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Fixing America’s fiscal problem will be as difficult as it is important.
In June, US President Barack Obama told students at Georgetown University that he refused to condemn them and their children and grandchildren to “a planet that’s beyond fixing.”
That is why one of the biggest obstacles to fixing education in developing countries is financing.
Fixing the IMF and the World BankCAMBRIDGE: As usual, the IMF and World Bank congratulated themselves at their annual meeting in Washington, just concluded.
Most of these institutions are doing the wrong job, and all of them need fixing.
No one in either US political party seems willing to face the fact that fixing the banking system, though necessary, was not sufficient to restore the economy to health (or that the financial system was never really fixed).
Fixing the financial sector was necessary for economic recovery, but far from sufficient.
This calls for diversification of production, urbanization, and industrialization, which in turn require policy interventions that may lie at considerable distance from the poor (such as fixing regulations or targeting the value of the currency).
Fixing the “too big to fail” problem is certainly important, but the direct taxpayer costs of bank rescues were small change compared to the damage wreaked by the financial crisis.
Until Americans suck it up and start fixing global environmental problems that they, more than anyone, have caused, it will be difficult to get the wholehearted support of the rest of the world.
Fixing institutional failures is the most important – and the most difficult – step.
But forget about fixing North-Atlantic exchange rates and the Yen.
Whatever European socialists say, there is no control-freak US government in sight, thus fixing of rates is not about to happen.
Further structural reforms would go a long way toward fixing this problem, but they will also require China’s leaders to make tough political decisions that won’t please everyone.
In fact, governments can and do play a critical role in spurring innovation – actively creating new markets, instead of just fixing them.
The messy interventions in Iraq and Afghanistan, together with the global financial crisis, have driven European countries to turn inward, focusing on fixing their economies and safeguarding their borders, while letting the rest of the world sort itself out.
Instead, Western leaders need to focus on fixing their state budgets in order to salvage what they can.
Tax reform, however, can provide spur retraining and maintain incentives to work, even while fixing gaping fiscal holes.
Last August, the PBOC announced a more market-oriented mechanism for setting the renminbi exchange rate in the interbank market, with the daily fixing rate to be based on the previous day’s closing price.
But, while regulation must address the oversized bank balance sheets that were at the root of the crisis, the IMF is right not to focus excessively on fixing the “too big to fail” problem.
The French and the new German government like the idea of fixing anything that moves; the British and Americans are deeply suspicious of market intervention.
Germany will regret not fixing its roof while the sun was still shining.
Finally, Thatcherism put paid to the policy of fixing prices and wages by central diktat or by tripartite “bargains” between governments, employers, and trade unions.
Fixing the exchange rate and delegating monetary policy to the European Central Bank eliminated two primary means by which national governments stimulate their economies to avoid recession.
Fixing the demand side to get nutritious food to the poor – particularly to the mothers and children who are most vulnerable – is one of the most pressing food-security imperatives.
In the 1930’s, the control of banks went hand in hand with the control of capital movements and in the end with the fixing of exchange rates.
Fixing this will require political and economic changes that allow the development community to provide more support.
Clearly, fixing the Security Council will require considerable time and political effort.
“Tobacco control policy,” Proctor says, “too often centers on educating the public, when it should be focused on fixing or eliminating the product.”
The PBOC declared that market signals would henceforth be factored into its daily exchange-rate fixing.
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