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And, while structural reforms are necessary, some measures – for example, labor-market liberalization and pension overhauls – may boost the eurozone’s savings rate and thus weaken aggregate demand further (as occurred in Germany following its structural reforms a decade ago).
If the eurozone unemployment rate is still too high by the end of 2016, annual inflation remains well below the ECB’s 2% target, and fiscal policies and structural reforms exert a short-term drag on economic growth, the only game in town may be continued quantitative easing.
Effective governance of the security sector requires sustained political will at the top of the government, particularly a readiness to push reforms to sectors of the government and economy with which the security sector interacts.
Likewise, a Chinese government think tank worked with the World Bank to produce the China 2030report, which outlines the structural reforms needed to strengthen the foundations of the country’s market-based economy and create a climate of open innovation.
Now those who have benefited most from the current system are blocking badly needed reforms.
Those woes are real, but Japan’s ongoing national-security reforms and participation in the new 12-country Trans-Pacific Partnership have placed it firmly on the path to reinventing itself as a more secure, competitive, and internationally engaged country.
Indeed, reforms that enable Japan to defend itself better, including by building mutually beneficial regional partnerships, would enhance its capacity to forestall the emergence of a destabilizing power imbalance in East Asia.
Reforms that cost little or no money, such as improving the quality of primary and secondary education, have been shown to encourage growth while ameliorating inequality.
Even reforms that cost more – like expanding preschool education in the United States – generate economic benefits that far exceed the tax losses associated with funding them.
A revised and reinforced International Monetary Fund package is imperative if the necessary reforms are to be enacted.
For all these reasons, the institutional reforms that are contained in the constitutional treaty are still urgently needed.
Rather than using the oil windfall to pay for long-overdue reforms in health care, education, and utilities – and thus helping to ensure the macroeconomic stability needed to sustain rapid long-term growth – President Vladimir Putin has chosen large spending increases for public wages and pensions.
In order to reverse these trends, China needs to implement democratic reforms aimed at checking abuses of power.
Already, many states and cities are adopting reforms to encourage political compromise and improve democratic governance.
Better yet, some of these reforms have national implications, because they will clean up the process by which members of Congress are elected.
But as California has shown, structural barriers to good governance can be eliminated through citizen-driven reforms.
But if the movement for progressive federalism continues to gain momentum and push through meaningful state- and local-level reforms, federal lawmakers will not be able to maintain the status quo indefinitely.
They fear the future, because the future means either market-oriented reforms or further economic and political downgrading, both of which are seen as unacceptable, if only because they clash with French self-esteem.
Havel described the economic system created by Klaus’s post-communist reforms as “mafioso capitalism.”
In the aftermath of the global financial crisis, the United Nations Commission of Experts on Reforms of the International Monetary and Financial System urged that we design an efficient and fair system for the restructuring of sovereign debt.
The new government that voters will most likely elect in September will be confronted with the difficult task of confronting Germans with reality and pushing through the necessary reforms.
Fundamental civil rights must be established, supported by deep changes in the education system, reforms of family law, and a more open space for media and culture.
Putin fits the desired mould for a firmness and stolidity that ensures stability, a strong state, and a "golden middle" between radical reforms and strong-arm rule.
Renzi, too, pursued limited reforms, but eventually fell prey to his own outsize ego.
For the uncompetitive parts of the eurozone, structural reforms can no longer be postponed.
But it is also disturbing how Russia’s history of electoral meddling has become an excuse for Swedish leaders to ignore much-needed reforms.
Political and economic reforms over the past decade were supposed to lead the country out of chronic economic crisis.
The next stage of reforms in Argentina, and in countries in similar positions, should focus on fostering society’s educational, scientific, and technological capacities.
Western governments can help with common-sense reforms.
Anyone who believes in the European project should hope that further reforms follow soon.
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