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Second, there is a continuing structural imbalance between the way Europe looks at America, i.e., with passion and concern, and the way America looks at Europe, i.e., with mild interest giving way to growing indifference.
Important structural reforms were implemented, particularly privatization.
Instead of focusing on structural reforms to liberate the economy’s productive forces, it relied on income cuts and tax increases.
The incompetence of the governments that implemented the agreement exacerbates that defect by sidelining structural reforms and enacting only the terms concerning austerity.
The renegotiation should aim at changing the policy mix in the following directions:Achieving these targets presupposes that Greece’s new government implements all of the structural changes agreed with the eurozone.
The periphery needs to recover competitiveness, and some have taken heart from the Mediterranean countries’ shrinking trade deficits – the structural trade imbalances within the eurozone are correcting themselves, they say.
It is not Great Britain in the 1970’s, a country that truly had nothing to lose by taking Margaret Thatcher’s harsh road of structural change.
Many other developing countries face similar problems, with benefits intended for the poor accruing to better-off people, while many of the intended recipients miss out, owing to a combination of political and administrative collusion and genuine structural challenges.
The resulting policies were enough to prevent the post-2008 recession from developing into a full-blown depression; but that partial success turned out to be a Pyrrhic victory, for it allowed politicians to declare that the crisis had been overcome, and that it was time to embrace austerity and focus on structural reform.
The rebalancing of any economy – a major structural transformation in the sources of output growth – can hardly be expected to occur overnight.
Troubled economies need structural reforms, but macroeconomic recovery programs are the immediate priority.
There were no surprises in the basic thrust of the strategy – a structural shift in China’s investment- and export-led growth model toward a more balanced consumer-based and services-led economy.
Three insights from this year’s China Development Forum deepened my confidence that a major structural transformation is now at hand that will enable China to avoid the middle-income trap.
But to do so requires a shift from “hard” strategies like structural adjustment to “soft” ones – in particular, the development of human capabilities.
But, as is so often the case, as the sense of urgency waned, so did the will to tackle deep structural challenges.
None of the structural reforms essential to improving Italy’s growth potential – for example, labor-market and unemployment benefit reforms, product market liberalizations, improvements of the education system, reforms of the public administration in the South – has been carried out, even though Berlusconi could count on solid majorities in both chambers of Parliament.
In this way, Italy lost 30 months without enacting the structural reforms that it so badly needs to restore the country’s growth potential.
Fiscal discipline remains essential, as are deep structural reforms.
The growth pact can be properly financed by new sources of revenue, such as a financial-transaction tax and joint project bonds for infrastructure investment, or by curbing tax evasion and tax fraud and eliminating tax havens, as well as by more efficient and intelligent use of structural funds.
Channeling EU structural funds towards innovation is essential, given that spending on research and development is alarmingly low compared to our global partners.
But they must use that window to launch the structural reforms needed to achieve sustainable economic growth, macroeconomic stability, and the sound and equitable exploitation of their oil and gas reserves.
While the peg gives GCC currencies credibility, it has prevented real depreciation and fails to reflect the deep structural changes in GCC members’ economic and financial links over the past three decades – particularly the shift away from the United States and Europe and toward China and Asia.
Moreover, they know from experience that there are no easy and immediate solutions to the West’s debt overhang and structural impediments to growth.
But that leaves the third, longest-term, and most dangerous factor underlying the crisis: the structural imbalance between the eurozone’s north and south.
Such a new platform should also be used to work towards structural reform of the international monetary system aimed at reducing its excessive reliance on the US dollar as a reserve currency.
At first, cooperation centered on the creation of a common market, with European technocrats, led by the European Commission’s then-president, Jacques Delors, pushing for a common currency, despite deep structural differences.
Instead, credit structural reforms in the Dutch labor market for the jobs boom.
Beyond that, structural labor-market reforms of the kind French President Emmanuel Macron is pursuing would be most welcome.
Unfortunately, I’m afraid that progress on structural reforms will be sporadic, at best.
Europe needs structural reforms, but such reforms alone will not end the Continent's malaise, and some measures - those that weaken employment protection or the social safety net - may come at a high price, especially for people at the bottom.
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