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Increased security for one side must not be perceived by the other side as reducing its own security.
Reducing the prices of staple food by even a modest 10% (far below the average premium cartels around the world charge) by tackling anticompetitive behavior in these sectors, or by reforming regulations that shield them from competition, could lift 270,000 people in Kenya, 200,000 in South Africa, and 20,000 in Zambia out of poverty.
Clearly, deficient aggregate demand has played a role by reducing the incentive to expand capacity.
Some might argue that reducing corruption entails the creation of a capable state; the good is created out of the fight against the bad.
Any voluntary resumption of lending will necessitate reducing both fears and potential opportunities.
As Suu Kyi noted during our conversation, education will play an increasingly important role in reducing poverty and promoting peace.
Since 2010, the US Congressional Budget Office has lowered its outlook for productivity growth in the decade to 2020 from 25% to 16%; so has the United Kingdom’s Office for Budget Responsibility, reducing its forecast from 22% to 14% productivity growth.
The privilege of issuing the global reserve currency confers enormous advantages on the US, lowering not just the interest rates that the US government pays, but reducing all interest rates that Americans pay.
Reducing and ultimately eliminating civilian casualties in this war is a moral and legal obligation for all combatants.
These structural adjustments are aimed at reducing China’s dependence on heavy industry and manufacturing exports while fostering domestic consumption, promoting higher-tech activities, and strengthening the services sector.
I have been an advocate of reducing the value of the euro for several years, so I think this strategy was a good one.
This has been a by-product of the increase in real demand, achieved by reducing unemployment to a level at which rising wages contribute to faster price growth.
This could mean further reducing already-negative short-term interest rates and expanding and/or extending its bond-purchase program.
And he did deliver on a major new arms-reduction treaty with Russia, and hosted a summit aimed at reducing the vulnerability of nuclear weapons and materials to theft or diversion.
This is a situation where earnings from oil exports drive up the value of the currency, reducing the competitiveness of other domestically produced products.
By the same token, reducing expectations means that the significance of the results should not be exaggerated.
When he introduced a new tax on diesel fuel in the name of reducing carbon-dioxide emissions, struggling French commuters saw it as a personal affront.
Finally, closer engagement with private- and social-sector actors and local communities could help to increase efficiency, while reducing the burden on the public sector.
We should be open to other ways to stop warming – such as cutting carbon emissions in the future instead of now, or focusing on reducing emissions of other greenhouse gases.
We could also put a bigger focus on reducing black carbon, considered responsible for as much as 40% of current net warming and one-third of Arctic melting.
Sooty pollution from indoor fires claims several million lives each year, so reducing black carbon would be a life-saver.
Reducing gender gaps in employment and education has been shown to help economies diversify their exports.
And reducing gender inequalities also reduces income inequality, allowing for more sustainable growth.
Unfortunately, while many countries have made progress in reducing gender gaps in primary-school enrollment, there is still much more work to be done at the secondary and tertiary levels.
The SDGs set a bold but achievable agenda for addressing poverty, reducing inequality, improving education and health, and protecting the planet.
Many business leaders do understand that the future of the world economy, and their own companies, depends on reducing poverty, and that this is becomes harder to achieve as inequality widens.
This is in line with the EU’s long-term goal of reducing emissions by 80-95% (again, relative to the 1990 level) by 2050.
The next logical step is to extend safe avenues to the frontline region, thereby reducing the number of migrants who make the dangerous Mediterranean crossing.
Thus, reducing it would require macroeconomic policies to reduce domestic expenditures and increase domestic savings.
But it was his famous declaration in July 2012 that the ECB would do “whatever it takes” to preserve the euro that, while successful in reducing interest rates in the distressed countries of the eurozone periphery, also contributed to the euro’s current strength.
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