Hollande s apologists praise his gradualist and consensual approach to addressing the economy s structural distortions.

What is required is a two pronged approach that targets both problems simultaneously. The prevailing approach targeting debt through fiscal austerity and competitiveness through structural reform has produced unemployment levels that threaten social and political stability.

Hollande s apologists praise his gradualist and consensual approach to addressing the economy s structural distortions. They argue that his penchant for setting up consultative commissions is the best way to forge the consensus required for structural reform, whereas Sarkozy s combative style was counterproductive.

Bilateral donors (Algeria, Belgium, Italy and Spain, among others) had also changed their approach to and management of the problem of Saharan refugees since that structural change.

The UN encourages governments to assume a more proactive development role, which would entail an integrated policymaking approach aimed at promoting structural change while reducing inequality, vulnerability, and economic insecurity.

That approach ignores the particular needs and concerns of small island developing States and the fact that one size does not fit all because of their structural handicaps and inherent vulnerability.

But, to accomplish this transition, China s leaders must implement deep and comprehensive structural reforms that reverse a policy approach that continues to encourage investment and exports while explicitly and implicitly taxing consumption.

Africa s Structural Transformation Challenge

Structural and jurisdictional issues

Structural foundations remained intact.

Nonetheless, such a purely macroeconomic approach to the battle against deflation would almost certainly not be optimal. A better strategy would also entail policies that address the structural drivers of stagnant wages and consumption.

The Mirage of Structural Reform

Any structural adjustment is painful.

Structural change is, by definition, innovative.

Structural analysis is often in terms of incompressible dynamic pressure, so that equivalent airspeed is a useful speed for structural testing.

EMU was designed to encourage structural reforms.

This structural shift has enormous practical significance.

This isn t for lack of structural reforms.

However, modern social protection has grown to envelop a much broader range of issues and purposes it is now being used as a policy approach in developing nations, to address issues of persistent poverty and target structural causes.

In fact, where structural weaknesses are the source of problems, the Fund should still require structural adjustment as the price of its assistance.

Meanwhile, fears of structural decline pervade the country.

China s economic problems are more structural than cyclical.

Structural change does not automatically accelerate economic development.

Let us remember what structural unemployment looks like.

The main structural proteins are collagen and elastin.

(d) Structural elements (e.g., trustee, funds flow, timing)

Structural changes in the Palestinian economy 1995 2004

The politics of this approach will be difficult, particularly in the rich countries but, structured properly, concerted structural reform could help to restore growth, which would feed back into healthier budgets, more jobs, better balance sheets, and less financial risk.

The main lesson of Japan s approach is that launching an aggressive buying spree overseas merely upsets established international balances of interests thus generating greater tensions with the rest of the world while hiding the seriousness of structural problems at home.

So, it's tens of millions of calculations just to design one connection between a piece of structural steel and another piece of structural steel.

On floods and storm surges, he noted structural measures such as multipurpose cyclone centres, and non structural measures such as subsurface food and seed storage.

Rising structural unemployment will reduce labor input and efficiency.

Individual countries would still need to undertake structural reforms.

Many important structural problems have resulted from this trend.

Both structural factors and the exchange rate are discussed.

Fiscal discipline remains essential, as are deep structural reforms.

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

Negotiators will also have to overcome significant structural obstacles.

In this climate, no progressive structural reforms are likely.

FLORENCE Major economic crises are inevitably also structural milestones.

Macro politics is structural, whereas micro politics is daily.

There are structural explanations for policy inaction as well.

The country was also slow in implementing structural reforms.

This process of structural adjustment is still going on.

It would do nothing to correct its structural imbalances.