Crisis and reform
Essays on the Political Economy of Crisis and Reform
... causes reform blockage and redistribution of resources from insider family members to outsider ...a crisis reduces the willingness to reform in a range of the insider share where the individualistic ...
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Financial crisis, structure and reform.
... financial reform index. The financial reform index shows that reforms have advanced substantially in many countries in the past 30 ...banking crisis between 20 and 40 percent, whereas other countries ...
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The IMF and the Global Crisis: Role and Reform
... IMF reform, in particular in the area of governance and legitimacy, take the view enunciated by Rahm Emanuel: “You don’t ever want a crisis to go to waste; it’s an opportunity to do important things that ...
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The Politics of Economic Reform in Thailand: Crisis and Compromise
... economic crisis and the already enormous debt burden made additional borrowing to fund needed infrastructure projects ...enterprise reform and privatization found their way onto the policy agenda during the ...
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Financial Reform after the Crisis: An Early Assessment
... ongoing crisis creates a political demand for action, and action at a fundamental level is prevented by the bias towards forbearance, policymakers can be tempted to adopt a punitive attitude toward the financial ...
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The Crisis Imperative: Crisis Rhetoric and Welfare State Reform in Belgium and the Netherlands in the Early 1990s
... a crisis and the opponents of change ultimately gave up their protests in the end, then why did structural transformation not occur? The institutionalized disposition of capital and information, and access to ...
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Beyond the Crisis: Financial Regulatory Reform in Emerging Asia
... the crisis well into its second year, lessons drawn from recent events have led to specific reform proposals with concrete implementation plans in various global ...well-established crisis management ...
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Post-Crisis Financial Reform in Korea: A Critical Appraisal
... economic crisis of 1997-98 South Korea has undertaken a number of financial reforms under IMF ...the crisis may have lessened, as suggested by the World Bank, the urgency for full financial ...
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Fiscal Crisis, Social Security Reform and Vulnerable Population
... Fiscal Crisis, Social Security Reform and Vulnerable Population Summary: The aging process we are witnessing in the majority of developed countries is raising financial sustainability problems in the ...
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The consequences of the Global Financial Crisis : the rhetoric of reform and regulation
... debt crisis in Southern Europe, even though the EU repeatedly took steps to shore up the Greek economy and avoid contagion in ...can reform efforts, ostensibly among the most comprehensive, have amounted to ...
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A Suicide Crisis in Britain's Age of Reform, 1815-1830
... this crisis on English society? It was not a unidirectional embrace of secular values, as MacDonald proposes - serving to undermine old religious injunctions against suicide as the scope of public sympathy and an ...
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Economic crisis and social policy reform in Korea 1
... the crisis, the government’s budget allocated to unemployment-related policy was very limited, and unemployment insurance was only at the initial stage of ...economic crisis, the national pension scheme did ...
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Tort Reform: Crisis or Inevitable Capitalism Courtney Fuhriman
... “You can’t be pro-‐doctor and pro-‐patient and pro-‐plaintiff ’s attorney at the same time.” (Zegart 2004) George Bush’s assertion is exactly the dilemma the country faces today. Who do we support? Do we look to the ...
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Globalization, Crisis Contagion and the Reform of the International Financial Architecture
... world of global finance we will have to live with crises and their regional spillover effects. The IFA reform proposals as announced by the IMF web-site (http://www:imf.org/ ) do not appear to have given adequate ...
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Study of Financial Regulatory Reform in the Post-Crisis Era
... regulatory reform cannot be made timely in line with liberalization of financial markets and innovation of financial products, regulatory failure will occur definitely, which would trigger accumulation and ...
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Did Bankruptcy Reform Contribute to the Mortgage Crisis? 1
... bankruptcy reform changed this situation by raising the cost of filing and by making some higher-income and higher-asset debtors ...bankruptcy reform therefore contribute to the foreclosure crisis by ...
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The Housing Crisis and Bankruptcy Reform: The Prepackaged Chapter 13 Approach
... housing crisis threatens to destroy hundreds of billions of dollars of value by causing homeowners with negative equity to walk away from their ...a reform of Chapter 13 that would allow homeowners to strip ...
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How to waste a crisis : budget cuts and public service reform
... Abstract In the aftermath of the financial crisis, governments have proposed sav- ing money by reforming public services. This paper argues that tight budget constraints make reform harder. Governments are ...
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Economic Crisis and Public Sector Reform: Lessons from Ireland
... danger of collapse. The coalition partners recognize that they would suffer calamitous defeat if they were to call an election, and so they have made a virtue of their tough stance and deep unpopularity. There is a ...
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The Stability and Growth Pact - crisis and reform
... a reform of the Stability and Growth Pact (Fischer et ...the reform, which was agreed in early 2005, introduced greater discretion, leniency and political control ...
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