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But, despite visible progress on the export front and noticeable labor-cost reductions, this rebalancing is mostly the result of the same collapse in domestic demand that is driving mass unemployment.
“Diplomacy is important, extremely important, and I don’t think these reductions at the State Department are appropriate, because many times diplomacy is a lot more effective – and certainly cheaper – than military engagement.”
As a result, millions of people are unemployed unnecessarily, and millions more face reductions in their living standards.
In 2000, the world’s leaders committed to achieve major reductions in poverty, hunger, and disease by 2015.
Of course, doing so would yield benefits: $3 trillion saved by avoiding the need for other infrastructure investment, benefits to industry and consumers of around $500 billion, and reductions in CO2 emissions worth somewhere between $25 billion and $250 billion annually by 2030.
Despite recent reductions in oil income, the sector still accounts for over 70% of total exports.
Without its own currency, the only cure for a chronic trade deficit is real wage reductions or relative productivity increases.
According to the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, CCS may contribute up to 55% of the emission reductions that scientists believe are necessary during this century to address global warming.
That means that any reductions in China’s share of America’s external imbalance would simply be shifted to other foreign producers.
Initial subsidies were required to drive the dramatic cost reductions now benefiting wind and solar power.
Limited arms reductions might be useful for improving relations.
If governments that retain strong credit ratings are to spend scarce resources effectively, the most effective approach is to catalyze debt workouts and reductions.
Of course, these figures include reductions in areas other than electricity, as well as higher energy prices’ total cost to the economy.
But as Germany pursues its emissions reductions, it should keep an eye on cost-effectiveness, because no climate agenda can succeed without social acceptance.
In 1936, when communists allied with socialists in Léon Blum’s Popular Front, and pushed through wage increases and reductions in working hours, another franc crisis erupted, and, within two years, the center right was back in power.
At the same time, these countries would regain export competiveness through massive wage reductions.
Protests staged by mostly working-class young men against deep reductions in food and fuel subsidies quickly evolved into demonstrations against Iran’s theocracy, reflected in chants of “Death to Ali Khamenei,” the Islamic Republic’s supreme leader.
And airlines will purchase emissions reductions from other economic sectors, thus funneling billions of dollars into low-carbon development around the world.
The real failure was that there was no agreement about how to achieve the lofty goal of saving the planet, no agreement about reductions in carbon emissions, no agreement on how to share the burden, and no agreement on help for developing countries.
That’s the number of children’s lives saved since 1990 by progressive reductions in the rate of child mortality.
This has proven impossible on controversial policies – such as binding reductions on carbon emissions – even when a simple majority supports the legislation.
It is to be hoped that the emphasis will be on further reductions in specific trade barriers that impede US exports to Canada and Mexico.
In recognition of its outsized historic and per capita emissions, the US should agree to economy-wide emissions reductions in line with domestic climate legislation currently being considered.
Rather, non-payment – a “default,” according to credit-rating agencies, when it involves private creditors – typically spurs a conversation about debt restructuring, which can involve maturity extensions, coupon-payment cuts, grace periods, or face-value reductions (so-called “haircuts”).
The authors note that 18 years of the “Kyoto Protocol approach” to international climate policy have failed to produce any discernable real-world reductions in emissions of greenhouse gases.
Reductions of other greenhouse gases, such as nitric oxide, are attainable through clever combustor design.
While there is upside potential in this scenario, depending on more rapid cost reductions in green energy, the world is still years away from negative growth in carbon dioxide emissions.
In April 2010, the leader of this school, Harvard University’s Alberto Alesina, assured European finance ministers that “even sharp reductions of budget deficits have been accompanied and immediately followed by sustained growth rather than recessions even in the very short run.”
One response has been to demand further belt-tightening, for example, in the form of wage reductions and healthcare cuts.
The object should be to accelerate and vet the next generation of clean-energy technologies, as well as to meet the level of demand reductions that will be necessary to reduce greenhouse-gas pollution.
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