The Mirage of Structural Reform

Yes, Europe needs structural reform, as austerity advocates insist.

In other words, lack of social trust blocks structural reform.

The PA reform agenda

It is attempting to breathe life into the campaign for structural reform.

No other proposal provides for meaningful structural reform of the Security Council.

It is also about structural reform and rebalancing, which comes at a cost.

Recent accession to the EU gives further impetus and direction to structural reform.

There has been only very modest structural reform in countries like Italy and France.

The feasibility study requires structural police reform with a view to rationalizing police services.

Europe and Japan can increase their growth by stepping up the pace of structural reform.

The Office needed a healthy funding base as well as transparency, accountability and structural reform.

The Saudi reform agenda mainly concerns domestic issues.

At the same time, however, China s leadership must continue to pursue its agenda of structural reform and adjustment, even if it may have an adverse impact on growth in the short run. China simply cannot afford to continue to kick the reform can down the road.

Japan s political system requires the same sort of structural reform that its economy has long needed.

The reform agenda of the United Nations is much broader than just Security Council reform.

The narrower agenda financial reform, stabilizing the housing market, restoring balance sheets, addressing structural deficiencies, and restoring growth and employment would not have captured the public s imagination, and almost certainly would have disappointed Obama s enthusiastic supporters.

If markets are confused or pessimistic about China s longer term agenda, but if the direction of structural change and reform is positive, there may be investment opportunities that were absent in the more exuberant recent past.

Comprehensive security sector reform remains off the political agenda.

Fortunately, such reform is at last on the agenda.

Could anything be done to accelerate adjustment in the eurozone s periphery? The official recipe is structural reform.

He looked forward to cooperating with UNHCR on structural reform of the migration service at all levels.

The Security Council's structural reform and the improvement of its working methods should go hand in hand.

UNHCR needed strong partnerships and a healthy funding base, as well as transparency, accountability and structural reform.

The agenda for reform boils down to four key problems.

The reform agenda has been with us for decades now.

Structural reform cannot wait. Nationalism should be channeled toward securing public support for deep economic and social reforms.

It is the ECB, after all, that must fight the inflation caused by Europe s lack of structural reform.

None of this should come as a surprise. Structural reform increases productivity in practice through two complementary channels.

Watching for progress on these key elements of structural change and reform seems to be the right stance.

No one can guarantee that Prime Minister Li Keqiang s attempts to achieve deleveraging and structural reform will succeed.

But China s long term interest, and that of the world, requires that it get serious about domestic structural reform.

Europe requires structural labor market reform and must resolve its sovereign debt overhang, banking crises, and the euro s future.

For President Barack Obama, California s crisis imperils his own reform agenda.

At the same time, investors have raised serious and legitimate questions about Japan s economic policy regime under Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, which unfortunately relies far more on financial engineering quantitative easing and yen depreciation than on a new structural reform agenda.

Since 2002, a five pillar security reform agenda, with a lead nation coordinating each reform activity, has been pursued.

Two final, structural issues concern the overall way of dealing with issues pertaining to the VI.4 agenda.

Growth pessimists have a point if they are wary about Europe s prospects for structural reform to raise the growth ceiling.

Moreover, despite the recent banking reform legislation, the US has not yet resolved the structural deficiencies of its capital markets.

The EBRD s view was even more straightforward the slowdown is the result of the Russian government s lack of structural reform.

Without support from the ECB, both goals economic recovery and political leaders commitment to structural reform will remain purely aspirational.

That must be an agenda that the United Nations reform cannot ignore.

The EU accession agenda continued to drive the country's economic reform programme.

National Health Policy 2001, The way forward, Agenda for Health Sector Reform.

The agenda represented the priorities set out at the World Summit and reflected the reform agenda of the Secretary General.