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But, instead of addressing the structural causes of rising corruption, India’s anti-graft movement bemoans a supposed weakening of ethical values and demands additional agencies with draconian powers to monitor and punish.
Increased policy credibility will boost inflows of foreign direct investment (FDI), while EU structural funds will support further institution building, infrastructure investment, and environmental protection.
Empirical research also confirms the positive impact of EU structural funds on growth.
EU structural assistance has increased annual GDP growth, on average, by 0.4-0.9% in Greece, Portugal and Ireland, and by 0.3 to 0.5% in Spain, thereby helping poorer countries catch up with richer member states.
Entry into the euro as soon as possible is the best strategy for the accession countries, because it will mobilize them to complete structural reforms in order to meet the Maastricht criteria for inflation, interest rates, fiscal deficits, and public debt.
But this may not be optimal for the transition economies, which are still experiencing deep structural changes accompanied by sizable relative price adjustments and large capital inflows.
For starters, there is the structural trend of rising primary government expenditure as a share of GDP, which reached 36% in 2014, up from 22% in 1991.
Given structural factors, however, the main outcome of this second round of stimulus was fiscal deterioration.
Meanwhile, the government began to pursue ambitious fiscal-adjustment targets, with the goal of creating space to shift policy attention toward structural impediments to growth.
Without such initiatives, structural unemployment – when the skills available do not align with open jobs – becomes increasingly entrenched.
But we also need other structural measures.
And, as we have seen in Greece, implementing structural reforms without accommodating demand impulses could lead to a deflationary slump or worse, thereby undermining the public’s willingness to continue on the reform path.
The brain interprets what is threatening and, therefore, stressful; regulates behavioral and physiological stress responses – the latter through the autonomic, immune, and neuroendocrine systems; and is a target of stress, undergoing structural and functional remodeling of its circuits that affects its performance.
By the same token, the brain shows enhanced activity during acute stress, with improvement in certain types of memory, but undergoes structural changes that increase anxiety and decrease mental flexibility and memory capacity as a result of chronic stress.
When demand begins to exceed supply, demand-side stimulus policies will become increasingly ineffective, and it will be time to launch the third arrow of Abenomics: growth-enhancing structural reforms.
Now that Abe’s government has a renewed mandate from Japanese voters, it must deliver on its promises – and that means decisive and comprehensive implementation of structural reforms.
Furthermore, economic-policy changes and structural reforms that were enacted in the wake of the 1997-1998 Asian financial crisis significantly reduced the region’s vulnerability to financial shocks over the past decade.
But policy mismanagement and structural weaknesses in the financial sector and local governments could undermine efforts to safeguard growth.
Meanwhile, India, constrained by a high fiscal deficit and persistent inflationary pressure, has less scope for expansionary policies and faces significant challenges in pursuing credible structural reform.
The unfocused set of structural reforms prescribed by its current financing agreement will not do that.
The third consideration for managing public finances in oil-rich countries is that traditional fiscal indicators, which measure overall government revenues and expenditures, do not lend themselves to comprehensive assessment, and can mask underlying structural weaknesses.
Macro-politics is structural, whereas micro-politics is daily.
Yet requiring deep fiscal cuts, privatization, and other structural reforms of the type that Greece has had to undertake risks greater unemployment and deeper recessions.
A significant change in Europe's economic fortunes cannot be expected unless deep structural changes are introduced.
But this will work only if structural reforms make these economies far more competitive.
Short-term and long-term policies are therefore closely related; unless temporary stopgaps are combined with fundamental long-term structural reform, another disaster like the current one – or worse – will become inevitable.
First, it will come as no surprise that, in terms of the distribution of income, wealth, and the costs and benefits of forced structural change, growth patterns in most of the developed world have been problematic for the past 20 years.
Indeed, far from laying the groundwork for a protracted recession, China’s response – increasing imports and accelerating domestic structural reforms – will support high-quality long-term growth.
Aside from the costs of the Iraq war and other security concerns, along with lapses in earlier spending controls, US tax cuts have structural and distributional rather than short-term aims.
Europe needs structural reforms and tighter fiscal management, not inflation.
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