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If we continue to focus on macroeconomic policies to stabilise growth, the side effects will increase, and more importantly, the opportunity for structural reform will be missed again,' Liu told a forum last month. (yahoo.com)
The program was based on the National Economic Empowerment and Development Strategy (NEEDS) and focused on four main areas: improving the macroeconomic environment, pursuing structural reforms, strengthening public expenditure management, and implementing institutional and governance reforms. (brookings.edu)
Unfortunately, those macroeconomic reforms have not been followed by microeconomic ones despite several government attempts to jumpstart the structural reform agenda, each time with a long list of policies covering many areas of the economy. (hurriyetdailynews.com)

The Wadhwani Chair in U.S.-India Policy Studies has created a microsite, "India's Economic Reform Agenda: A Scorecard" which serves as a scorecard with a list of thirty big reforms that the Modi government confronted when it took office in June 2019. (csis.org)
It is clear that we will have to wait till 2019 for deep agricultural reforms. (livemint.com)

The long road to reforming New Zealand's alcohol laws has ended amid bitter protests that the legislation was a pale imitation of the landmark Law Commission report it was based on. (nzherald.co.nz)

Apple says its own "serious concerns about the implementation of [proposed] regulatory reforms," include how it believes the ACCC is trying to reform issue that do not exist. (appleinsider.com)

The reduction in the number of resolutions is in line with governance reform and the efforts of the Committee to focus on priorities and actions to which Member States can realistically commit. (who.int)

Focusing on the economic reforms introduced after the financial crisis of 1991, this is a follow-up study to an earlier work tracing India's economy up to 1991. (worldcat.org)

Pundits sometimes act as if "economic reforms" are a light switch that India's central government can turn on and off. (csis.org)
Please join us as we officially launch the "India's Economic Reform Agenda: A Scorecard" microsite. (csis.org)

BEIJING (Reuters) -China's economic slowdown is polarising government advisers over the best way forward, with advocates of structural reforms now emerging from the shadows in a challenge to others calling for more state spending to shore up faltering growth. (yahoo.com)
A dribble of piecemeal support measures from Beijing in recent months has raised questions about the tough choices China's new economic leadership now faces over whether to prioritise short-term relief or long overdue reforms. (yahoo.com)
China's financial reform has rolled down a steep slope tilted by its fast growth, but now the road is littered with risks. (chinadaily.com.cn)
2018 marked the fortieth anniversary of the initiation of China's 'Reform and Opening' period. (lu.se)
By bringing together scholars from China, Europe and elsewhere, this event aims to provide a much needed forum to reflect on, and assess, the legacy of China's four decades of reforms from an interdisciplinary perspective. (lu.se)

We owe this relative stability to the first Justice and Development Party (AKP) government's adherence to the reform agenda that was implemented after the 2001 crisis. (hurriyetdailynews.com)
Besides, trying to tackle it all at once could lead to premature "reform fatigue," which may explain the government's failure at structural reforms so far. (hurriyetdailynews.com)

But the libertarian voucher proponents block an important point out of their minds: Their education reform program violates the libertarian non-aggression principle. (lewrockwell.com)
In 1955 future Nobel Prize?winning economist Milton Friedman kick-started modern education reform with an article titled "The Role of Government in Education. (reason.com)
Fifty years after Friedman's article appeared in the collection Economics and the Public Interest , proposals for education reform take many shapes: legally mandated performance assessments at the state and federal levels, means-tested vouchers, charter schools, homeschooling, and calls for universal vouchers or for the complete separation of school and state, to name just a few. (reason.com)

Some are calling for reviving stalled market reforms amid signs of increased state controls in the economy. (yahoo.com)

W A S H I N G T O N, March 19, 2001 -- While most Americans favor the concept of campaign finance reform, which will consume the Senate for the next two weeks, the issue ranks low on the public's agenda. (go.com)

The reforms did not affect the price of alcohol, but the Ministry of Justice was researching a minimum pricing regime. (nzherald.co.nz)
Aadhaar-based sale of foodgrains and fertilizer is only a small step towards reform of the subsidy regime. (livemint.com)

Our team will update the scorecard on a monthly basis as we see tangible progress on individual reforms. (csis.org)
In each of these areas, he identified specific challenges that affect reform progress, and announced specific efforts to alleviate them. (cacianalyst.org)
She said key reforms have not been made and political party differences stand in the way of shared progress. (globalsecurity.org)
This documented briefing examines both the acceptance/progress of current acquisition reform efforts and the factors affecting the support for these efforts within the Army's acquisition work force. (rand.org)
These meetings provided an excellent opportunity to review with ministers of health and senior government officials progress in addressing key priorities since the previous Regional Committee and have had a positive impact in strengthening Member States' engagement in global discussions on health and WHO reform. (who.int)
A senior management retreat was held to review the progress and challenges in relation to the regional priorities, including management reform. (who.int)

During his twelve-year rule, he established reforms that he felt would deal with the economic crisis in the Andes. (wikipedia.org)
In particular, restoring economic growth will require renewed credit flows, while some of the needed reforms may limit the ability of financial institutions to meet this need, at least in the near term. (imf.org)
Following years of economic stagnation, Nigeria embarked on a comprehensive reform program during the second term of the Obasanjo administration. (brookings.edu)
This paper reviews Nigeria's recent experience with economic reforms and outlines major policy measures that have been implemented. (brookings.edu)
Consequently, we argue that the recent reform program must be viewed as the initial steps of a much longer journey of economic recovery and sustained growth. (brookings.edu)
U.S. and Arab officials Tuesday spoke in favor of freer trade and economic reform at a Washington forum sponsored by the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). (voanews.com)
This sentiment was echoed by Egypt's ambassador to Washington, Nabil Fahmy, who said his country is pursuing market based reform in order to boost economic growth to six to eight percent annually. (voanews.com)
Economic and political reform in the Middle East has been endorsed by the leaders of Western Europe, Russia, North America, and Japan. (voanews.com)
Economic reform lags throughout the Middle East and only a few Arab countries are members of the trade promoting World Trade Organization (WTO). (voanews.com)
We are actively engaged in helping countries accede to the WTO who are not in the WTO because obviously that is a foundational element of how you can move up the chain of economic reform and trade policy reform," she explained. (voanews.com)
Perhaps the most serious long-term economic danger of welfare reform is that increasing the supply of cheap labor may undermine incentives to invest in productivity-enhancing technologies. (technologyreview.com)
Tariff Reform in a Small Open Economy with Public Production ," International Economic Review , Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania and Osaka University Institute of Social and Economic Research Association, vol. 33(1), pages 209-222, February. (repec.org)
On the Theory of Piecemeal Tariff Reform: The Case of Pure Imported Intermediate Inputs ," American Economic Review , American Economic Association, vol. 82(3), pages 615-625, June. (repec.org)
While the political aspects of reforms in Kazakhstan have gained considerable attention, economic reforms are an equally strong focus of President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev's policy agenda. (cacianalyst.org)
Economic reform has long been the cornerstone of Kazakhstan's reform agenda. (cacianalyst.org)
Under First President Nursultan Nazarbayev, the government followed an explicit policy that prioritized economic reforms, leaving political matters to a later day. (cacianalyst.org)

But it was possible to build a consensus on this reform only when sugar prices were high. (livemint.com)

These priorities are then translated into our annual policy reform objectives. (ebrd.com)

After all, reforming financial regulation is politically difficult, and no doubt some will worry that it could complicate efforts to get credit flowing again. (imf.org)

In my Jackson Hole blogs last August, I singled out reforming financial sector regulation as a key task facing policymakers. (imf.org)
But this would all be pointless pontification unless I explained how policymakers could go about choosing the most important reforms. (hurriyetdailynews.com)

Campaign finance reform doesn't hit them where they live. (go.com)
Even in the New Hampshire Republican primary, which lifted Sen. John McCain to stardom, just 9 percent of voters cited campaign finance reform as the most important issue in their vote, placing it fifth out of seven issues tested. (go.com)
But these same polls also found questions in the publics mind about how well campaign finance reform would work, and whether it's really needed. (go.com)
And campaign finance reform has thus far failed to move up on the public agenda. (go.com)

Americans for Campaign Reform (ACR) is bipartisan community of citizens who believe passionately that public funding of federal elections is the single most critical long-term public policy issue our nation faces. (idealist.org)
Although there have been notable achievements under the program, significant challenges exist, particularly in translating the benefits of reforms into welfare improvements for citizens, in improving the domestic business environment, and in extending reform policies to states and local governments. (brookings.edu)
These security threats on the government itself have caused a national outrage among citizens thus prompting the much-needed reforms in cybersecurity laws in the country. (ananova.com)
We can either talk about abstraction, or we can talk about real people," said Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-Texas), at a hearing on Tuesday, where Democrats invited ordinary citizens to testify about how health reform has helped them personally. (motherjones.com)

But pro-reform advisers argue the stimulus playbook that helped drive growth for decades has run its course and that bolder structural changes to the economy are now needed. (yahoo.com)
The best chance in three decades to rewrite immigration laws has slipped away just one year after the Senate garnered 68 votes for sweeping reform of the system, 20 months after strong Hispanic turnout for Democrats in the 2012 election sparked a GOP panic, and five years after Obama promised to act. (politico.com)
It was the introduction of the fixed-dose combination antibiotics in the 1950s, especially Panalba (tetracycline/novobiocin), that reinforced the need for real reform, a movement that dragged on for several decades before coming to fruition with the acceptance of the requirement for controlled clinical studies to prove the efficacy, as well as the safety, of antimicrobial agents. (cdc.gov)

The ink was barely dry on the patent reform bill that was approved by the House of Representatives on Sept. 7 when speculation began over the fate of the legislation in the Senate, where stiff opposition awaits key provisions long sought by the technology sector. (eweek.com)
But the president's attempt to highlight his commitment to comprehensive reform going all the way back to his Senate days only incensed the group, which interpreted his remark as a knock on their own dedication to the cause. (politico.com)
Most of the reforms approved by the Chamber of Deputies on Thursday will go back to the Senate. (ipsnews.net)

The House version, H.R. 1908: the Patent Reform Act of 2007, limits damages to the actual value of the infringed technology, not the entire product containing the contested patent. (eweek.com)
Johnson, speaking on behalf of the Coalition for 21st Century Patent Reform, which has questioned many of the provisions in the Patent Reform Act of 2007, said companies like Johnson & Johnson are not opposed to patent reform, per se. (eweek.com)

But the flood of low-cost labor that welfare reform is creating may well persuade at least some organizations to postpone technological upgrading and defer training. (technologyreview.com)
The challenge is to implement welfare reform in a way that is attentive to the dignity, incomes, and life chances of those being shoved into the (low-wage) labor market, but that also protects the hard-won gains of established workers-all without further undermining employers' willingness to invest in technology and training. (technologyreview.com)
This report describes the results of cognitive interview research on questions about welfare reform benefits which were contained in both the 1998 and 1999 March Income Supplement of the Current Population Survey (CPS). (cdc.gov)
The cognitive interview research described in this report was the second (and final) phase of a project designed to evaluate the questions about participation in welfare reform benefits and to develop improvements for the March 2000 CPS. (cdc.gov)
those results guided the development of revised questions on receipt of welfare reform benefits, which were then tested in the cognitive interviews. (cdc.gov)

Since 2012, the WHO governing bodies have been discussing options for promoting more strategic decision-making in the context of WHO reform. (who.int)
Acquisition reform, in this context, is limited to three initiatives: (1) the discontinued use of military specifications and standards, (2) the use of integrated product teams (IPTs), and (3) greater use of government-industry "partnerships" in the procurement process. (rand.org)
In this article, we present the theoretical constructions that allow us to reflect upon the conceptions, paths and designs of qualitative evaluation studies on mental health, in the psychiatric reform context. (bvsalud.org)

The] real-world market outcomes which will result from the proposed 'reforms' relevant to Apple, if they are implemented in the form proposed, would reduce incentives for dynamic firms like Apple to innovate and develop new and differentiated products. (appleinsider.com)
Its programmatic reform objective is to improve global and regional health outcomes by focusing on its comparative advantages. (who.int)
This book provides an analysis of the process and outcomes of the tax reform, with a focus on progressivity, redistribution, and inequality. (lu.se)

[9] Its aim was to remove the influence of former premier Thaksin Shinawatra from Thai politics by deposing the incumbent Pheu Thai government of Yingluck Shinawatra and creating an unelected "People's Council" to oversee political reforms. (wikipedia.org)
Shanghai responded that it will submit about 30 transplantable reform policies to the central government this year after testing them for risks. (chinadaily.com.cn)
In recent times the government has been steadily going back on its commitment to land reforms in India. (countercurrents.org)
With the aggressive posturing by the ruling party vis-a-vis the opposition, there was hardly any possibility of opposition-ruled states agreeing to such reforms but the government did not make any serious effort to persuade even the National Democratic Alliance (NDA)-ruled states to go for DBTs for PDS , even in food-surplus regions. (livemint.com)
BUENOS AIRES, Apr 26 2013 (IPS) - Comprehensive judicial reforms pushed by the government of Argentina on the argument that they will democratise the justice system are moving ahead in Congress in the midst of staunch resistance by the opposition, heated debate, and threats of future lawsuits challenging them as unconstitutional. (ipsnews.net)
The opposition parties in Congress refused to set forth complementary ideas, arguing that the aim of the reforms is to increase government control over the judiciary, and saying they pose a threat to the country's institutions. (ipsnews.net)
It was a good start, and a surprising declaration from a government that has been slow to really focus on necessary reform to the patent system. (techdirt.com)

Reaction among members of Congress, who are debating proposed reforms to immigration laws, also ranged from enthusiastic to lukewarm to outright rejection. (bbc.co.uk)
President Barack Obama paused for what felt like an eternity to the immigration reform activists seated around the Roosevelt Room. (politico.com)
For their part, reformers underestimated how impervious most House Republicans would be to persuasion from evangelicals, law enforcement and big business, and how the GOP's animus toward Obama over health care and executive actions would bleed into immigration reform. (politico.com)

The People's Democratic Reform Committee (PDRC) or People's Committee for Absolute Democracy with the King as Head of State (PCAD) [note 1] was a reactionary [ citation needed ] umbrella political pressure group in Thailand . (wikipedia.org)
After three consecutive election victories for various Thaksin-backed political parties, the newly formed People's Democratic Reform Committee, a coalition of Yellow Shirt groups fiercely opposed to the ruling Pheu Thai party, decided to begin street protests in Bangkok. (wikipedia.org)
Land Reforms are a forgotten subjects for the political parties and the policy makers. (countercurrents.org)
Though most of the major changes under the Affordable Care Act won't take effect until 2014, Democrats deliberately frontloaded the law with key reforms early on, in hopes of building political support for the measure. (motherjones.com)
To that end, one of the Democrats' biggest challenges in both protecting the law and improving its political appeal will be to educate the potential beneficiaries about the specific aspects of reform that help them. (motherjones.com)

Here you'll find tax reform news releases, fact sheets, statements and much more. (irs.gov)
The voice of our junior doctors signals an urgent cry for reform," Álvaro Cerame, MSc, chairperson of the EJD Medical Workforce Committee and first author of the report, told Medscape Medical News . (medscape.com)

WHO continued to follow up on its commitment to strengthen technical and managerial capacity in countries, and to carry out a process of comprehensive reform in regard to its work in the Region. (who.int)

Although milspec and standard reform have strong support within the work force, the data suggest that resistance to reform efforts is largely related to one's functional domain within the work force. (rand.org)
The Antibiotic Era: Reform, Resistance, and the Pursuit of a Rational Therapeutics takes a unique approach by presenting a well-documented history, starting in the earliest days with the introduction of antimicrobial drugs to the present time. (cdc.gov)

China needs both, whereas it is where it is now because historically it's relied more on policy stimulus than on the harder structural reforms,' he said. (yahoo.com)
Why policy reform? (ebrd.com)
Policy reforms are at the core of the EBRD's work to help the countries where we work make the transition to a competitive, well-governed, green, inclusive, resilient and integrated market economies. (ebrd.com)
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and European Union Foreign Policy Chief Catherine Ashton have told Bosnian leaders they must put aside divisions and make substantive reforms to advance toward membership in NATO and the European Union. (globalsecurity.org)

Revenue enhancing tariff reform ," Review of World Economics (Weltwirtschaftliches Archiv) , Springer;Institut für Weltwirtschaft (Kiel Institute for the World Economy), vol. 130(1), pages 175-190, March. (repec.org)
Piecemeal trade reform in presence of producer-specific domestic subsidies ," Economics Letters , Elsevier, vol. 39(1), pages 65-71, May. (repec.org)
Piecemeal Trade Reform in Presence of Producer-Specific Domestic Subsidies ," Staff General Research Papers Archive 1575, Iowa State University, Department of Economics. (repec.org)
Piecemeal tax reforms and the compensated radial elasticities of tax bases ," Journal of Public Economics , Elsevier, vol. 45(2), pages 263-270, July. (repec.org)

It is the only state so far to use competition among private insurers as the centerpiece of its Medicaid reform. (stateline.org)

It is ironical that the 'biggest' democracy of the world does not give the issue of land reforms a priority. (countercurrents.org)
They've now trotted out those benefits as the Republicans have made health care repeal the first priority of their new House majority-even creating a map that details the benefits of reform by each congressional district. (motherjones.com)

In making the reform effort operational, the Financial Stability Board (FSB) will take the leading role in coordinating the development of new global standards for regulation and supervision. (imf.org)
Beyond regulation and supervisory reforms, the question remains, "Who should bear the cost of crisis mitigation? (imf.org)

The regional reform agenda was translated into a plan to improve administration and management based on increased empowerment of staff and creation of an enabling environment for sharing best practices and developing future practices. (who.int)

The reform bill prohibits insurers from setting these coverage caps. (motherjones.com)

If the reform measure that a libertarian is proposing involves the initiation of force or fraud, then it cannot possibly be considered to be a genuine libertarian measure or one that it is advancing liberty. (lewrockwell.com)

With this in mind, the main goal of this study was to evaluate, on one hand, the curriculum reform, by comparing the diagnostic knowledge of students of the old and of the new curriculum, and, on the other hand, the views of these students on the course and their professional aptitudes. (bvsalud.org)

For the past 25 years or so, the libertarian movement has been dominated by libertarian reformers - that is, those libertarians who have dedicated their lives, energy, time, and money to reform proposals intended to make the welfare-warfare state work more efficiently and more effectively. (lewrockwell.com)
In the process, they have convinced themselves and others that they are advancing liberty and libertarianism with their welfare-warfare-state reform proposals. (lewrockwell.com)
There are, of course, countless reform proposals that libertarian reformers have made over the years and continue to make. (lewrockwell.com)

Between 1977 and 1986, Spain underwent a comprehensive tax reform which shaped its fiscal system until today. (lu.se)

In reality, the process of reforming the economy is nuanced, involving a diverse set of issues and actors. (csis.org)
So one of the main reasons we're interested in an FTA [free trade agreement with the United States] is to energize our own reform process back home," he said. (voanews.com)
It concerns the process of healthcare reform -- a legislative process -- and the way in which laws, which have been a long time in coming, are going to be implemented. (medscape.com)

MPs passed the reforms yesterday, which means that in 12 months' time bars will have to close earlier, alcohol promotions will be limited and parents will have to give express consent to allow minors to drink. (nzherald.co.nz)
Meanwhile, structural reforms would bring short-term pain and take longer to boost activity, but produce higher quality, sustainable growth over time. (yahoo.com)

Clearly, the importance of adequate funding to the positive outcome of reform efforts cannot be overstated. (edweek.org)

The Civil Justice Council has published a paper on technical aspects of implementing Jackson LJ's civil litigation costs reforms. (lexology.com)

Surprisingly, the COVID-19 pandemic did not do much to force Tokayev's focus away from his long-term reforms, despite the billions of dollars spent on income assistance and other anti-crisis packages. (cacianalyst.org)

One of the most heavily debated reforms was the one that would regulate and set deadlines for the application of indefinite court injunctions, which often keep laws from going into effect for years. (ipsnews.net)

The pro-reform camp is beating the drum for faster structural reforms, including relaxing the system of residence permits, or 'hukou', to spur consumption, removing market entry barriers for private firms at the cost of state giants. (yahoo.com)
Long ago, libertarian voucher proponents claimed that their reform proposal would gradually bring about the destruction of the public-school system. (lewrockwell.com)
Late last year, the FTC came up with a series of pretty good suggestions for reforming the patent system. (techdirt.com)

Shavkat Mirziyoyev's reforms, which were meant to usher in a new era for the key Central Asian country, appear to have stalled. (foreignpolicy.com)
Uzbekistan's stalled road to reform matters for the country, for the region, and for Washington. (foreignpolicy.com)
As Republicans seek to repeal health care reform, they have assaulted "Obamacare" as a job-killing, freedom-crushing behemoth that's pushed the country onto the path to socialism. (motherjones.com)

Pre-reform, about 18,600 to 20,400 people hit a lifetime limit in insurance coverage each year and were denied coverage for claims above this ceiling. (motherjones.com)
How Will Healthcare Reform Affect Psychiatry Coverage? (medscape.com)

She felt that reform needed to be led by the Ministry of Health, not the Justice Ministry. (nzherald.co.nz)
The minister has directed the professionals in the Education Ministry to formulate a new outline to replace the now-discarded reforms. (israelnationalnews.com)

The Toledo Reforms were a series of reforms implemented by Francisco Álvarez de Toledo to Spain's policies in the Viceroyalty of Peru in the 1570s. (wikipedia.org)

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