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If reform legislation reduces Medicaid benefits, the individuals who lose benefits would continue to receive free care in outpatient departments, emergency rooms, and as hospital in-patients.
The Republican Bankruptcy IllusionWASHINGTON, DC – There is now near-unanimity that the United States’ Dodd-Frank financial reform legislation, enacted in 2010, did not end the problems associated with some banks being “too big to fail.”
This is the right approach for those in China's leadership who wish to extract maximum benefits from the WTO to bolster domestic reform.
But Xi’s explicit mention of a “New Era” marks a departure from Deng, indicating that the era of reform is over.
The history of the PRC is further divided into two periods: the Mao era (1949-1976) and the reform era.
Yet, during the PRC’s reform period, it was the tumult of the Mao era that looked like the aberration, even to the CPC, which sought to distance itself from what it called “leftist mistakes.”
Such hopes were revived, to some extent, with the reestablishment of diplomatic relations and, later, the reform era.
As the journalist Jim Mann once argued, it was the expectation of political reform that underlay US interactions with China, even after the massacre in Tiananmen Square in 1989.
Political scientists stopped predicting the CPC’s collapse and began asking instead why the one-party authoritarian state has been so resilient, and whether the period of reform and opening up had come to an end.
So was the reform era yet another aberration in China’s history, not unlike the Republican period?
For example, many think of the reform era, especially the 1980s, as a time of pluralistic political discourse and an increasingly vibrant civil society.
Just as Deng presided over China’s reform and opening up, he presided over the Tiananmen Square massacre.
Learning from ChinaBEIJING – Since beginning its reform and opening up 40 years ago this month, China has been a very good student.
Then Deng Xiaoping initiated China’s reform and opening up, and the country’s own growth miracle began.
But what the Arab region needs are micro-oriented, project-based, and governance-heavy investments conditioned on deep reform of a business environment that is generally considered among the worst in the world.
In a joint report on the competitiveness of the Arab countries, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) and the World Economic Forum call for urgent institutional reform to support private-sector growth.
Military reform has yet to begin.
Reform of the pension system is often attacked as a zero-sum game, in which whatever one person loses another gains.
Italy's recent budget, which neither confronted the pensions issue nor the issue of fiscal reform, demonstrates this fully.
And they should be pursuing immigration reform to overhaul a system that penalizes talent, encourages malfeasance, and, as illustrated by the thousands of migrants who have drowned in the Mediterranean Sea in recent years while trying to reach Europe, often leads to human tragedy.
In the framework developed by the development economist Dani Rodrik, a shortage of capital can be a binding “growth constraint”: the place where “the biggest bang for the [policy] reform buck can be obtained.”
Nevertheless, a dispassionate observer might point out that for someone with limited resources and opportunities for policy reform to keep betting double-or-nothing on neo-liberalism is a strategy that has a well-deserved name: “Gambler’s Ruin.”
In such a scenario, Macron would need to build political coalitions with either the EPP or the S&D, whose views largely align with his vision for EU – and, more important, eurozone – reform.
In fact, like the rule of law, eurozone reform is a key fault line along which political alliances will be established.
The Trump administration is now moving on to tax reform, which will be just as hard, if not harder, to enact.
Beyond tax reform, Trump’s plan to stimulate short-term growth through $1 trillion in infrastructure spending is still not on the horizon.
These policies reflect a remarkable determination to continue on the path of structural reform, despite strong headwinds from the deteriorating external environment and domestic structural adjustments.
This process – characterized by experimentation, assessment, and adjustment – emerged from the CCP’s military experience of the 1930s, was applied by Deng Xiaoping to his reform program in the 1980s, and has been refined by subsequent Chinese leaders.
Indeed, from slashing coal consumption to address air pollution to plans for integrating information technologies with modern manufacturing, the government has shown time and again that it recognizes its reform imperatives.
But there is one important component missing from the government’s reform agenda for 2015: improved bankruptcy procedures for failed borrowers.
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