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This is not to say that ambitious reform is not good, or is not warranted to sustain growth for the next decade.
Redeeming the United NationsFor a United Nations official to discuss reform of the international system is rather like an Englishman talking about the weather: it is a staple of daily conversation, but it always seems that real change remains just over the horizon.
On Wednesday, 166 heads of state and government will gather in New York for a summit that we hope will take the reform process a major step forward.
Ambassadors in New York are now working day and night to hammer out the details of the current reform proposals.
Today’s reform imperatives can be traced to international divisions over the Iraq war.
Any reform that promises better information management – like improved patient records systems – would be worth considering.
The lesson from that earlier period is that whenever the national mood finally shifts toward economic and democratic reform, local communities around the country will already have developed a blueprint for action.
Other similar efforts include the cross-partisan coalition Patriots and Pragmatists and the National Association of Non-Partisan Reformers, which are laying the groundwork for a bottom-up reform movement across the country.
Baroness Emma Nicholson, the European Parliament’s special envoy to Romania, has warned that unless Romania’s next government speeds the pace of reform - particularly privatization of big state companies - hopes of joining the EU will collapse.
Iliescu’s first term were years that the locusts ate: reform lagged behind most Central European countries, corruption flourished, rabid nationalists barked, the government called in loyalist thugs from the mines to beat up people who protested.
Poland’s and Hungary’s postcommunists could see that reform worked and so, back in power, continued on the free-ish market road, taking credit for the economic growth nurtured by their rivals.
But Iliescu’s first government dithered on reform; growth was a dream when Constantinescu became president.
Indeed, Romania’s reformers confronted conditions that the Polish, Hungarian, and Russian reform governments had faced when communism first collapsed.
What remains unknown is whether they have learned the lesson other postcommunist parties learned - ie, to keep reform going once growth appears.
Adrian Nastase, the PDSR’s executive president and its candidate for prime minister, seems to lean toward reform.
One sign that he actually will institute reform will be demonstrated by whether or not the PDSR governs alone or in coalition with a centrist/liberal party or with the Hungarian minority party.
They support the almost two decades of reform that have stripped away much of the “license raj.”
Two big issues remain for government, in addition to keeping reform moving forward.
The US wants to resolve the global crisis by providing substantially more financial help, which Europe is refusing to commit, preferring to focus on financial regulatory reform.
It is no accident that religious reform in Scandinavia, Germany, England, the Netherlands, and the United States gave rise to today’s global capitalism.
And the world is still waiting for the US to implement a 2010 reform of the IMF that would strengthen the position of China and other large emerging economies in the institution’s governance structure.
The task facing Pisani-Ferry and Enderlein is to create a new reform strategy for Europe’s two largest economies, focusing on structural reforms in France and increased investment in Germany.
The Commission now has until the end of this month to determine whether France has pursued reform diligently enough to avoid penalties for breaking its pledge to cut its budget deficit to less than 3% of GDP by next year.
An effective reform strategy would have to balance the need for budget restraint and macroeconomic stability with growth-enhancing policies.
EU financial integration began in earnest in the 1980’s, and the European Commission and European Council made great strides in financial-sector reform.
Even Britain, an enduring opponent of EU institutions for financial regulation, may decide that its own interests as Europe’s financial hub would be better served by reform.
The measures that he has introduced since coming to power – from pension reform to combating tax evasion – have displayed the rigor and transparency that one associates with northern European countries.
This applies particularly to reform of the country’s calcified labor-market rules.
The ongoing negotiations over reform confirm that Italy remains a prisoner of political polarization.
The first reform to be enacted is a big cut in the number and income of national and regional politicians and of top civilian and military bureaucrats, who in many cases are the best paid in the world.
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