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The reforms China needs cannot be accomplished in a slump, or by a large exchange-rate depreciation that deflates the world in a vain effort to turn back the clock to an era of export-led growth that stagnant demand in the West has rendered nonviable.

And while it would be nice if one could magically bring about productivity increases, the island’s real problems call not so much for supply-side reforms as for increased demand.

And European countries facing the need for wrenching structural reforms need to restore social trust at home.

The GAO report also refers to the Dodd-Frank financial reforms of 2010, including the requirement that large bank holding companies create “living wills.”

Re-enter Tharman, who chaired a group appointed by G20 governments to propose international financial reforms (I was also a member).

Yet, according to all public-opinion polls, close to 70% of the French support the demonstrators who are taking to the streets to block the very modest reforms introduced by President Nicolas Sarkozy’s government.

But that is merely an alibi that allows the French to claim that they have nothing against reform in principle, but that the reforms being proposed are riddled with injustice.

But, to achieve this, he must encourage reforms that would lead to a strong middle class, which, as can already be seen in Russia’s big cities, opposes Putin’s clientilist “guided democracy” and the massive corruption that comes with it.

The resurgence of crisis conditions, particularly in the eurozone, had halted the resumption of global growth – and provided an added incentive to accelerate domestic reforms.

The fiscal bureaucracy, too, is being modernized, with the deployment of electronic tax notifications and other administrative reforms boosting revenue collection while diminishing the size of the informal economy.

There are no easy and quick fixes to education – every US president since Gerald Ford in the mid-1970’s has called for educational reforms, with little effect.

The Brazilian and Russian economies are contracting;South Africa’s growth has slowed; and India, though maintaining relatively strong growth, must undertake important reforms.

Over the last decade we moved from complete aversion to the idea of reform to a policy of mutant reforms pursued for corrupt motives, to the gradual adaptation of legitimate Western practices.

Should this popular and judicial pressure persist, as seems likely, it could create the conditions in which many other reforms can succeed.

The world's other population giant, India, began its own economic reforms one decade later.

India's reforms have been more gradual, the effects less dramatic at first, but after nearly a decade, India too is making a historical breakthrough.

With further reforms, growth could reach 9% per year, which would produce a rise of per capita income each year of around 7%, enough to double income per person in a decade.

With a country as vast, diverse, and poor as India, and with the temptations to populist sloganeering rather than real economic reforms, India's economic future dynamism is not assured.

Yanukovych, whose campaign relies on financing from the main beneficiaries of the old, corrupt energy system, seems certain to undo these reforms, thus reintroducing grave risks into European energy markets.

To be sure, implementing such reforms will not be easy.

In fact, emerging-economy policymakers could take the lead in advancing financial-market reforms aimed at encouraging green finance.

But Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman is facing too much opposition to his own reforms to side openly with Israel on so emotive an issue as Jerusalem.

Rightly so: enlargement of NATO is not an "expansion" that threatens Russia or other countries which strive for democratic political reforms.

In the meantime, Turkey is moving closer to the EU, with the government overcoming nationalistic objections in the Parliament to push through comprehensive reforms.

To generate the political will that such reforms require, we must confront policymakers’ inertia and inaction with the grim facts of inequality and its devastating effects on our children.

Of course, large multinational banks, which have long benefited from the perception that economies need savings, are likely to resist such reforms.

These reforms, including deeper institutional integration, will be politically difficult and their benefits will take time to become fully apparent; but setting a clear pathway will underpin public confidence in Europe’s long-term growth and cooperation.

We do not underestimate the magnitude of the reforms that Europe has achieved in recent years.

Since the G-20’s meeting at Cannes last November, for example, Europe has increased its financial firewalls by €200 billion ($252 billion), restructured Greek debt, taken steps towards strengthening its banks and banking regulations, established rules for fiscal discipline, and implemented a range of labor- and product-market reforms.

But the magnitude of the challenges confronting Europe implies an urgent need for far more decisive reforms.

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