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.

The IMF is supporting structural measures to enhance public sector governance and transparency.

Monetary easing and fiscal stimulus, combined with structural measures to restore private firms to financial health, would stimulate household expenditure and business investment.

Lastly, she said that migration brought to light structural problems that could not be solved by ad hoc measures, and even less by unilateral ones.

Africa s Structural Transformation Challenge

Structural and jurisdictional issues

Structural foundations remained intact.

And the State Council recently published Guidelines for the Structural Adjustment, Transformation, and Upgrading of the Financially Supported Economy, which outlines ten key measures for revitalizing the capital stock.

For others, conditionality will be more tightly focused on core areas, and structural conditions that require hard to time legislative measures will be judged in a less formalistic manner.

Oil exporters must increase fiscal spending further Japan and the Euro area must trigger higher growth through structural reforms and the US must implement concrete measures to sustain higher savings.

Fourth, in choosing cyclical measures to deal with structural problems, policymakers have complicated matters even more a reflection, again, of their inability to understand the unusual challenges that they face.

To support measures and initiatives aimed at strengthening the productive capacities and accelerating economic growth and sustainable development of LDCs which are impeded by various structural and supply side constraints.

The Mirage of Structural Reform

Any structural adjustment is painful.

Structural change is, by definition, innovative.

The reason is simple in most cases, the required structural measures involve immediate pain for longer term gain a tradeoff that politicians abhor, especially when they are subject to short election cycles.

All in all, the negative impact of the Chinese government s crisis management measures on China s long term growth may be serious if the authorities fail to tackle the economy s structural problems head on.

But it is also worth noting that the government is well aware of the problems, and has begun to take measures to put structural adjustment back at the top of the policy agenda.

On the other hand, in the context of an unfavourable economic environment, the structural adjustment measures recommended by the Bretton Woods institutions have contributed to a suspension of recruitment in the public sector.

Successive economic crises, structural adjustment programmes, and other restrictive measures have increased the burden on the most vulnerable social groups, and have accelerated the collapse of living conditions for rural women in particular.

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.

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

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.

Little has been done to deconstruct structural complexity, let alone win sufficient public support for a medium term vision, a credible implementation strategy, and a set of measures that is adequate to the task at hand.

To this effect, the international community should take all necessary and appropriate measures, including ensuring support for structural and macroeconomic reform, a comprehensive solution to the external debt problem and increasing market access for developing countries.

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.