Debasing your money may increase exports and reduce imports, but only for a time.
Governments everywhere then tried to reduce imports through tariffs, with America kicking things off with the Smoot-Hawley act of 1930.
The later would reduce imports, increase exports, and, by improving our balance of payments reduce our reliance on foreign saving to finance domestic investments.
Mr Diaz-Canel has signalled that he favours more complex reforms as the country attempts to increase productivity, reduce imports and eventually abolish its much-resented dual currency.
Whether this was the case or Moscow intentionally neglected to tell Ashgabat about its plan to reduce imports to sabotage the pipeline, the effect was the same.
Instead, the funds will be allowed to deposit some gold with banks who in turn can lend it to jewelers, which in theory should reduce imports for a time.
Asia's economic problems could have much nastier consequences if politicians in rich economies respond badly to Asia's narrowing current-account deficits over the next year as countries reduce imports and increase exports.
The Chinese, hitherto regarded as likely to mop up the Iranian oil that no one else would buy, have joined other countries in promising to reduce imports in return for a waiver on sanctions from America.
At a minimum, Turkey and Egypt will be at a relative disadvantage, as Israel pursues a natural gas production zone not tied to the distribution network of the former and ultimately will reduce imports from the latter.
Other countries have taken a range of actions to reduce their imports as well.
China is also developing technology for electric vehicles, which can help reduce oil imports as well as generate exports.
The Japanese finance minister Jun Azumi, assured Mr Geithner during his visit to Tokyo last week, that it will reduce oil imports from Iran.
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The learned body noted that biofuels like E85 may spur economic development and help reduce oil imports, but they do little to combat climate change.
Climate change policies also help us reduce our imports of fossil fuels and help to give us the lead in smart technologies as resources become more scarce.
This raises the risk of a ricochet effect, in which a slowdown in one country leads it to reduce its imports from others, which squeezes their output, and hence their imports, magnifying the initial fall in demand.
Using the gloomiest assumptions about the extent to which Asian economies reduce their imports and increase their exports, Goldman Sachs thinks that America's growth rate will fall by 0.4 percentage points next year, Europe's by 0.3%, but Japan's by well over 1%.
"Imagine if tomorrow you could announce a new energy plan that would in one stroke cut your constituent's gasoline bill in half, reduce our oil imports, improve our air quality, enhance national security, strengthen the dollar, reduce greenhouse gas emissions and create tens of thousands of new jobs in the U.S, " McClendon said.
This morning we heard the President talk about a bold, but ambitious and achievable goal to reduce our oil imports by a third by 2025.
They have even created an alternative currency, the "Totnes Pound", which can only be spent within the town in an attempt to localize the economy and reduce reliance on imports.
Success with shale gas will reduce dependence on imports and increase tax revenues, they say, but there is a downside: if it takes off, shale gas will shatter the UK's statutory climate change targets unless the government moves much faster with carbon capture and storage technology.
Competition from cheaper imports will reduce the wages of unskilled workers in developed economies, but workers as a whole will be better off.
Clearly, if the purpose of U.S. biofuel policy was to reduce dependence on petroleum imports, ethanol was at best having very little impact.
If we restrict or heavily tax imports, reduce the regulatory cost of doing business in the USA and encourage domestic manufacturing we can bring jobs back.
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If they keep to these targets (admittedly a big if), they will have to restrict car use, which will reduce in turn their imports of oil.
Although this focuses on reducing dependence on oil imports to reduce energy bills and ensure security of supply, it may indicate a reluctance to export gas for the same reasons.
Demand rose despite the government's efforts to reduce the metal's imports through steps such as higher import tax.
While raising the tax is politically unpopular, theoretically, raising the gas tax would fix crumbling highways, lower oil imports, and reduce carbon emissions.
Abundant domestic shale gas should radically reduce America's gas imports.
As we lay the foundation for a clean energy economy, we must also take advantage of the abundant energy resources we have here at home and reduce our dependence on oil imports.
That reduction in cost can be passed on to foreign consumers in the form of lower export prices, which could mitigate entirely the intended effect of the currency adjustment, which is to reduce U.S. imports from China.
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