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This implies that anti-discrimination and egalitarian movements need to broaden their focus to include electoral reform, better financial regulation, transparent privatization, and, above all, an overhaul of the education system to ensure high-quality schools for the poor and pre-school nutrition and health care.
In his titanic efforts to stem decline and
reform
America, Obama has shown vision and talent, but he also learned the hard way that, as Henry Kissinger put it in his memoirs, the pledges of new administrations are almost invariably like “leaves on a turbulent sea.”
His health-care
reform
plan, as the Massachusetts vote demonstrated, is perceived as a personal obsession and an entirely unnecessary distraction from much more urgent and vital concerns, such as the financial crisis and unemployment.
Attempts to
reform
the system only highlighted its vulnerabilities.
As a result, all legislation can be threatened by the oppositions veto, blocking any
reform
that harms the opposition's constituents.
Postponing fiscal reform, besides being blatantly unfair, simply is not sustainable.
Their complaints were many: the government's land
reform
law, its oil policy, poor record on corruption, politicization and militarization of the public sector, disrespect for unions and other institutions, support for guerrillas in Colombia and for Fidel Castro, illegal arming of militants, hostility to the US, and threats to free speech.
British efforts to
reform
the education system – including Thomas Macaulay’s initiative to make English the language of instruction – and create a native administration benefited almost exclusively the upper middle classes, whose members already had access to basic education.
This system had been abandoned elsewhere, and the
reform
opened London to new types of institutions, especially the major US investment banks.
Defeated parties will be tempted to take to the streets and block attempts at
reform.
Knowledge for ProgressLONDON – Some 236 years ago, a young governor from the American state of Virginia broke the mold on education
reform.
Finally, governments and aid agencies must abandon market-based experiments, and commit to genuine system-wide
reform.
That means abandoning the investment-driven growth model, promoting deep monetary and financial reform, boosting investment efficiency and resource allocation, and improving the government’s functioning.
Paradoxically, the apparently discontinuous and contradictory nature of the “era of
reform
and opening” may actually help explain how China’s boom came about.
While this will affect only around 10 million couples – a small number in a country of more than 1.3 billion people – the
reform
represents a gigantic step toward ending the one-child rule.
But the third plenum also provided surprises, including the creation of a leading group within the CCP to steer
reform.
China used to have a
reform
commission within the executive branch; the establishment of the leading group indicates the CCP’s commitment, and that of President Xi Jinping, to comprehensive
reform.
For example, there was no clear mention of further SOE
reform.
This is related to the final document’s most significant lacuna: political
reform.
The need for
reform
is greatest in countries like Nigeria and Ghana, where food expenditures are high and food-industry pressure is most pronounced.
As leaders in emerging-market countries have recognized, falling oil prices represent the best opportunity to implement
reform.
For the US and other advanced countries, it is also a good time for
reform
from a macroeconomic standpoint.
This may lead to suppression of pressure from below for economic
reform
and opening.
Incumbent leaders must have the proper incentives to initiate gradual processes of
reform.
The fight against terrorism, which requires short-term successes, must be differentiated from the long-term process of
reform.
Of course, America's economic support for political
reform
would be welcome.
So it is in the countries of the Eastern Europe of today – and the two decades of
reform
experiences that have brought them to where they are – that we should seek parallels with North Africa.
Key constituencies for political and economic
reform
in Central and Eastern Europe have been private small and medium-size firms and younger age cohorts.
Italy and Spain are clearly constrained by the absence of private capital in their respective sovereign-debt markets, with rising yields threatening their fiscal stability and
reform
programs.
They have imbued
reform
efforts with a degree of urgency that has had a far-reaching impact; indeed, conventional GDP data do not reflect the scale of the transformation that they are driving.
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