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But if the initial approach to financial reform doesn’t work, we face the prospect of another financial crisis every bit as serious as the last.
Medium-term fiscal reform, for its part, will be pushed by bond-market vigilantes.
But financial reform is too technical for non-specialists.
There are also inconsistencies between the US and the EU in derivatives-market reform, which the Financial Stability Board has warned could undermine the objectives, set out by the G-20, of greater standardization of contracts and enhanced transparency.
An historical addiction to cheap gasoline, and opposition to energy reform as “un-American,” has fueled an obsession with drilling, damming, and digging the country’s way out of problems.
The American made a firm, explicit and apparently sincere commitment to lobby as strongly as possibly for what he calls “comprehensive immigration reform” and what in Mexico is commonly known as “the whole enchilada.”
Third, and perhaps most importantly, Bush has to finally achieve the immigration reform he has promised for so long.
As environments deteriorate from climate change, toxification, and loss of biodiversity and ecosystem services, people will have less time and energy for governance reform aimed at reducing inequality or preserving the environment.
Indeed, boosting domestic private investment through corporate tax reform seems the best option.
The Secretary General has submitted a reasonable reform plan, but a majority of UN member states, acting together as the so-called G-77, are balking, because they regard it as another step in reducing the authority of the General Assembly relative to the Security Council.
Failure of the current proposal would mean an effective end to all efforts to reform the UN, with disastrous consequences for people across the world who depend on the aid provided by the UN Development Program, the security provided by the UN’s numerous peacekeeping operations, or the myriad other services rendered by UN agencies.
For example, failure of management reform would fuel demands by the US Congress to withhold America’s contributions to the UN budget – a policy that would greatly undermine America’s own interests, such as the planned expansion of the mission to stop genocide in Darfur.
It is no exaggeration to say that the Moroccan women’s movement has become the cutting edge of reform, engaging Islamization, modernization, democratization, and feminism.
Is the US prepared to go along with a reform of the international monetary system that reduces the dollar’s role?
But genuinely beneficial agricultural reform would need to go further than merely transforming export subsidies into other types of subsidies, because many supposedly non-distorting subsidies lead to more output, which hurts producers in developing countries by lowering prices.
The most important competition issue for developing countries, however, is reform of dumping duties.
While still able to exploit the scope for catch-up growth, emerging economies must undertake continuous, rapid, and at times difficult structural change, along with a parallel process of reform and institution building.
National leaders maintained control through repression and used Islamic opposition parties as scarecrows to avoid political reform.
I would suggest several measures, both to reduce the risks of catastrophic feedback loops in the short term and to maximize the benefits of reform in the long term.
In Islamic tradition, reform of Sharia results from an Ijtijad, a creative and intellectual effort to apply Islamic law to new circumstances.
Corruption is decreasing and judicial reform has started.
Moldova’s lack of success at reform was partly the result of Russian-supported secessionist movements.
The concept of “structural reform” usually refers to measures aimed at boosting economic growth by sharpening market signals and restoring the health of public finances.
But the strengthening of institutions in areas that promote social inclusion is also a form of structural reform, in this case aimed at maximizing the contribution of growth to broad living standards and strengthening its resilience.
Another approach is to reform the bureaucracy and make it an honest and competent civil service.
These reform strategies will undermine the bureaucratic power and reduce corruption.
Similarly, in trade reform, capital markets reform, land reform, market participants are pushing for less regulation.
Whereas Abdullah at least talked about reform (though with no real consequences), Naif can barely bring himself to utter the word.
Throughout the region, newly mobilized (and thus empowered) Arab youth are trying to move their countries towards reform and liberalization.
This would operate much like the bipartisan National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform, established in 2010 to address America’s fiscal challenges, or the military-base-closing commissions of the 1980s and 1990s.
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