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As the structural causes that have pushed these countries into near permanent states of crisis seem unlikely to be resolved anytime soon, there problems may well become linked to Latin America’s tense relations with the US.
At a time when multilateralism is under increasing strain, it is useful to understand the underlying shift in key weights and try to judge how much of what we are experiencing reflects structural shifts in these weights and how much is simply due to independent policy changes.
For example, without a strong Germany to enforce the eurozone’s fiscal strictures and urge the implementation of difficult but necessary structural reforms, countries may lose their motivation to do what is needed to ensure fairness and stability in the long term.
India’s latest central budget emphasizes fiscal prudence, adheres to past commitments, and aims at structural reforms, especially in agriculture.
Furthermore, Spain’s success, coupled with lax credit policy in the eurozone, resulted in a financial bubble whose collapse exposed structural challenges.
Since the second half of the 1980’s, when net emigration abruptly reversed, Spain has experienced high levels of structural unemployment, even when annual growth was above 4%, in part owing to the high quality and generous provisions of Spain’s social-welfare system, which was also consolidated in the post-Franco period.
The increasing integration of the Eastern periphery into a pan-European production process is part of a structural change that should boost trade by more than enough to compensate the dampening effects of falling growth in Western Europe.
But these gains are likely to be short-lived, unless policymakers seize the opportunity that they provide to address the deep-seated structural challenges that, if left unresolved, will undermine growth in the longer term.
The path to such openness was thorny: foreign competition in the early 1990s deepened the structural problems of big Hungarian banks, a malady which faster privatization could have eased.
Without such structural reforms or returning fiscal surpluses to families through tax cuts and rebates, government investment-based stimulus efforts can provide, at best, a short-term economic boost.
Moreover, all of Greece’s structural problems – a thin tax base, large numbers of government employees who receive bonus payments, and generous pension benefits – cannot be sustained within the eurozone.
Of course, there are serious structural impediments.
This substantial deficit is the consequence of a chronic gap between investment and saving, and past AKP governments’ failure to enact structural reforms to raise total productivity and enhance Turkey’s international competitiveness.
On the upside, the US could have a “Sputnik moment”: a sense of national unity, common purpose, and shared sacrifice leads to structural reforms that focus on re-aligning balance sheets over the medium term, enhancing job creation, and improving competitiveness.
The most important lesson is the need for sustained rapid growth and structural economic transformation.
Structural transformations should promote full and productive employment as well as decent work, while governments should have enough policy and fiscal space to enable them to play a proactive role and to provide adequate universal social protection.
These medical challenges are scientific and technological, and thus cannot be solved by IMF-World Bank "structural adjustment loans," which focus on policy reforms rather than scientific and technological innovations.
Structural reform is needed to raise the anemic growth rate.
WWII, however, provided more than just a fiscal stimulus; it brought about a structural transformation, as the war effort moved large numbers of people from rural areas to urban centers and retrained them with the skills needed for a manufacturing economy, a process which continued with the GI bill.
An analogous structural transformation, this time not from agriculture to manufacturing, but from manufacturing-led growth to services-led growth, compounded by the need to adjust to globalization, marked the economy in the years before the 2008 crisis.
The only positive result that may emerge from such a structural change could be that the number of anti-terrorist formations will grow.
In those economies, however, where debt overhangs, policy is uncertain, or the need for structural reform constrains domestic demand, there is a legitimate question as to whether these policies’ domestic benefits have offset their damaging spillovers to other economies.
For starters, a Greek exit from the eurozone may have been only postponed, not prevented, as pension and other structural reforms put the country on a collision course with its European creditors.
Structural BoomsWhy are there economic booms and busts, those long swings between expansion and slowdown?
My research argues that they are usually structural, the result of powerful shifts in expectations about future productivity and profitability.
I see these powerful upswings as investment booms as having structural causes and effects.
But they held that structural booms may die of natural causes – with no necessity for the over-building, purge and catharsis depicted by the later Austrian school.
If my thesis is right – the root cause of big booms in capitalist economies over recent decades (as well as during the pre-WWI decades) is a structural shift in expected future profitability – what does it mean for the choice of an economic system and for economic stabilisation?
Such outcomes are the result not just of inevitable structural shifts, but also of decisions about how to handle those shifts.
Policies that tackle structural biases head-on – from minimum wages to, potentially, universal basic income schemes – are also needed.
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