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I do not disagree: by definition, structural reforms take more time than changes in monetary and fiscal policy do.
Rising structural unemployment will reduce labor input and efficiency.
Worse, boosting social spending will contribute little to resolving the country’s staggering 17.5% rate of unemployment – most of it structural –while any hope of quick euro adoption will be dashed.
Beyond 2013, growth must depend on either the elixir of structural reforms, or a strong revival of the global economy.
A new fiscal compact – and new governments in Greece, Italy, and Spain – spurred hope of credible commitment to austerity and structural reform.
Even structural reforms that will eventually increase productivity growth can be recessionary in the short run.
In the United States, the financial sector is undergoing a high-speed but permanent structural transformation, the effects of which could be severe for developing countries’ economic growth.
Because its market grew faster than its tax, regulatory, and judicial arrangements could evolve, the country was beset by rising income inequality, pollution, financial risks, and corruption – all of which must be addressed in the next phase of structural reforms.
In the past, local-level experimentation and innovation have proved integral to China’s progress, with competition among provinces, cities, and firms often helping the country to break out of bureaucratic and structural logjams.
Above all, this will require structural change and greater competitiveness in an expanded tradable sector.
Indeed, the US economy’s structural evolution over the past two decades has made additional foreign demand inaccessible without expanding the scope of the tradable sector.
Fiscal stimulus, in the form of backloading deficit-reduction efforts, might help tide the economy over while structural adjustment and expansion of competitiveness in the tradable sector proceed.
The argument for a measured deficit-reduction program is to buy time for the structural shifts that will expand accessible external demand and fill in the gap in aggregate demand.
What structural adjustments are needed, and how will they occur?
The pace and effectiveness of structural adaptation will be determined not only by private-sector incentives and market forces, but also by government reform and investment.
But government can take action that improves productivity, investment returns, and conditions for innovation, thereby increasing the pace and enhancing the long-term results of structural adjustment.
Not only has structural transformation caused the economy to slow; it has also exposed deep flaws in China’s financial system.
Moreover, after a series of scandals cost Abe some newly appointed ministers, some fear that he may no longer be willing to follow through on the liberalizing structural reforms – the so-called “third arrow” of Abenomics – that sustained economic recovery requires.
But even if innovation has not dropped off too much, or picks up again soon, the structural adaptation and behavioral changes needed to take advantage of the concomitant productivity gains will take time.
As economies undergo prolonged structural transformations, individuals and families need the resources to invest in new skills.
These include tax policy, the inefficient or improper use of public funds, impediments to structural change in product and factor markets, and mismatches between the reach of global financial institutions and the capacity of sovereign balance sheets to intervene in case of financial distress.
But igniting and sustaining rapid growth requires something more: production-oriented policies that stimulate ongoing structural change and foster employment in new economic activities.
After years of high and long-term structural unemployment, the country implemented a series of labor-market and other reforms beginning in 2003, turning its economy into one of the top performers in the EU.
France is suffering from high structural unemployment and low potential growth, and its public finances are unsustainable in the medium term.
Once in place, a shared liability scheme would reduce the incentives to deliver on structural reforms.
But, as Premier Li Keqiang seems to recognize, this trend could actually be beneficial, spurring the structural reforms that China needs to achieve its longer-term goal of more balanced and stable GDP growth.
The reason for Li’s inaction emerged in early June, when Chinese President Xi Jinping told his American counterpart, Barack Obama, that China had deliberately revised its growth target downward, to 7.5%, in order to pursue structural reforms aimed at supporting stable and sustained economic development.
In 2005, China was experiencing currency appreciation, which, as other fast-growing economies in East Asia have demonstrated, can stimulate the government and businesses to pursue structural reforms and industrial upgrading.
But the subsequent increase in official fixed-asset investment – which rose by 32% in 2009 alone – delayed structural reforms, while over-capacity and a real-estate bubble became even larger and more deeply entrenched problems.
The combination of external shocks and internal pressure from rising wages can serve as a powerful incentive for governments and businesses to pursue structural reforms.
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