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Unfortunately, the current government has had little to say about the big structural problems that underlie the world’s economic malaise.
A few, like Germany, had built deep economic and financial resilience through years of fiscal discipline and structural reforms.
The correct implication, which Phelps repeatedly emphasized, is that governments can implement a variety of policies, particularly structural policies, to allow the economy to operate at a lower level of unemployment.
Other countries with a structural surplus, including Russia, China, and Japan, would also benefit more from stronger German demand than Spain or Greece would.
So which is it – new jobs or massive structural unemployment?
Yet MENA entrepreneurs are still facing serious structural impediments to progress.
Beyond the wars, terrorism, and political turbulence plaguing the Arab world – not to mention the usual challenges facing entrepreneurs outside Silicon Valley, such as lack of adequate risk capital, talent, or infrastructure – is a slew of deep-rooted structural problems.
But reliance on foreign workers could run into structural problems down the road.
On the other hand, if the government fails to fix its structural problem – under-developed indigenous human capital – it will essentially be driving a more dangerous car, one in which it will become difficult or impossible to avoid obstacles without the wheels locking up.
Structural reforms that increase labor-market flexibility and reduce red tape and related obstacles to new business formation must also be implemented.
Indeed, the current economic rebound is not an achievement worthy of much celebration, especially if it comes at the expense of further reform and structural adjustment.
Given this, China’s top leaders promised that they would continue implementing structural reforms and advancing economic liberalization.
In particular, expansionary monetary and fiscal policies – which are helpful in the short term – must be accompanied by fundamental structural reforms.
Monetary easing and fiscal stimulus, combined with structural measures to restore private firms to financial health, would stimulate household expenditure and business investment.
That is why the success of “Abenomics” hinges not on the short-term stimulus provided by aggressive monetary expansion and fiscal policies, but on a program of structural reform that increases competition and innovation, and that combats the adverse effects of an aging population.
The US economy is relatively flexible, and this kind of structural adjustment in the private sector occurs reasonably quickly.
Against this background, monetary policymakers must be cautious, because low interest rates can shift the growth model back toward leverage and domestic consumer demand, stalling the structural shift to the tradable side that is underway.
The speed of structural adjustment is also strongly influenced by how easily employment can shift from an economy’s non-tradable to its tradable side and across segments of global supply chains.
Anyone familiar with China’s structural shifts on the supply and demand side will recognize some similarities with the German case.
The main point is that restoring growth requires a careful analysis of structural balance, attention to demand constraints in the non-tradable sector, and a focus on the impediments to expanding the tradable sector.
In structural terms, it matters greatly that the two entities in the world with economies and per capita income similar to the US – Europe and Japan – are both American allies.
The third reason is structural.
During much of the 1980s and 1990s, the Bank oversaw structural adjustment programs in developing countries that focused on deregulation, privatization, and economic liberalization, especially trade opening, all of which helped to enable globalization.
Standard monetary policy, together with bad structural policies, is to blame for the eurozone’s growth disparities.
The SGP's fundamental problem is that it must strike a balance between two contradictory goals: it must retain bite against excessive debt accumulation, yet it must also give governments more maneuvering room to enact structural reforms and restore Europe's competitiveness.
The reason is that structural reforms tend to pay off in the long term, but cost money in the short term.
To overcome the SGP's bias against structural reforms, the European Commission asked at this last Ecofin meeting for more discretion and to put more emphasis on (explicit) debt: countries with a lower debt-to-GDP ratio would have greater freedom in fiscal policy.
So, can the SGP be made to work in favor, rather than against, structural reforms, without abandoning the rules-based approach of the SGP?
The key is to select some comprehensive but operationally precise indicators of structural reforms, and then apply the same idea suggested by the Commission for public debt: countries that are making more progress on these indicators can get more leeway on their budget deficit.
And we understood that we faced the threat of a jobless recovery, owing to cyclical factors, rather than to structural changes.
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