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The US-China trade imbalance stems from structural flaws.
And central bankers are right to insist on structural reforms and credible plans for balancing budgets in the long term.
There have been large structural shifts in the world economy (e.g., trade and financial globalization) as well as in individual economies (such as the decline in trade union power).
But climate models that depend on elusive technologies weaken the imperative to enact the deep structural changes that are needed to avoid climate catastrophe.
In any case, no form of CCS advances the goal of a structural shift toward full decarbonization, which is what social movements, academics, ordinary citizens, and even some politicians are increasingly demanding.
The pessimists’ third argument is that emerging economies are not implementing fast enough the structural reforms needed to support long-term growth.
Again, there is some truth to this argument: structural reforms are needed everywhere.
But if European governments are to keep their own populists at bay, they will need to implement the substantial structural reforms that are necessary to deliver higher long-term economic growth.
European governments’ economic policies during this period have crowded out structural reforms.
The Nobel laureate economists Paul Krugman and Joseph E. Stiglitz argue that Europe’s problems stem from insufficient fiscal and monetary stimulus, and from structural flaws in the eurozone.
Rather than implementing structural policies to promote economic growth, European policymakers are pursuing economic populism, by promising high returns at little cost and consistently delivering the bare minimum.
It would greatly facilitate the creation of an effective banking union, and it would allow member states to undertake their own structural reforms in a more benign environment.
Except for producing inflation in the eurozone, a depreciation, whether external or internal via price cuts, is the only possibility for an uncompetitive country to regain competitiveness and generate a structural current account surplus, which is the only possibility for orderly debt redemption.
In the run-up to next month’s G20 summit in Hangzhou, China has been calling loudly for new commitments to structural reforms to stimulate growth in advanced and emerging-market economies.
Moreover, structural unemployment and worker resettlement costs can be mitigated with a strong social safety net that includes funds for targeted labor redeployment so that workers can get back on their feet.
This mechanism may be unlikely to mobilize significant new financing, but participating countries can provide valuable political and technical support on structural reform, regional integration, and private-sector development.
Let me be the first to say that structural unemployment is a true and severe danger.
For nothing converts cyclical unemployment into structural unemployment more certainly than prolonged unemployment.
Does it look right now as if the biggest problem facing the economies of Europe and North America is structural unemployment?
Let us remember what structural unemployment looks like.
This would produce structural unemployment to the extent that the ex-construction workers could not do things in manufacturing that would make it worthwhile for manufacturing firms to hire them.
But depression in the construction sector and unemployment among its ex-workers would be balanced by exuberance in the manufacturing sector, rising prices for manufactured goods, and long hours and high wages for manufacturing workersThat is what “mismatch” structural unemployment looks like – and it is not what we have today, at least not in Europe and North America.
This may well look like structural unemployment in three years.
The list of structural challenges facing countries around the globe is a long one.
It was structural change that mattered, not international trade per se.
Indeed, structural change has become increasingly perverse: from manufacturing to services (prematurely), tradable to non-tradable activities, organized sectors to informality, modern to traditional firms, and medium-size and large firms to small firms.
Quantitative studies show that such patterns of structural change are exerting a substantial drag on economic growth in Latin America, Africa, and in many Asian countries.
The current scheme breeds structural fiscal deficits, excessive reliance on imports, endemic corruption, money laundering, narcotics trafficking, and massive capital flight.
In fact, while the Saakashvili government’s clampdown showed the structural weaknesses of Georgia’s democracy, the aftermath has also shown that Georgia’s Western ambition remains intact, because the government understands that it cannot afford any long-term deviation from democratic norms.
Structural changes to economies that experienced a sharp fall in interest rates when they joined a Germany-dominated currency bloc now must be made quickly, in crisis, and without the luxury of devaluation.
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