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And, in fact, a proven technology exists that could go a long way toward reducing the impact of drought: genetic engineering (GE).
Increases in agricultural productivity, owing to improvements in seeds, new fertilizers and pesticides, improved credit access, and technological breakthroughs, have been a key driver in reducing hunger.
The World Bank has found that productivity growth in agriculture can be up to four times more effective in reducing poverty than growth from other sectors.
But any gains from lower taxes are more than offset by the losses to the private sector, which, facing higher financing costs, will invest less, in turn lowering economic growth – and thus reducing government revenues.
The goal is to combat a severe drought by reducing residential consumption by 20%.
American diplomacy, therefore, did nothing to oppose EDI, and even welcomed the possibility that it might induce Europe’s political elites to support more military spending, reducing the burden on the US.
Having long since collected the peace dividend, the main protagonists of EDI are still reducing their defense spending: between 1998 and 1999, France, Germany, Italy and the United Kingdom reduced their combined defense expenditure by a further $10 billion dollars.
The US delegation, dispatched by a government intent on reducing state intervention in the economy, declared itself vehemently opposed to the idea.
Just about everyone despised this “three-in-one” policy, and people often complained that it created further inconvenience, without reducing time spent on the road.
Despite what drivers – and eventually the government – believed, the three-in-one policy was highly effective in reducing congestion.
If we add up these three factors – the enormous economic challenge of reducing greenhouse gases, the complexity of climate science, and deliberate campaigns to confuse the public and discredit the science – we arrive at the fourth and over-arching problem: US politicians’ unwillingness or inability to formulate a sensible climate-change policy.
He should propose a sound strategy over the next 20 years for reducing America’s dependence on fossil fuels, converting to electric vehicles, and expanding non-carbon energy sources such as solar and wind power.
But now might be an ideal moment to tackle that challenge, given the attention currently being paid to improving pay equity, which includes closing the gender pay gap, confronting rising income inequality, and reducing the ratio of CEOs’ compensation to that of the median employee.
New stability and confidence are underpinning buoyant investment and (amounting to the same thing) reducing capital flight.
These include drastically reducing the wage bill for Egypt’s bloated public sector, which still employs six million people (not counting the army and police); and reducing subsidies, which still constitute 30% of the national budget.
Reducing barriers to the Chinese market would benefit not only foreign producers, but also Chinese households and firms that use imported parts.
Three things:First, we know that giving birth for the first time when younger carries a cost in increased infant mortality, but modern medicine and hygiene have strikingly reduced infant mortality, reducing the cost of younger age at first birth.
That, however, is a precondition for reducing external imbalances and reliance on foreign credit.
As corporate finance experts have been saying for 30 years, having too much debt and too little equity is costly, so reducing the face value of debt can sometimes benefit not only equity-holders, but also debt-holders.
Thus, such controls are ineffective in reducing short-term cyclical pressure on the currency to appreciate.
However, to provide enough food and energy for a growing global population – which the UN forecasts to reach 9.3 billion by 2050 – while reducing greenhouse-gas emissions, eliminating poverty, and improving human and environmental well-being, we need ideas.
Employers can avoid the mandate by reducing an employee’s workweek to less than 30 hours (which the law defines as full-time employment).
On the contrary, it means taking care not to exclude any significant advocate or useful tool in reducing the risk of the unthinkable becoming reality.
For example, smart grids could cut power infrastructure costs by $2-6 billion annually in the US, while reducing costly outages.
At this point, however, there are no indications that Iran is interested in more than reducing external pressure and the impact of the sanctions.
Neither the intensity of these arguments, nor mountains of sophisticated data, can relieve me of the feeling that this debate is stuck in a rut and stunted: stuck, because beyond the notion that growth is a necessary but insufficient condition for reducing poverty, our ideas on the matter have changed little over the years; stunted, because two vital things are often missing from these arguments.
By reducing transaction costs and removing exchange-rate uncertainty, the single European currency was expected to lead to fully integrated product and financial markets.
Brazil recently succeeded in reducing Amazonian deforestation, and net carbon-dioxide emissions have dropped significantly as a result.
A restrictive budgetary policy lowers public expenditure, reducing public deficits and thus reliance on financial markets for government finance.
Of course, crises inevitably produce major setbacks with long recovery periods, drastically reducing growth in income and wealth.
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