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But while donations may help stimulate initial demand, a more deliberate market approach will be needed to achieve price reductions.
And the PBOC’s interest-rate cuts, together with reductions in banks’ mandatory reserve ratios, have fueled a rise in the Shanghai, Shenzhen, and ChiNext indices of 95%, 198%, and 383%, respectively, since January 2013.
Notwithstanding some bumps along the way, the succession of such programs in the 1980s helped avoid disruptive defaults, and culminated in meaningful reductions of debt and debt-service obligations, which helped several Latin American economies restore high growth and financial viability.
Right on cue, it is time for the famous Laffer hypothesis – the proposition, identified with the economist Arthur Laffer and “supply-side economics,” that reductions in tax rates are like magic beans: they so stimulate economic growth that total tax revenue (the tax rate times income) goes up rather than down.
These reductions in benefits are likely to perpetuate a cycle of bad planning and decision-making.
His expectation was that by controlling the amount of money in circulation, the Fed could bring about larger reductions in inflation with smaller increases in idle capacity and unemployment than what traditional Keynesian models predicted.
Large reductions in the use of insecticides cut costs for growers of GM varieties, while providing an important health and ecological benefit.
Each would introduce aggressive targets for reductions in greenhouse gas emissions.
Thus, the total effect of the recession on labor income of jobs, hours and wage reductions is much larger.
Improving this state of affairs will require factor- and product-market reforms, together with deep reductions in public-sector deficits.
The conference will unleash new arguments about green jobs, growth, cost increases, cost reductions, changes in values, consumer choice – green this and green that.
Rather, buoyed by the doctrine of deterrence, they argue that reductions would weaken global security.
It is why governments that pledged to make large reductions in greenhouse-gas emissions have been unable to meet their commitments.
Defense and Democracy in AmericaLOS ANGELES – The failure of the US Congressional Joint Committee on Deficit Reduction to reach agreement on budget cuts now sets the stage for $1.2 trillion in automatic reductions to begin in January 2013.
Should these cuts go into effect, the US Defense Department, which already must implement $450 billion in reductions over ten years, will take half the hit.
But pushback has already begun, with Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta arguing that further reductions will impose “substantial risk” to America’s national security.
But, if history is a guide, global events, not deficit hawks or military promoters, will have the ultimate say over how far defense reductions go.
Beyond across-the-board tariff reductions, policymakers will also need to designate sensitive and excluded products in a way that promotes regional value chains, including in agro-processing, chemicals, and automobiles, as well as in the services/logistics inputs that constitute up to 60% of the value of final products.
Tax reductions should be targeted specifically at the poor if one wants the money to be spent to stimulate the economy.
I hope that they will indeed provide an impetus for shifts in policies, allowing for deeper and broader reductions in CO2 emissions.
Yet popular resistance to these supposedly unfair entitlement reductions is stronger than expected.
Roughly 90% of the world’s pregnant women and children with HIV live in Africa, and, despite notable recent reductions in HIV transmission rates, adolescent girls are still more than twice as likely as boys of the same age to carry the virus.
What is notable is that rising energy prices have been accompanied not only by relatively robust competitiveness, but also by huge reductions in CO2 emissions.
Fourth, the agreement contains mechanisms to facilitate international linkage, including scope for residents of rich countries to finance emissions reductions in poor countries.
Even if all those deficit reductions are implemented, all the forecasts of economic growth in subsequent years, on which fiscal consolidation depends, are not realistic.
Its containment requires changing habits and investing in emission reductions so that future generations will have a habitable planet.
This is because the so-called “linking directive” – the regulation authorizing EU firms to import Certified Emission Reductions from CDM projects – bans credits from any forestry project.
These reductions have already left their mark.
With Africa having yet to build nearly two-thirds of the additional capacity that it will need in 2030, the continent faces a unique opportunity to benefit from recent advances and cost reductions in renewable power-generation technologies, thereby leapfrogging the energy path taken by industrialized countries.
We could therefore achieve huge reductions in CO2 emissions by converting to small, lightweight, battery-powered vehicles running on highly efficient electric motors and charged by a low-carbon energy source such as solar power.
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