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Thus, Merkel has so far dampened any hope that the important and hard reforms that she announced during her campaign and that Germany urgently needs will be carried out under the CDU-SPD “grand coalition” government.
Such questions lead to the real explanation of Germany’s political stagnation: there is simply no popular majority in favor of liberal reforms, because in the near term such reforms would create too many losers.
Many Christian Democrats may be dreaming of the next election, and a new coalition with the Free Democrats – and perhaps the Greens – that would carry out the necessary welfare and labor market reforms.
But the reality is that the CDU leadership is re-orienting the party toward more socialist attitudes in order to attract a larger share of the electorate, making postponement of the necessary reforms all but inevitable.
Reforms unleashed the beneficial forces of supply and demand, as Poland's experience made dramatically evident, and brought an end to the endemic shortages of the old regime.
But when the new legal framework demanded the creation of working state institutions that took time to create, quick reforms often had less than the desired effect.
Although some abuses could have been lessened, the main reason for failure was that reform of the state did not keep pace with economic reforms.
Poland's chaos in the 1980s, for example, may have created the basis for rapid growth in the 1990s, because the dead hand of central planning had already been cut off when the reforms began.
Moreover, the reforms are crucial for the Chinese Communist Party’s long-term hold on power.
Nonetheless, while the reforms are crucial for China’s future, they are certain to produce a backlash.
Xi’s proposed reforms are just the sort of changes that might have this effect.
If reforms become broadly unpopular or expose dangerous divisions within the leadership, the government will have good reason to divert public attention from controversies at home by picking fights abroad.
With our members’ support, we are implementing important reforms to our lending policies that will encourage countries to approach the IMF early on, before crises become severe and almost intractable.
The lending reforms adopted this week will enable us to be even more flexible and responsive in assisting even more countries.
At the same time, these reforms are only a part of a much larger plan for IMF renewal.
My colleague at Harvard, Matt Andrews, has documented the failure of public financial management reforms designed to prevent graft.
Herein lies the dilemma (one that China currently faces) of market-oriented reforms.
While cross-border capital flows and interest and exchange rates must be liberalized to maintain economic development, such reforms raise the risk of asset bubbles if implemented under distorted benchmark prices.
In the 1990s, when Russia was feeling the pinch of economic reforms, the Russian political provocateur Vladimir Zhirinovsky asked, “Why should we inflict suffering on ourselves?
In doing so, ASEAN showed its continued influence on Myanmar’s progress towards democratic reforms.
Similarly, the unfinished reforms in China's banking sector and state-owned enterprises have been used as evidence of state subsidies for dumping activities.
To reach the next stage of development, it will need to forge a different growth path – and that will require more difficult reforms than those on which attention is often focused.
But major policy reforms are also needed.
Such reforms would challenge powerful vested interests.
To forestall that scenario, some members of the German government, fearing that they will be unable to accommodate Macron’s other demands (particularly concerning eurozone reforms), are hoping to work with him to make Brexit unattractive.
In Europe, especially, a broad array of reforms could contribute to bridging a growing efficiency gap with the US.
This is why reforms that strengthen the economy in the medium term can help in the short term, too.
If the EU rejects the reforms Le Pen demands, she will campaign for a French exit.
Many local governments, indeed, began these reforms without the official permission of Beijing administrators.
Today's official recognition of this longstanding practice will only encourage a speedier pace to these reforms.
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