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Those of us who fear that the Fed’s approach has greatly deepened the US economy’s malaise and is turning America’s cyclical unemployment into permanent long-term structural non-employment have lost the domestic monetary-policy argument.
The causes of the persistent imbalances should be addressed through a combined effort at fiscal consolidation and strengthened competitiveness, with structural reforms focusing on liberalizing markets and encouraging wage flexibility.
That recovery, however, would be constrained by the deeply embedded structural problems that continue to beset South Korea’s economy.
It seems more likely that the problem is structural, and lies in the profound systemic differences between the process of internal (mainly economic) integration, and the process of external (mainly political) integration.
But they generally include removing rigidities and other barriers to competition in labor, product, and service markets; investment in skills, human capital, and the technology base of the economy; and rebuilding safety nets in ways that promote and support, rather than impede, structural adjustment.
It is also about structural reform and rebalancing, which comes at a cost.
The country now has an unemployment problem that is large in magnitude and increasingly structural in nature.
There is no doubt that Putin means business on structural reform.
Navigating such a structural transition without causing a sharp decline in economic growth would be difficult for any country.
But that time is not now; and, given the country’s tricky ongoing structural transition, it probably will not come anytime soon.
These structural impediments cannot be removed.
Treating a sick economy requires structural reforms, which can cover everything from financial and labor markets to tax systems, fertility patterns, and education policies.
The lack of structural reform has meant that the unprecedented excess liquidity that central banks injected into their economies was not allocated to its most efficient uses.
In this case, the key will be for policymakers to pursue the structural reforms that they have long promised, while replacing finger-pointing and antagonism with a sensible and respectful global dialogue.
But after the global economy started to recover during the latter part of the following year, the ECB’s moves became increasingly problematic, because they enabled countries to evade structural reform and hindered the necessary disinflation in the southern eurozone countries – or even halted it altogether, as in Portugal and Italy.
None of this has helped, because neither monetary nor fiscal policy can substitute for structural reform.
Even if governments managed to restore macroeconomic balance gradually, the structural problems of high unemployment, poor investment climates, and inadequate provision of public services would likely remain unaddressed.
Structural support to new members from current EU members, indeed, is expected to be less than 4% of Dutch GNP.
While the proposed remedies vary considerably, there seems to be a broad consensus that the illness is structural.
But while structural problems, from diminishing returns to capital to the rise in protectionism since the global economic crisis, are certainly acting as a drag on growth, another factor has gone largely unnoticed: the business cycle.
The notion that this critical transition has occurred risks generating complacency at a time when China should be focused on the wrenching, but essential, process of structural adjustment – one that will take at least another decade to complete.
Some are structural: saving is high globally, especially in Asia but also in Europe, where aging countries like Germany put money aside for retirement.
So, when confronted with a growth slowdown caused by structural factors, many countries responded by lowering interest rates and stimulating credit.
Furthermore, the BIS claims that credit may well aggravate structural deficiencies.
The scars of the global financial crisis and Great Recession, combined with longer-term structural economic, technological, cultural, and demographic trends, have left large swaths of the population in many countries feeling politically neglected, culturally disparaged, and/or economically wounded.
To lower public expenditure without exacerbating the inequalities which slow growth imposes on society, public sector structural reforms are demanded.
In determining the precise policy mix to follow and whether or not structural reforms will be introduced, policymakers must first decide whether the haughty dominance of lenders over wage earners is to be perpetuated.
Persistent undervaluation, achieved through the accumulation of foreign-exchange reserves, reduces the incentive to pursue structural reform and achieve productivity growth.
They have delivered fiscal consolidation, and many countries have also implemented significant structural reforms.
A unilateral blanket bailout would stress the banking union, stretch public finances, and leave the Italian banking system with its structural weakness.
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