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We have good abstractions in structural biology to describe this.
This external drag is likely to continue, as politics in developed countries impedes efforts to implement the structural reforms – such as reducing wages, lowering social benefits, financial deleveraging, and consolidating budget deficits – needed to revive economic growth.
At the same time, the pace of technological progress and globalization necessitates rapid structural changes in both developed and developing countries alike.
Indeed, I (and others) have argued that growing inequality is one of the reasons for the economic slowdown, and is partly a consequence of the global economy’s deep, ongoing structural changes.
To make the structural transitions that the world needs, we need governments to take a more active role – at a time when demands for cutbacks are increasing in Europe and the US.
The irony is that, with insufficient aggregate demand the major source of global weakness today, there is an alternative: invest in our future, in ways that help us to address simultaneously the problems of global warming, global inequality and poverty, and the necessity of structural change.
France urgently needs structural reforms – and thus a strong government.
Moreover, once the constraints on deficit spending are off, a major incentive for badly needed structural reform in Europe will be removed.
Structural stagflation--high inflation and low economic growth--will result.
The US also desperately needs deep structural reform of its education system, clearing obstacles to introducing technology and competition.
Structural reforms to boost productivity will also be crucial to ensure Europe’s economic recovery and the survival of its social model.
The Abe government must implement deregulation and other structural reforms while convincing powerful interest groups to adjust to a new national and global environment in which Japan’s old economic model no longer works.
The current focus on austerity and structural reform carries severe social and economic risks, in part because disenchanted electorates are fertile ground for extremist parties.
Peripheral countries must undertake structural reforms, while recognizing that such changes will not bear fruit overnight, and that internal economic rebalancing will be painful.
Investing in the green sector would contribute to Europe’s long-term productivity, while providing productive cross-border capital flows to complement structural rebalancing within peripheral countries.
Solvent countries currently can borrow at near-zero interest rates, so the time is right to invest in long-term productive assets in the peripheral countries, thus helping to facilitate the structural reforms that Europe needs to claw its way out of crisis and into a sustainable, prosperous future.
But the GCC economies are also rife with structural problems that short-term economic packages will not address – bloated public sectors, heavy dependence on imported labor, and endemic unemployment, especially among young people, who make up a disproportionately large share of the population.
Indeed, without profound structural change, the favorable standard of living that underpins the Gulf states’ political stability is likely to erode.
It provides a detailed, thoughtful, and honest diagnosis of the Chinese economy’s structural and institutional flaws, and calls for coherent and bold reforms to remove these fundamental obstacles to sustainable growth.
Now, the pressure is on for structural reforms covering everything from labor markets to taxation.
This is obviously not the ideal environment for France – not to mention the struggling economies of Southern Europe – to implement difficult structural reforms.
Some Western investors foresaw a banking crisis, owing to enormous bad debts; others expected that President Xi Jinping, having consolidated his political position, would introduce structural economic reforms.
That will mean undertaking difficult structural reforms, such as the liberalization of industrial relations.
It takes time for the full impact of deleveraging, structural rebalancing, and restoring shortfalls in tangible and intangible assets via investment to manifest itself.
Third, in flexible economies like that of the US, an important structural shift toward external demand is already underway.
Eventually, these structural shifts will offset a lower (and more sustainable) level of consumption relative to income, unless inappropriate increases in domestic demand short-circuit the process.
Fourth, economies with structural rigidities need to take steps to remove them.
All economies must be adaptable to structural change in order to support growth, and flexibility becomes more important in altering defective growth patterns, because it affects the speed of recovery.
So, while we can expect a multi-year process of rebalancing and closing the gap between actual and potential growth, exactly how long it will take depends on policy choices and the speed of structural adjustment.
This means that the fiscal authorities have a big responsibility: to target a structural fiscal surplus that is high enough to generate the space needed for real exchange rate depreciation.
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