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On economic policy, he has offered reform in exchange for investment.
Clinton has also inched toward Sanders’s position on financial-system reform, as his attacks on her for taking large donations and speaking fees from Wall Street have clearly struck a chord among young voters.
That is why Republican candidates – for the presidency, the House, and the Senate – want to roll back President Barack Obama’s tax and spending increases, expensive health-care reform, and regulatory overreach.
Macron and his economic team are full of promising ideas, and he will have a huge majority in the National Assembly to implement them (though it will help if the Germans give him leeway on budget deficits in exchange for reform).
In Spain, too, economic reform is translating into stronger long-term growth.
Reform of SOEs around the world is polarized around two extremes.
China provides the other extreme, postponing SOE reform for as long as possible even though the economy was growing fast, with the market taking root in most parts of Chinese life.
Stealthy reform of SOEs, however, is now ongoing.
Indeed, few local leaders reported what they were doing, one reason why few people are aware of how extensive this effort at SOE reform has been.
From the start of China's economic reform the saying "do it without saying it" has been the rule.
The major achievement of China's 17 years of institutional reform and economic growth has been the growth of a dynamic non-state sector consisting of private firms, self-employed businesses, corporate joint-ventures with foreign capital, and community owned rural enterprises.
Managerial changes in SOEs began early on in the reform process, with decisionmaking decentralized and inter-firm relations put on a more commercial footing.
Ownership change was ruled off the reform agenda, however, reflecting not only ideological principles but, mainly, the desire to keep SOEs under the state's control.
Resistance to reform could for a time be justified, so long as: 1 firms in the state sector retained a profitable position in a region's economy; 2. the mobility of state employees remained low; and 3, the non-state sector was not strong enough in both financial terms and entrepreneurial capability to take over the vast state sector.
Such numbers mean that effective reform policies are gaining a constituency within the state sector.
But a new form of political correctness is making reform difficult.
What is needed is a reform that responds to today's international order and updates the increasingly obsolete and ignored body of international law to today's new economic and political realities.
But the UN is not likely to reform itself from within.
Such proposals might spur further reform of the UN itself.
Once in power, the DPJ will immediately confront the massive bureaucracy and entrenched mandarins, which usually sabotage any efforts at administrative reform that threatens their power and vested interests.
Unfortunately, the DPJ scrapped an LDP-sponsored civil-service reform bill, which would have allowed the DPJ to replace mandarins with an army of political appointees.
It is time to reform our perverse global energy system – beginning by resolving to leave coal and other fossil fuels where they are.
When Hong Kong was formally handed back to China 17 years ago, some optimists thought that the former colony’s greater freedoms would help to reform the rest of China.
A military elite favors step-by-step reform, but wants to protect its position and is determined to avoid a descent into chaos.
That consensus will remain credible as long as political reform continues and economic growth accelerates.
This will enable low real interest rates, which (together with bank reform) is the main condition for the growth of small and medium-sized enterprises needed to diversify the economic structure and ensure a more stable pattern of growth.
He was wrong to assume that French voters elected him to reform the EU.
But he made matters worse by leading his reform efforts with labor-market deregulation and a reduction of the wealth tax.
In anticipation of Putin’s victory, Gref’s Center for Strategic Research invited experts to develop two programs – one focused on the economy and the other on public administration reform – based on one fundamental directive: Don’t complicate things.
Managing unrest through repression is more difficult than in the past, as rapid urbanization, economic reform, and social change roils a country of 1.3 billion people.
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