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The OECD demands a smorgasbord of reforms affecting corporate governance, private insurance markets, competition policy, statistics, health, technology, agriculture, and many other regulatory areas.
Whether any of these reforms nurture a new suite of export industries that can propel Colombia forward is, to put it bluntly, a crapshoot.
But only three times has an Italian vote claimed center stage internationally: in 1948, when the choice was between the West and communism; in 1976, when voters faced a similar choice, between the Christian Democrats and Enrico Berlinguer’s “Eurocommunism”; and now, with the upcoming referendum on constitutional reforms.
Prime Minister Matteo Renzi has staked his political future on the vote, pledging to step down (though not immediately) if the reforms are rejected.
Such an outcome that would irreparably weaken the center-left government coalition as well: Renzi’s Democratic Party (PD) is already roiled by infighting over the reforms.
President Sergio Mattarella is impartial, but he would prefer that the reforms go forward.
His predecessor, Giorgio Napolitano, is also strongly in favor of the reforms, which he says would be “great news for Italy.”
But the reforms have also faced stiff opposition.
Former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, ever the opportunist, is also opposing the reforms.
Instead, opposition to reform is framed as support for better reforms.
After the 2010 eurozone crisis, the debate shifted toward structural reforms.
France advocated for more economic integration, but Germany conditioned any discussion of the eurozone’s future on French structural reforms.
Today, however, France is finally undertaking Germany’s long-expected domestic reforms – and pressing for change at the EU level.
German leaders concede that French reforms are good for France, but now argue that eurozone reform is a separate issue.
In South Korea, Japan, and elsewhere, developing and maximizing women’s potential will require comprehensive education and labor-market reforms, as well as structural change, particularly on the services side of the economy.
Harsh reforms have followed this starvation diet.
In July 2015, world leaders will meet in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, to chart reforms of the global financial system.
It will happen in an uncontrolled way if a controlled devaluation -- coupled with other reforms -- is not undertaken.
That is why France is pursuing reforms.
In the interest of France and its people, we are committed to the reforms needed to realize this vision.
Most importantly, these and other reforms - such as new transportation systems and a public-health system based on family doctors - must be undertaken with the participation of the people affected.
The first misconception is that he desperately sought Chinese aid to prop up his regime in the face of seething discontent after botched currency reforms.
But the central government will need a large share of that income if it is to finance the construction of new institutions of governance, invest in critical infrastructure, undertake onerous reforms aimed at economic liberalization, and provide the resource-poor (and already restive) Sunnis of central Iraq with a greater share of the country’s wealth.
Reforms to alter the boundaries of Congressional districts to make them more competitive would help alleviate this problem, but few incumbent Congressmen will vote for changes that might increase their risk of defeat.
It was not long before some Chinese economists began to categorize the growth pattern brought about three decades ago by Deng Xiaoping’s reforms as “extensive” – and thus problematic.
But empirical research reveals a fundamental problem with this argument: China’s TFP has grown at an average annual rate of nearly 4% since Deng’s reforms began.
This is almost certainly impossible, owing to the gradual diminution of the major drivers – including market-oriented economic reforms, the convergence effect on per capita income, and the adoption of foreign technologies – of China’s extraordinary TFP growth over the last 30 years.
Among his few successes are state-employee pension fund reforms, which will save the system from bankruptcy.
So, what fiscal reforms are needed to meet these objectives?
Reforms will need to include both increases in the retirement age and changes in benefits, especially the de-linking of the minimum pension from the minimum wage.
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