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China’s reform process can succeed only if it is pushed from the top and the bottom.
A revenue-neutral reform of business taxes, for example, could raise the level of output with no meaningful impact on the distribution of income.
The hoped-for break with the past did not occur, as political infighting among the country’s new leaders blocked the implementation of any serious reform agenda.
The election on Sunday must give rise to a government that is truly determined to bring radical reform to the country.
And the agreement with the EU must be used to drive the reform process forward.
If this agenda succeeds, the Kremlin’s revisionist bid will be blocked; as this becomes apparent, there might even be an opening for a new and urgently needed wave of reform in Russia itself.
But if reform fails, there is little doubt that the Kremlin will continue its policies until it reaches its aims in Kyiv.
To be sure, the muted impact of inflation on interest rates is not surprising in transition economies, where the mechanisms of monetary-policy transmission and financial intermediation took long periods to put in place and still need reform and regulation.
But they should learn from Iran’s revolution that their means of agitating for political reform are relevant to the political ends they hope to achieve.
Romney went even further, claiming that Obama planned to raise taxes by $4,000 on middle-income taxpayers; that Obama planned “to gut welfare reform by dropping work requirements”; and that Chrysler, bailed out by the Obama administration, was moving all of its Jeep production to China.
But a minority government forced to muster coalitions of the willing to address the critical issues confronting Germany and Europe could escape the constraints of Michel’s expectations, freeing German politics from party tacticians and enabling real and much-needed reform.
Pursuing this option implies that the EU should push for progress in trade talks with Japan, negotiate an investment agreement with China, modernize the EU-Mexico Global Agreement, and position itself as a world leader on tax reform.
In recent times, he opposed all of President Barack Obama’s major domestic legislation, including the economic stimulus package, health-care reform, and financial-services regulation, and has consistently supported anti-abortion legislation.
France responded with calls for monetary reform that would end the peculiar role of the dollar and tried to revive the largely discredited gold standard.
State and local reform movements are focused on four structural threats to democracy: gerrymandering; poorly designed primary processes; money in politics; and legislative procedures that impede compromise.
A third necessary reform concerns money in politics.
There is little reason to believe that Congress will reform itself.
Not only will politicians’ influence be towards monetary excess, which of course is a serious enough matter for a bank whose primary mandate is price stability, but also the excess will constitute a serious barrier to structural reform, which is essential for European prosperity in a competitive global economy.
Increasingly, Europe’s politicians regard excess liquidity and economic reform as substitutes for one another.
The more the bank gives on liquidity, the less the politicians will do on reform.
In particular, the stubborn Dutchman understood the extreme danger if Europe’s top monetary authority became too cozy with Europe’s politicians, especially at a time when many EU finance ministers view economic reform and excess liquidity as being essentially the same thing.
Unable to reform their labor markets because of the fear of street protests, French governments of all political stripes seek to protect their ailing firms, only to face limits imposed by the rules of the Common Market.
To ensure continued momentum, we – the leaders of 14 nations from regions around the world – have formed a network to promote comprehensive reform of the UN.
Furthermore, we agree that revamping the Security Council is an essential element of our overall effort to reform the UN, and we support early action to make the Council more broadly representative, efficient, and transparent, bearing in mind that the General Assembly is to review progress on this matter by the end of 2005.
One important impediment to policy reform, on the part of both governments and central banks, is analytical.
What sort of democratic reform, then, might be envisaged?
Of course, there would be some big gainers from agricultural reform, but they are chiefly consumers and taxpayers in rich countries.
And if that narrative fuels a populist victory in March, reform of the banking sector will again be postponed, raising the eventual cost still further.
Yet it is difficult to reform because of the dependencies it creates.
Nonetheless, North Korea has shown little interest in reform.
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