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Such a new platform should also be used to work towards structural reform of the international monetary system aimed at reducing its excessive reliance on the US dollar as a reserve currency.
Perhaps the most notable consequence of Spain’s recent reform efforts is its current-account surplus – the country’s first in more than two decades.
At the same time, pension reform – including adjustments in how benefits are indexed to inflation – will ease some of the pressure on the public budget.
The risk now is a relapse into reform fatigue.
While a slowdown in the pace of reform might bring temporary relief, it would almost certainly reverse Spain’s hard-won achievements.
To the detriment of the reform process in Eastern Europe, Marxist ideas are not as dead as they may seem.
Hence, liberals have argued that private property is the key to economic reform.
Hence, the Russian reformers focused on land reform - which is very difficult - rather than the total liberalization of agricultural trade - which is much easier.
Lingering Marxist ideas are a dangerous barrier to understanding the reform process and the working of a capitalistic market economy.
Optimists point to the package’s ambitious goals as evidence of Xi’s commitment to reform, while critics cite its vagueness and lack of a specific timetable as grounds for caution.
Here, land reform will be the most difficult issue.
Given that Xi has ruled out mobilizing the Chinese public to support his reform plans, his only means of forcing the bureaucracy to comply with his agenda is the threat of corruption investigations and prosecutions.
With his political future depending on his ability to deliver on his reform promises, the last thing Xi needs is a foreign-policy distraction – let alone a disastrous military misadventure.
There is, however, an elephant in the room: the need for eurozone governance reform.
At the moment, eurozone reform talks are not a priority for leaders in France, Germany, or anywhere else.
And herein lies the most important principle that must guide eurozone governance reform: changes must be pursued alongside political reforms that strengthen the legitimacy of decisions involving risk sharing among countries.
Another risk is that reform attempts could provoke a political backlash that would be harmful to long-term investment.
One view holds that the problem lies in the strategy of economic reform that Russia adopted after 1991.
Some people argue that Russia reformed "too fast," that it should have adopted a gradualist reform strategy, something like that pursued by China.
Russia (and the other countries of the region, including Poland) had to proceed much more decisively with state enterprise reform and privatization.
Russia, by contrast, failed to reform, and has descended farther and farther into corruption and decay.
The reform efforts by the OECD, acting at the request of the G-20, represent welcome attempts to address so-called “base erosion and profit shifting” (BEPS), but they do not go far enough.
We believe that the world has an unprecedented opportunity to bring about significant reform of the international corporate-taxation system that serves the global public interest, rather than national advantage.
To help induce world leaders to take advantage of this opportunity, the ICRICT has issued a set of recommendations for reform of the rules and institutions governing international corporate-taxation.
A first step toward achieving these objectives would be the establishment of an intergovernmental body with the mandate and resources to push through much-needed tax reform, while promoting stronger tax cooperation among governments.
Such a globally representative forum on taxation should not only serve as a venue for inter-governmental cooperation; it should also support a broader, more inclusive debate on tax reform.
Bush must begin to use what political capital he has left to support enlightened immigration reform, along the lines of the Kennedy-McCain bill.
No immigration deal is feasible north of the border without addressing security matters; south of the border, there is no conceivable Mexican cooperation on border security or on a Temporary Workers Program if immigration reform ignores the nearly five million Mexican citizens without papers currently living in the US.
The best imaginable deal between the US and Mexico, or the best imaginable US immigration reform, will not eliminate the flow of undocumented migrants from Mexico and South America overnight.
The government could, for example, double welfare payments to households whose male heads stay home, threaten to revoke land reform rights after years of absence in rural communities, and establish choke points on highways at the Tehuantepec Isthmus.
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