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Over the last decade, trade
liberalization
and monetary integration supported the expansion of market-based financing in Europe.
Its recently enacted 13th Five-Year Plan aims to dampen fear-driven precautionary saving through interest-rate liberalization, the introduction of deposit insurance, the loosening of the hukou residential permit system (which would improve benefit portability), and relaxation of the one-child family planning policy.
From March to December 2011, hundreds of thousands of Syrians marched every Friday, seeking the same political
liberalization
that Tunisians, Egyptians, Yemenis, Bahrainis, Jordanians, and others across the Middle East and North Africa sought in what was optimistically called “the Arab Spring.”
Based on their own experience over the past 30 years, the Chinese know how economic reform and
liberalization
can change a country’s perception of its self-interests and stance toward the world.
Consider the hypothetical example of full trade
liberalization
in textiles, which would have greatly asymmetric effects between, say, Sweden, with hardly any textile industry, and Portugal, with a substantial one.
Manufacturing Workers 24 Months after Layoff in the EU15Source : OECDThrough the EGF, part of the cost of helping displaced textile workers would be borne by all EU countries, thereby making wider trade
liberalization
a more likely prospect.
If these persons were employed to the extent such workers are employed in America--through
liberalization
of labor markets or through wage subsidies (as France and Holland have done on a modest scale)--European labor productivity would be pulled down markedly.
These shifts will be gradual, persistent, and less predictable than what investors had come to expect during the deceptive calm of the euro’s first decade, when the currency union’s establishment, together with EU enlargement and liberalization, appeared to create a stable and benign environment.
The surge in cross-border flows of goods, services, capital, and information produced by technological innovation and market
liberalization
has made the world’s countries too interconnected, their argument goes, for any country to be able to solve its economic problems on its own.
But the government labeled this completely non-violent movement a "counterrevolutionary rebellion" in order to legitimize its brutal crackdown and send a clear message to its people that there would be no political
liberalization.
In 1991, around the time India’s economic
liberalization
began, the country’s cities tended toward specialization.
After all, the IMF’s main responsibility is to fight crises, most of which have been in developing countries – more than a hundred since the disastrous policies of financial deregulation and
liberalization
began some 30 years ago.
Under recent French leadership, the International Monetary Fund, after decades of promoting economic – especially financial –
liberalization
and globalization, has become more careful, if not skeptical, of its own previous policy analyses, prescriptions, and operations.
It confirms full visa
liberalization
as a long-term goal (with visa facilitation agreements in the meantime), promises enhanced cooperation on energy security, diversification, and efficiency, and comes with dedicated programs and projects to help the neighbors in their integration and reform efforts in all these areas.
Hopefully, in WIPO’s reconsideration of intellectual property regimes, the voices of the developing world will be heard more clearly than it was in the WTO negotiations; hopefully, WIPO will succeed in outlining what a pro-developing intellectual property regime implies; and hopefully, WTO will listen: the aim of trade
liberalization
is to boost development, not hinder it.
That will mean undertaking difficult structural reforms, such as the
liberalization
of industrial relations.
The genius of China’s state capitalism is that it ensured the continued dominance of Communist Party elites while improving the allocation of resources, not that it alone could have provided price incentives to farmers and then managed
liberalization
of urban markets.
Examples include South Korea since 1965, Chile since 1974, and India since 1991; all recorded markedly higher growth rates after
liberalization.
Liberalization
will affect manufacturing sectors such as the automotive industry, as well as services, including the Internet.
Liberalization
of agriculture – long a stubborn holdout in international trade negotiations – is noteworthy.
A policy decision can be positive in the aggregate but severely harmful to some groups – which is frequently the case with
liberalization
measures.
In most countries, the cuts in subsidies that accompanied price
liberalization
were offset in part, or even in full, by increased social spending, rather than deficit reduction.
The fundamental problem was premature capital market
liberalization.
It is therefore ironic to see the US Treasury Secretary once again pushing for capital market
liberalization
in India – one of the two major developing countries (along with China) to emerge unscathed from the 1997 crisis.
Subsequent research by the IMF has confirmed what every serious study had shown: capital market
liberalization
brings instability, but not necessarily growth.
Of course, Wall Street (whose interests the US Treasury represents) profits from capital market liberalization: they make money as capital flows in, as it flows out, and in the restructuring that occurs in the resulting havoc.
He was let out from time to time, but under guard like a zoo animal, to go to some spa or to play solitary holes of golf, one of the many manifestations of “bourgeois liberalization” that his reform efforts allowed to leak through China’s once hermetic seal.
Labor-market
liberalization
in pursuit of competitiveness and growth is crucial – and remains to be implemented.
For the most part, center-right, democratically elected governments replaced the military dictatorships, and they exchanged the previous economic paradigm – import substitution, state intervention, and overregulation – for the Washington Consensus, which called for fiscal discipline, price stability, trade and financial liberalization, privatization, and deregulation.
Trade
liberalization
would function like a tax cut, raising income and improving efficiency without requiring the government to increase the budget deficit.
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