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In working to promote human rights, political reform, and democratization in China, Liu has made a significant contribution to the values of peace and fraternity among nations that Nobel had in mind when he created the award more than a century ago.
Whether China’s economy can continue to grow rapidly will depend far more on its ability to reform than on how its stock markets perform.
Reform and consolidation measures are being implemented across the EU.
Although there have been limited strikes against French President Emmanuel Macron’s reform agenda, these commentators got it wrong.
When US President Barack Obama could not implement his original vision of health-care reform, he sought to compromise with his opponents by basing the reform on a plan developed by a conservative think tank and implemented in Massachusetts by former Governor Mitt Romney, Obama’s opponent in last year’s presidential election.
But, when it comes to reform in the Arab world, Western observers have usually implied that reformers need to be revolutionaries, democratizing their systems quickly, heedless of others’ concerns and fears.
His approach – to convince bureaucrats, opposition-party leaders, and the general public to support gradual reform – may seem to reflect cautious conservative timidity, but it has enabled the long-term success of his government’s measures.
The belief that Muslim countries are likely to fall prey to despotism and will fail to reform their political and economic systems partly reflects the legacy of colonialism.
In practice, however, the budget targets will surely be allowed to slip, provided the government carries out its promises on privatization, labor markets, and pension reform.
But the remarkable underlying truth is that each new government endorsed the direction of globalization and market reforms, so much so that the basic reform direction is now a national consensus of virtually every major party.
Today's government won a strong mandate in last autumn's elections, giving it several years to deepen and widen reform.
Next, the Government must lead a massive effort of reform.
Several other areas of reform – in finance, labor markets, foreign investment, tax reform – await action.
The new parliament would then work on constitutional reform.
Moreover, the socialist and the liberal left are divided over whether some progress is better than none, with opponents arguing that half-hearted changes to the constitution would preclude eventual real reform.
We know that progress is possible only with the engagement of civil society, which has a huge role to play in changing norms, driving policy reform, and providing services.
Even immigration reform – a bipartisan pro-growth issue with considerable support from much of American society – has languished unnecessarily.
In this context, a Franco-German initiative on eurozone reform may well be possible.
Instead, he should take into account the priorities of both Italy, the biggest obstacle to EU reform, and Germany.
The impact of universal access on how health care is paid for is perhaps larger than its impact on health status: the Colombian reform has dramatically reduced the share coming from households.
Out-of-pocket spending on health care today is one-fourth the level of ten years ago, and the reform has at least partly eliminated the old distinction between the insured rich and the uninsured poor.
In fact, when Germany embarked a decade ago on a reform program featuring major cuts to the welfare state and a more flexible labor market, it broke the rules of the eurozone’s Stability and Growth Pact.
Such a reform would also serve as a mechanism of coordination at the international level, since coordinated capital-account regulations by recipient countries would be difficult to achieve.
Successfully concluding the regulatory reform initiatives currently under way is the first imperative.
The spring meetings of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund represent a pivotal moment for shifting the debate toward a second phase of post-crisis reform efforts – one that focuses on ensuring a healthy flow of financing to the real economy.
Meanwhile, the leaders of the eurozone’s northern member countries continue to push for more serious implementation of structural reform.
Yet what of Portugal, Ireland, and (especially) Spain, all of which have taken significant steps toward reform since the crisis?
Yet carbon-tax reform has rarely been implemented, much less on this scale.
We need reform of the international financial institutions and adequate monitoring and surveillance mechanisms.
To be sure, although 2004 was one of the region’s better years in terms of economic growth, the outcome of two decades of so-called structural reform remains disappointing.
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