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The reason for these differences lie not in an excessive "speed" of Russia's reforms, but in geography, structural conditions, and of course politics.
Russia's structural conditions have also been important.
Russia's structural conditions also precluded Chinese-style gradualist reforms of the state enterprises.
Undoubtedly, the US labor market’s uneven recovery has much to do with the structural and policy gaps exposed by the 2008 global financial crisis and the recession that followed.
And political polarization narrows the scope for effective tactical and structural policy responses.
But that dual objective requires structural change in the Chinese and US economies.
The eurozone’s flagging growth reflects old and new structural problems, the legacy of the last crisis (which still weighs on banks’ asset quality), high debt levels in some countries, and external shocks that have affected demand.
For the most part, German economists and officials believe that economic policy should focus almost exclusively on the supply side, diagnosing and addressing structural problems.
In India, the government’s failure to contain rising prices, pursue structural economic reforms vigorously, attract foreign direct investment, advance infrastructure development, manage expenditure, and avoid liquidity crunches underscores the many challenges it faces.
India and China both need a renewed commitment to structural reform to sustain their economic growth.
What both countries need are short-term corrections and long-term structural changes.
Nonetheless, as their economies mature, both will need to embrace structural change – and to address the challenges of overdue political reforms.
Bailouts from the European Stability Mechanism represent the clearest example of this, with the fiscal compact now committing signatories to tight deficit targets and structural adjustment.
Historically, job displacement has occurred in waves, first with the structural shift from agriculture to manufacturing, and then with the move from manufacturing to services.
Another is that the Golden Rule applies to fiscal policy across the whole economic cycle, not to any given year, so that cyclical deterioration can be distinguished from structural weakening.
The Success of Greek Structural ReformsATHENS – Since July 2015, when the Greek government and its European counterparts agreed to a new bailout deal, my country has made immense efforts to implement structural reforms under tight deadlines.
It is as if they cannot understand how reforms can help restart an economy with deep structural problems.
The first task is structural and redistributive: it concerns the size of the budget and its detailed structure on both the spending and revenue sides.
This isn’t for lack of structural reforms.
At the same time that political changes helped spread democracy across Latin America, structural economic reforms were strengthened.
In a few cases, fiscal councils might impose conditions that are even more stringent than current EU rules stipulate, but they would be limited to enforcing the structural balance that each signatory of the fiscal compact has enshrined in its constitution or in equally binding legislation.
Independent national authorities would be better placed not only to assess implementation risks, but also to advocate for structural reforms.
Although it is impossible to anticipate how Mexico’s many contemporary crises will end, we do know that in the coming years Mexico will continue to be characterized by a combination of solid macroeconomic numbers, chronic inequality, and structural violence.
One thing we know for sure is that the oil market has undergone structural changes, thus making this latest episode different from previous dramatic price fluctuations.
Some of the oil-price factors listed above are temporary, but others are structural and permanent.
The first rescue package envisaged a resumption of growth, a decline in the fiscal deficit, and structural reforms.
And much more action is needed to address the largest and most urgent structural weakness of all – climate change.
Stephen Roach has suggested that in the post-crisis global economy “relapse is the rule”; economist Brad DeLong, speaking of the “consequences of our lesser depression,” argues that the pretense of a eurozone recovery has collapsed; and European Central Bank President Mario Draghi has acknowledged the need not only for structural reform, but also fiscal expansion to boost aggregate demand.
While structural reforms – particularly on the supply side – are required in developed and developing countries, they are not sufficient to address what former US Treasury Secretary Larry Summers has called “secular stagnation” – that is, the difficulty of sustaining sufficient demand to permit normal levels of output.
One structural reform that could drive global growth is substantial infrastructure investment in developing and developed countries alike.
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