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To save it, I believe, requires a kind of “Grand Bargain” approach, rather than incremental steps, with Germany agreeing, effectively, to some form of mutualization of debt, while the debtor countries carry out profound structural reforms, and the ECB stands fully behind the bargain.
Universities, according to former Fortune editor Tom Stewart, are "dumb organizations" with too much "human capital" but not enough "structural capital."
The second is fiscal, and the third is structural.
Difficult reforms are needed to put many national economies’ fiscal affairs in order and to increase their structural flexibility.
The third missing ingredient is structural flexibility, which is needed for two reasons.
Restoring growth requires structural changes.
That is either not occurring or happening at a glacial pace in southern European economies, where structural rigidities in labor and services markets need to be addressed.
Even without crisis-related imbalances, structural flexibility in all economies is necessary to adapt to the shifts caused by globalization and the labor-saving and skill-biased technological shifts associated with the rising value of digital capital.
If investment in human capital is to keep up with the changing composition of employment, structural flexibility is needed.
Europe has a real chance to conclude a bargain: member countries implement fiscal and structural reforms in exchange for short-run relaxation of fiscal constraints – not to increase liabilities, but to focus on growth-oriented investments to jump-start sustained recovery.
Accordingly, for decades such institutions were widely viewed as the main feature differentiating advanced economies from developing countries that are still subject to a much larger array of damaging cyclical and structural shocks.
The need for structural reforms is acknowledged, but they are typically deemed painful, and possibly growth-reducing in the short run.
If secular stagnation persists, these countries will have to undertake painful structural reforms, figure out how to restructure their promises (debts, social-security commitments, and pledges to keep taxes low), and distribute the resulting burden.
The West’s failures in Iraq and Afghanistan, followed by the global economic crisis (which exposed severe structural weaknesses in the US and the EU that their democratic governments have been unable to resolve), accelerated this process.
Although the US has retained considerable influence, the combination of structural economic problems, a divided elite, and two de facto military defeats has impeded its ability to exercise that power.
First, in the past, short-term macroeconomic stability was often achieved at the expense of structural adjustment and rational allocation of resources.
By the end of the year, however, the costs of the structural adjustment needed to shift China’s growth model away from investment demand could rise further.
The problem with inequality is not only that it obstructs the pursuit of collective goals and the common good; it also erects structural barriers to development, for example, through meager or regressive taxation and underinvestment in education, health, or infrastructure.
The vote to leave the European Union was fueled by deep-seated public anger about the huge structural inequalities between the UK’s north and the south – inequalities that, as UK Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Hammond acknowledged this week, are the worst in Europe.
In other words, the focus of global public-health strategies and investments should shift toward reducing the structural disparities between rich and poor countries, in terms of their capacity for medical research and public-health implementation.
Since 1989 – and particularly since 2004, when they joined the EU – they have benefited from massive financial transfers in the form of European structural and cohesion funds.
Rising income inequality, exacerbated by the mismatch between skills and jobs in the digital age, will impede growth, unless a wide array of difficult structural reforms are implemented, including reforms aimed at constraining climate change.
As long as the geopolitical situation remains manageable, policymakers should have time to implement the needed structural reforms.
The promise of the euro--that it would set off a competitive dynamic inside the euro-zone economy that would compel structural reform--has yet to be fulfilled.
Countries with persistent structural current-account deficits will incur additional external-financing costs, and eventually will reach the limits of leverage.
Many of these structural problems were hidden from view before the crisis, thereby delaying both market and policy responses.
If Rouhani is to continue to make progress, however, he will need to look beyond current conditions to address entrenched structural challenges facing the Iranian economy, as well as the limitations of the Islamic Republic’s institutional, judicial, and legal frameworks.
The first structural challenge lies in Iran’s excessive dependence on the oil sector.
The second structural challenge is demographic.
Given the challenges of modernizing an economy within the parameters of a theocratic state, structural adjustment and global integration are likely to be prolonged processes.
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