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As a good lawyer, Obama weighs the pros and cons, aware that it is impossible to do nothing in the Syrian crisis but remaining viscerally disinclined to leap into any foreign entanglement that would distract attention from his agenda of domestic reform.
Third, Latin America needs to reform existing regional bodies, beginning with the Organization of American States, or develop new forms of regional cooperation.
Mexico and Brazil also put in place fixed exchange rates as part of broader reform policies.
Within Taiwan, the debate over constitutional reform has led to disturbing developments.
The ongoing pension reform – both extremely sensitive and of paramount importance for the future of the Greek social-security system – has been the most heated subject of debate.
Broadly speaking, the idea behind the reform is to link future pension increases with the overall performance of the economy.
Such information is both a product and a motor of continuing reform.
Similarly, in the Philippines, a half-million dollars provided to support tax reform generated well over $1 billion in additional tax receipts.
The world has a significant economic, political, and moral interest in the success of China’s reform agenda.
To implement his ambitious reform agenda, Xi has taken several steps to consolidate his personal and bureaucratic power.
Xi’s moves to strengthen his hand have helped to convince observers that he means business with the reform agenda.
That fear is one of the principal forces driving Xi’s reform agenda.
In East European countries, this was a major problem, and it is only through accession negotiations with the European Union that such administrative reform has been assured.
The European Commission has just presented a proposal to reform the Common Fisheries policy designed to help rebuild Europe’s fisheries.
Its strategy of gradual reform, economic modernization, and social development has made the country an oasis of stability in a region rife with violence and strategic rivalries – and thus a reliable partner for Europe and the United States as they seek to influence events in North Africa and across the Middle East.
European officialdom is now responding to these deficits with an initiative to reform and democratize the European Commission.
The IMF Needs a Leader from the Emerging CountriesHorst Kohler's resignation as Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund offers a unique opportunity to reform the embattled international financial institution.
What the IMF needs, as a first step towards comprehensive reform, is a new leader with solid technical training, a broad vision, and first hand experience in dealing with the macroeconomic risks faced by emerging and transition economies.
We stood before a stark alternative: either destroy that social peace by anticommunist witch-hunts or reform the old regime and move ahead to a new era of national peace and economic prosperity.
We chose reform.
The IMF often ruthlessly requires a reform program which, inter alia, increases tax revenues, restricts the printing of money, and frees up international trade and payments.
So the question really is, not one of abolition, but of reform – of renegotiating the Bretton Woods agreements of 1944 (as amended) that gave birth to the IMF, and of setting specific and limited functions for it in the new articles.
One basic reform should be to transform the IMF into a super rating agency, like Standard & Poors or Moodys.
The most significant reform is the introduction of real private ownership of agricultural land, expected this fall.
Limited pension reform has been passed.
The biggest scandal is that reform of the collapsing public health care system is unlikely.
While reform loses prominence, steps are taken in the wrong direction.
Public administration reform is vital, but cannot occur until after the next elections.
None of these forces is frightful, but each may stall reform for the next two years.
Building on this momentum, the campaigns for debt relief, trade reform, and increasing aid to poor countries have gained traction.
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