That same month, more than 120 retired generals signed a letter to Trump arguing that funding the State Department and the USAID is “critical to preventing conflict and reducing the need to put our men and women in uniform in harm’s way.”
Put another way, the net costs of reducing CO2 emissions – in terms of growth, income, and other measures of economic and social performance – are not all that high in the short and medium term.
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