Now, a bloated financial sector is being forced to retrench.

By relegating women to the private sphere, their ability to enter the political arena is curtailed.

As mentioned above, the Prosecution usually reduces the number of witnesses as the trial unfolds.

Thus, less CO2 gets released into the atmosphere.

So any country that reduces its saving without cutting its investment will see its current account surplus decline.

This rule requires, in particular, that the parties to a conflict minimize the dangers to civilians arising from military operations.

Typically, earmarked contributions are subject to criteria that are determined a priori, reducing the ability of recipients to reallocate the resources to evolving international or national priorities.

There is also mounting evidence that policy interventions in schools to promote resilience or empathy can have a positive impact on wellbeing. And there are suggestive indications that urban planning can influence happiness, especially when it reduces the time spent commuting or alleviates worries about crime.

The Arab Spring has turned bloody and unpredictably turbulent, further diminishing the odds for peace in Palestine.

They could have bought a smaller house had they known that their hours would be reduced, but now it is difficult to downsize the one that they did buy.

Any improvement in due process reduces the risks of an adverse decision that could complicate implementation.

This is true for the banking system, which has not de leveraged to the satisfaction of either regulators or the markets, thus limiting the scope for credit growth.

If they thought Greece needed to go bankrupt, an immediate decision to that effect would have minimized the cost as well.

One scientific study said that simply having clover growing nearby cut the odds of cabbage root flies hitting the right plant from 36 to 7 .

23. Also recognizes that the strengthening of the informal system may reduce recourse to the formal system, thereby avoiding unnecessary litigation

Nothing that the EU or its individual members can do would have as great an impact on reducing income inequality in Europe than eliminating national protectionist barriers to migration, movement of capital, and provision of services.

But America s determination to destabilize Iran and the Iranian government s determination to retain power reduce the likelihood of this scenario.

Then we enable these loans to be pooled and packaged into securities that can be sold to investors, reducing risk in the process. We divvy up the stream of payments on these home loans further into tranches of varying risk, compensating holders of the riskier kind with higher interest rates.

Cutting these programs will lower American economic growth in the long term, with negative consequences both at home and abroad.

Finally, the belief that democracy and economic reform will undercut terrorism is based on a series of assumptions that may or may not prove accurate.

And if I buy a bigger home or just increase the size of my mortgage, I receive a larger deduction that reduces my taxable income, lowering my tax bill.

(e) A diminishing role for nuclear weapons in security policies so as to minimize the risk that these weapons will ever be used and to facilitate the process of their total elimination

And, while raising so much revenue with so low a tax rate sounds grand, the declining volume of trades would shrink the tax base precipitously.

An appreciation of 25 roughly the extent by which the renminbi currently is undervalued would reduce China s growth by somewhat more than two percentage points.

Economic growth reduces poverty only if it benefits the poor, and the effect of growth on poverty reduction is a function of the pattern of income distribution within a country.

But it would be unlikely to win such a war, and prudent policy on all sides can make such a war unlikely.

These things acting singly or in combination can cause damage to munitions that may reduce the reliability of the item and may result in increased levels of duds.

Support was expressed with the main finding of OIOS that UN Habitat needs to sharpen its focus and narrow the scope of its activities.

Furthermore, the decline in the working age cohort would squeeze labor supply, fueling wage growth and eroding the country s economic competitiveness.

Moreover, a recession or a slowdown in the US and Europe would hit Brazilian exports, narrowing Brazil s trade surplus considerably. In fact, although America s trade significance has diminished, accounting for only 16 of Brazilian exports last year, Brazilian trade and growth typically go hand in hand with the US and Europe historically they have never decoupled.

In particular, we believe that an international agreement on trade facilitation is the right step, as it would reduce export and import costs and restore momentum to global trade liberalization.

In an era of global abundance, our world has the resources to reduce dramatically the massive divides that persist between rich and poor, if only those resources can be unleashed in the service of all peoples.

ICAO recently developed new guidance material on the subject and believes that if properly implemented, general measures can reduce the risk of a successful attack considerably, and that additional measures taken at times of heightened risk could reduce the threat still further.

Even if there were no increase in inflation rates, a sharp fall in the dollar s value relative to the euro and other foreign currencies would reduce its purchasing value in buying European and other products.

But, because we cannot be certain that the threat of punishment deters all crime, or that all criminals are caught, our ability to induce gun owners to behave responsibly is limited.

By 2016, America s productive potential would be smaller by an amount that would reduce real GDP by 3.6 500 billion real dollars, or roughly 3,000 per worker.

A higher exchange rate would reduce their current account surpluses, because they are unable or unwilling to reduce their savings and sustain growth through higher spending on domestic consumption.

As a result of these and other problems, the average American secondary school student receives inadequate preparation in core subjects such as writing, mathematics, and analytical reasoning, which in turn reduces college enrollment and completion rates. The US experience is consistent with OECD evidence that students from countries with greater income inequality score lower on academic achievement tests.

For example, China needs a stronger exchange rate to help curb manic investment in its export sector, and thereby reduce the odds of a 1990 s style collapse. As for the US, a sharp hike in energy taxes on gasoline and other fossil fuels would not only help improve the government s balance sheet, but it would also be a way to start addressing global warming.

A smoother international distribution of power, even in a global system that is less than fully democratic, would pose fewer temptations to abandon the prudent exercise of power.

A governmental commitment to exclude derivative creditors from any safety net extended when financial institutions fail would reduce future costs to taxpayers from cases like AIG.

If the trade deficit is reduced by 3 of GDP between now and the end of the decade, the implied rise in exports and decline in imports would reduce output available for US consumption and investment by about 0.3 per year.

A stronger renminbi would reduce the import bill, including prices for oil and other production inputs, while making Chinese goods more expensive for foreign buyers and foreign goods more attractive to Chinese consumers.

Nothing in these Gguidelines may be construed as diminishing or extinguishing existing or future rights indigenous peoples and individuals may have or acquire under national or international law neither may they be construed as violating universal standards of human rights.

The identity crisis now roiling France is fueled by the conjunction of many factors globalization, which produces uncertainty, the European Union, which curtails the freedom of national leaders, American strategic dominance, which has reduced France s position in the world, and the rising Asian powers.