Example collocations logo

Structural in sentence

2531 examples of Structural in a sentence

Given that China’s GDP growth rate remains respectable relative to the rest of the world, the need to emphasize structural reform is clear.
Genuine progress depends on Chinese leaders’ willingness to address the structural flaws – namely, the restrictions on domestic private capital – that are impeding the financial system’s ability to channel savings to the most promising economic sectors.
As senior Chinese officials gather for their annual summer meeting in Beidaihe, a coastal resort near Beijing, they must recognize the need for a bold plan for genuine structural reform.
Among the five BRICS countries, two (Brazil and Russia) are in recession, one (South Africa) is barely growing, another (China) is experiencing a sharp structural slowdown, and India is doing well only because – in the words of its central bank governor, Raghuram Rajan – in the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.
Finally, with so many factors dragging down potential growth, structural reforms are needed to boost potential growth.
Likewise, structural and market-oriented reforms are necessary to boost potential growth.
What many analysts still see as a temporary bubble, pumped up by artificial and unsustainable monetary stimulus, is maturing into a structural expansion of economic activity, profits, and employment that probably has many more years to run.
All of these cyclical reasons for optimism are, of course, challenged by long-term structural anxieties.
But these structural questions all have something in common: We will not know the true answers for many years.
To reduce the risk of financial pressures on Italy and Spain, both countries need to press ahead with fiscal austerity and structural reforms.
A central bank’s core mandate is to keep inflation at appropriate levels, not to negotiate structural reforms with countries like Greece, a task that is best left to the European Commission and the International Monetary Fund.
But a responsible central bank should not cater to irrational fears of inflation in what is in fact a deflationary environment, just as it is not an independent central bank’s role to tighten the thumbscrews for fiscal and structural reform.
Most economists dismiss concern that this might lead to long-term structural unemployment.
Clearly, when developed countries’ agricultural sectors shed workers, long-term structural unemployment did not result.
Structural unemployment will become inevitable.
So, are we approaching the “tipping point” where automation fuels structural unemployment?
In Japan, the policy uncertainty concerns whether the third arrow of Abenomics – structural reforms and trade liberalization to boost potential growth – will be implemented, and whether the expected rise in the consumption tax in 2014 will choke economic recovery.
The situation may not be dire yet, but it is far from ideal – especially at a time when the Chinese authorities are pursuing structural reform.
The European Commission has played a very helpful role through its structural funds, which cover up to 80% of the additional costs involved in integrating the Roma.
One is the structural decline of the once-dominant Social Democrats.
For all of its economic success during the past two decades, not least since the 2008 crisis, industry is hollowing out, and structural issues are beginning to be felt.
Negotiators will also have to overcome significant structural obstacles.
Such policies also facilitated structural change, as older workers often lack the skills required in emerging economic sectors.
This structural shift has enormous practical significance.
Since then, Turkey has focused on financial stability and structural reforms, which have strengthened economic performance and made the country more resilient to shocks.
The Third Plenum initiatives, for example, have a strategic focus: promoting the economy’s long-awaited pro-consumption structural rebalancing.
For starters, central banks cannot deliver the structural components – for example, infrastructure investments, better-functioning labor markets, and pro-growth budget reforms – needed to drive robust and sustained recovery.
Instead, they seem to be doubling down, on the theory that the deeper the crisis, the more successful the push for structural reforms will be.
A weak German economy makes the necessary structural adjustments in the eurozone periphery much more difficult.
And in Mexico, structural reforms to increase competition in the telecommunications and electricity sectors, alongside other policies, have curbed inflation and boosted resilience to external shocks, and are expected to help return the country to a primary budget surplus.
BackNext