The agenda for reform boils down to four key problems.

The Saudi reform agenda mainly concerns domestic issues.

Outside of China, this part of the reform agenda is the least well understood.

By any standards, the reform agenda is ambitious especially given a fragile and unaccommodating external environment.

Crown Prince Abdullah offered not a peep of opposition, leaving the reform agenda that he initiated in a political netherworld.

So the entire fiscal system is a crucial item on China s reform agenda, especially management of public capital.

Japan s agenda is simple and straightforward reform at home and proactive contributions to global peace based on the principle of international cooperation.

So the Syrian leadership knows that it must respond hence the half hearted reform agenda that it recently outlined.

It is time to broaden the agenda of global financial reform, which so far has focused on an essential but still limited set of issues, particularly financial regulation.

Guinea s current agenda mirrors that of the G 8.

For trade in goods, the new free trade zone is intended to compete directly with Singapore and Hong Kong. China fears dependence on those entrepôts in the event of conflict.

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.

A Migration Agenda for the Private Sector

Norman Foster's green agenda

A New Democratic Agenda for Russia

Financing the Next Development Agenda

Africa s Transparency Agenda

With the Chinese economy still growing at close to 10 per year, the government can afford to take more short term policy risk in order to clear the way for its structural agenda.

To succeed, support for tax, labor, and political reforms once a part of Lula s agenda needs to be revived.

The Climate Change Agenda Heats Up

An Economic Agenda for Italy

2. The Doha development agenda

A Healthier Global Health Agenda

Obama s agenda is breathtaking.

The Eurozone s Agenda in 2013

A New Agenda for China s New Leaders?

A Peace Agenda for Global Development

An Agenda for Europe s Weary Magicians

Here is a five point agenda.

The rationale is clear if these officials, institutions, and policies were held accountable, the reform agenda would necessarily shift from regulating greedy bankers and their bonuses to asking broader questions. Might government mandates contribute to bad behavior by private players?

The reform agenda will, no doubt, be defined by the need to make markets more competitive, democratize credit, introduce a more progressive tax policy, improve the quality and scope of public services, and tackle large scale and petty corruption.

Moreover, the impetus for economic reform has come not from the EU, but from national governments, one of the most successful examples being Agenda 2010, launched a decade ago by then German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder.

It is time to broaden the agenda of global financial reform, which so far has focused on an essential but still limited set of issues, particularly financial regulation. Reform of the global reserve system must be part of that broader agenda.

That the ruling Democratic Party of Japan now seems trapped in a power struggle between Prime Minister Naoto Kan and party power broker Ichiro Ozawa suggests that serious economic reform is not at the top of the DPJ agenda.

Europe needs a clearer and more recognizable global agenda.

Dissidents try to use them to pursue a democratic agenda.

The Lisbon Agenda turned out to be a joke.

Everyone has an agenda, perceived or real.

Indeed, there may be a further hidden agenda behind the 97 proposal.

A new World Bank report provides a practical agenda for building sustainable cities.

While tax reform was high on President Felipe Calderón s agenda during last year s presidential campaign, electoral reform was not. Instead, it has been imposed upon him by a strange and extreme version of political horse trading.

The Bush administration stresses democracy and human rights, which is a good agenda as far as it goes. But it is an agenda for the region s haves, not its have nots.

But, following World War II, his successors developed a much more ambitious agenda.

She then continued speculating about the Israelis hidden agenda behind such offer.

That adds up to a tough reform agenda made all the more challenging by adjustment fatigue, increasingly fragmented domestic politics, and rising geopolitical tensions. In this context, a determined shift toward markedly higher and more inclusive global growth is far from guaranteed.