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This past autumn, IMF members endorsed the G-20’s proposals, and asked the Fund to address four key reform areas – the so called “Istanbul Decisions” – in 2010: the IMF’s mandate, the Fund’s financing role, governance, and multilateral surveillance.
BERKELEY – The silly season that is a presidential election campaign in the United States has taken a particularly absurd turn as the candidates offer their proposals for monetary-policy reform.
Why such proposals appeal to the candidates and potential voters is no mystery.
Thus, we have proposals by Republican candidates Ted Cruz, Rand Paul, and Mike Huckabee to require the Fed to maintain a fixed dollar price of gold.
To call these actual proposals is a bit generous.
Proposals for a “Taylor rule” are more serious, if only because such a rule, first described by Stanford University economist John Taylor, links the policy interest rate to just such a representative basket of goods and services, namely the consumer price index, while adjusting for the rate of unemployment.
Some of the reform proposals by Bernie Sanders, a contender for the Democratic nomination, also deserve to be taken seriously.
Other proposals by Sanders are more dubious.
The Market is the Cure for Europe’s Health SystemsNot even Germany’s great success in hosting the recently concluded World Cup competition could shield Angela Merkel’s government from the wrath of the German public for its disappointing healthcare reform proposals.
Trump’s campaign has been marked by bellicose nationalism and anti-immigrant proposals – from the construction of a massive wall to keep out immigrants to a ban on all Muslims from entering the US – as well as reckless criticisms of America’s relations with friends and foes alike.
Furthermore, some proposals entail no additional funds.
Some worthwhile new risk-management proposals include advance commitments for new vaccines, subsidies to drug manufacturers to make their products more affordable, and regionally pooled catastrophe insurance.
But some recent proposals promise to raise far more resources for sustainable development.
Already, multiple reform proposals are circulating, including a ballot initiative to amend Proposition 13 that would dramatically ease existing restrictions on commercial-property taxes.
As political moderates have been pushed out, policy gridlock has worsened, with presidential initiatives routinely blocked by congressional Republicans, even when such proposals were consistent with Republican ideas.
The use of anonymous peer review to assess proposals and allocate financial support for scientific research is increasingly achieving recognition around the world.
Most major countries now have some kind of agency that issues general calls for proposals and uses peer review to evaluate them.
Smaller countries face difficulties in ensuring anonymity: the number of qualified scientists within a specific field may be so small that researchers can easily guess who reviews which proposals, and powerful figures can retaliate for negative evaluations of their unpromising research ideas.
Modeled after the NSF, it would augment the science foundations of individual European countries, creating a much larger research organization - one that draws from a larger pool of proposals.
In fact, paranoid bloggers and self-styled consumer advocates are all part of the workings of the broader market, which includes not just companies and activists, but also pundits and politicians, each with proposals to address perceived dangers.
It would not be wise to scorn this diagnosis, to which Rodrik himself subscribes (at least in part), just because one dislikes the proposals put forward by Trump and some of the Conservative proponents of Brexit.
Whether one agrees with the recent proposals made by Ann Krueger, the IMF's deputy managing director, is not the issue: the fact is that the IMF now recognizes the potential conflict of interest, and has proposed alternative procedures that might deal with the problem.
Regrettably, the US Treasury immediately threw cold water on the proposals.
The fact that America can veto even these modest IMF proposals illustrates a fundamental weakness of current international economic arrangements.
At the time, Macron’s proposals received an icy response in Germany; seven months later, Germany still hasn’t offered any of its own.
Nobody expects Germany to adopt Macron’s proposals wholesale.
Restricting the legitimate defense of religious freedom to rejecting proposals that stop people from practicing their religion makes it possible to resolve many other disputes in which it is claimed that freedom of religion is at stake.
In the European Union, Sweden voted against almost all anti-dumping and other protectionist proposals.
Without real and significant political change, technocratic reform proposals will treat only the symptoms of China’s economic malaise, without addressing its underlying institutional causes.
Like the Republicans’ health-care proposals, their tax plan offers little to struggling middle- and working-class households.
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