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The United States, which ran the occupation, was keen to reform Japanese society in such a way that another war would be unthinkable.
Unfortunately, such programs largely lack the visibility and influence needed to shape educational reform.
The global economy faces tremendous trials in the coming years: growth, employment, and distributional challenges in many advanced and developing countries; far-reaching institutional reform in Europe; the complex middle-income transition in China; and the continuing need to reduce poverty worldwide.
And economies – especially Europe – need to work actively to reform a tired system of multilateral governance that increasingly lacks credibility.
With the Arab Spring, regional public opinion has shifted toward prioritizing civil rights and democratic reform over foreign policy.
The full extent of the French system’s pathology becomes fully clear in the light of successive governments’ attempts at reform, with piecemeal measures the norm – and thus proving counter-productive on balance, or failing altogether.
But evolutionary progress is always preferable to revolutionary upheaval, and, despite all the difficulties of genuine incremental reform, the prospects are not absolutely hopeless.
But the dynamic of all reform is clinched when even weighty arguments succumb to the urgency of change.
In countries like Thailand, Indonesia, and the Philippines, environmental protest has helped spur political reform.
Many of China’s leading environmentalists are former students and intellectual leaders from the Tiananmen protests of 1989 who believe that environmental activism offers an avenue for advancing broader political reform.
This shared commitment to systemic reform is putting China’s government to the test.
China’s leaders recognize that their policy options are limited: business as usual, repression, or reform.
The third option is to use environmental protection to justify moving China ahead with real political reform sooner rather than later.
The War on “Democratization”The wars in Lebanon and Gaza constitute a grave threat to democratic reform in the southern Mediterranean.
As a result, Arab nationalist governments feel justified in resisting serious political reform and vindicated in repressing all domestic opposition, particularly the swelling Islamist movements.
Moreover, just when we were beginning to think that the Iraqi tragedy had made the limits of unilateralism and preemptive military strategies clear to all, the Bush administration encourages Israel’s military action – this time against a country that has painfully been attempting to consolidate democratic reform and to reafirm its sovereignty in relation to Syria .
But Leviathan's bleak portrait of contemporary Russian life actually confirms many of the reasons why Americans have been largely dubious about Russia's ability to reform following communism's collapse.
All of this changed in 2008, when a legislative reform allowed the Fed to pay interest on excess reserves.
These include repealing the 2011 pensions reform and creating a “citizen’s income” which, if poorly designed or implemented, will result in more people falling into inactivity.
As a result, any reform of regulation and supervision will fail to control bubbles and excesses unless several other fundamental aspects of the financial system are changed.
Don’t Follow America on Health CareTORONTO – With the United States Supreme Court set to begin considering the Affordable Care Act (the historic health-care reform derided by opponents as “Obamacare”), it is worth noting that the number of Americans without health insurance reached an all-time high in 2010, the year the law was enacted.
Without reform of the type now before the Supreme Court, total US health expenditures will rise from 16% of GDP today to 25% by 2025.
But his main policy initiatives for corporate tax reform and infrastructure spending remain on the drawing board.
Just a couple of weeks before Memon’s execution, India’s Law Commission, a government body composed of retired judges and legal experts that works for legal reform, organized consultations to assess the effectiveness of the provisions governing the death penalty in India and the purpose of the penalty itself.
So, is the Commission right that the government should move quickly on reform and disregard the consequences?
Saudi Arabia’s Theater of ReformHaving raised expectations for real political reform in Saudi Arabia, King Abdullah has instead announced that the time for change has not yet arrived.
For the past year and a half, they were anticipating a cabinet reshuffle intended to enhance the king’s reputation as a keen advocate of reform.
Instead, a crippling malaise has engulfed the Kingdom, as Saudi Arabia’s peculiar inertia has produced idle talk of reform that cannot mask the realities of stagnation.
The irony is that while King Abdullah has energetically taken on a leading role in the region’s turbulent affairs, he seems unable to respond to Saudi Arabia’s acute lag in democratic reform in comparison to neighbors like Jordan and the Gulf states.
Why are the Wahhabi clerics, the main opponents of reform and progress, continually indulged as the Kingdom’s de facto co-rulers?
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