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At the same time that neo-liberals were slashing and burning their way through old social-democratic arrangements, the left was dissipating its energies on cultural politics, “identity,” and ideological multiculturalism.
Recent success in countries such as Ethiopia and Rwanda in expanding access to impregnated bed nets and slashing malaria rates is building confidence that the disease can be dramatically reduced around the world and, in some areas, eliminated entirely.
Making matters worse, Macron launched his reform agenda by slashing France’s wealth tax, a move that won him the sobriquet “President of the Rich.”
The cash-strapped government is slashing the subsidies that large numbers of Angolans depend on, fueling popular anger and a sense that the petro-boom enriched only the elite, leaving everyone else worse off.
America’s distorted political system gives the rich everything they want in the form of tax cuts, while slashing programs for the poor.
The problem for the US is that developed and emerging economies have been slashing their rates, leaving the US – which had one of the developed world's lowest corporate tax rates after the 1986 tax reform – at a serious disadvantage.
In the early 2000s, another Republican president, George W. Bush, essentially followed Reagan’s playbook, again slashing taxes and sending deficits soaring.
By slashing subsidies from regional budgets, federal revenues increased from 9% of GDP in 1998 to 17% of GDP this year.
As no faction embraces the military, an expected rise in defense expenditures has been insignificant; indeed, Putin is slashing 600,000 men from Russia’s military.
Yet many of Trump’s policies – not least slashing taxes for the rich – are intended to perpetuate the privileges of the economic elite.
When Intermountain Healthcare, a network of hospitals in Utah and Idaho, improved its treatment for premature babies, it reduced the time they spent in intensive care, thereby slashing the costs of treating them.
Before anyone starts slashing travel budgets, let’s try to understand why we need to move people rather than information.
To increase labor productivity and gain competitiveness, Greece and Italy have three options – domestic devaluation (slashing domestic prices), intra-euro devaluation (raising prices in Germany), or an exit from the eurozone – all of which require a stable government.
After Abe appointed Haruhiko Kuroda as the new head of the Bank of Japan (BOJ) and charged him with getting the inflation rate to 2%, Kuroda loosened monetary policy immediately and dramatically, by slashing interest rates and launching large-scale purchases of long-term government bonds.
Despite his denials, it was Trump who more or less agreed to allow Wolff, whose reputation for slashing his subjects Trump presumably would have known from his years in New York City, to interview the White House staff for a book.
Instead of slashing expenditures, developing-country leaders should focus on providing decent job opportunities and improved living standards for their citizens.
Paul Ryan, the chairman of the House Budget Committee, proposes to balance the budget over the next 10 years largely by slashing the program.
May, for example, has credited the system with reducing infant mortality, increasing life expectancy, driving down absolute poverty, boosting disposable incomes, expanding access to education, and slashing illiteracy rates.
Menem promises to raise both private- and public-sector salaries by 30%, while also slashing the budget.
Rapid population growth – from around one million in 1920 to around seven million today – made all of this far more deadly by slashing living standards.
To meet these demands, Japan’s government has been slashing spending on education and research, the two areas in which the country’s post-war economic rise was forged.
Moreover, Ahmadinejad uses the sanctions as political cover to pursue his economically sound – but deeply unpopular – policy of slashing subsidies on electricity, petrol, and bread.
Moreover, because this administratively imposed import decline created shortages of raw material and intermediate inputs, the collapse in agriculture and manufacturing was even larger than that of overall GDP, slashing almost another $1,000 per capita in locally produced consumer goods.
Since then, these countries have been slashing their rates in order to attract foreign direct investment and discourage their own companies from shifting operations and profits to low-tax foreign locations.
A fiscal devaluation – slashing payroll taxes and replacing the revenues with a higher VAT – would also help.
Slashing food and energy subsidies in order to reduce fiscal strain is unlikely to win favor in a country like Egypt, where 40% of per capita income is allocated to food.
Slashing incomes depresses domestic spending and makes debts even less manageable.
Early in his presidency, he introduced a series of unpopular measures, slashing the wealth tax and cutting social benefits.
All the main countries are now committed to slashing their budget deficits.
The government has made up for budget shortfalls by ruthlessly slashing education, health care, and now pensions.
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