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As a result, it has become urgent to remember that it was the later Victorians who recognized modernity’s moral dimension, originating almost every kind of public reform that we now take for granted as the mark of a civilized society.
An efficient supply-side response to this large and growing source of demand requires regulatory reform in many services, including finance, product safety, transport, and logistics.
So the entire fiscal system is a crucial item on China’s reform agenda, especially management of public capital.
Fiscal reform will determine many things: the components of domestic income and demand that will drive structural change on the supply side, the allocation of income and expenditure across levels of government, and the embedded incentives that this allocation implies.
Outside of China, this part of the reform agenda is the least well understood.
Watching for progress on these key elements of structural change and reform seems to be the right stance.
If markets are confused or pessimistic about China’s longer-term agenda, but if the direction of structural change and reform is positive, there may be investment opportunities that were absent in the more exuberant recent past.
They are able to resist all meaningful reform that could really change their compensation schemes.
None of this bodes well for a serious program of eurozone reform, which would have to include a genuine banking union, a limited fiscal union, and much stronger mechanisms of democratic accountability.
Fresh thinking about structural reform is needed, too.
For decades, reform discussions in the EU have focused on reducing labor-market regulation, cutting red tape in product markets, privatizing state-owned enterprises, and lowering tax rates.
But reform should now work with the grain of efforts to bolster demand – for example, unleashing the silver economy, fostering digital education and innovation, and unlocking urban land markets to pave the way for much-needed investment in housing.
But that window will close fast, because beneficiaries of specific reform policies have morphed into vested interests, which are fighting hard to protect what they have.
So once again, the dialectics of economic development has brought political reform back to the fore.
In the coming years, in areas such as climate change, global imbalances, and reform of the international monetary system, China should and will play a more active role as a major global stakeholder.
This reform should be packaged with a careful evaluation of the regulatory climate for business, designed to eliminate or streamline the rules.
Of course, not all programs are successful, but some effective cases of procurement and revenue reform have benefits 100 times higher than the costs.
Latin America is currently experiencing a backlash against privatization, a trend that highlights the importance of public-sector reform.
Bureaucratic and judicial reform ought to have priority in most countries in Latin America.
Several economists, including Lawrence Summers and Paul Krugman, have warned that structural reform to increase productivity might be counterproductive when central banks are paralyzed, precisely because it lowers prices.
The passage of libel reform is attributable to a campaign launched more than three years ago by three organizations: English PEN, a writers association;Index on Censorship, a bimonthly journal that has monitored censorship worldwide and published the works of censored writers for the past four decades; and Sense About Science, an organization that promotes scientific knowledge and understanding.
The targeting of scientific journals and scientists for exposing charlatans was a leading factor in generating public support for reform of the UK’s libel law.
The scientists, writers, and anti-censorship activists who led the campaign were assisted in Parliament by Lord Lester, a well-known British civil liberties lawyer, who introduced a Private Members’ Bill in 2010, and eventually by endorsement of reform by all three major political parties.
Economists can help by testing which international rules and institutions are needed to reform an inefficient and often inhumane system.
Fifth, we must reform how we manage water resources and water infrastructure, so that this precious resource can be re-used several times, and on a city-wide scale .
This gradualist approach complements Turkey’s principled position on the need for reform in the Arab world, including Syria, with which Turkey shares a 900-kilometer border.
As the Arab Spring unfolds at different speeds in different countries, Turkey continues to urge Arab governments to undertake genuine reform.
Disillusioned ANC members can be strong allies for Ramaphosa’s reform attempts; they were powerful enough to elect him over Zuma’s preferred candidate, his ex-wife and former African Union Commission chair Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma.
These voters are unlikely to turn against the party, thus buffering any existential threat to its dominance at the ballot box and putting a damper on reform efforts.
He has also faced street protests for attempting to reform the labor market – a politically hazardous move that has taken down many previous French governments.
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