The Mirage of Structural Reform

Reform process

No other proposal provides for meaningful structural reform of the Security Council.

Deepening the reform of the state oversight system is a major political structural reform related to the overall situation.

The feasibility study requires structural police reform with a view to rationalizing police services.

A rapid reduction in unit labor costs, via acceleration of structural reform and productivity growth relative to wage growth, is also unlikely, as that process took 15 years to restore competitiveness to Germany.

The Office needed a healthy funding base as well as transparency, accountability and structural reform.

Special procedures and the reform process

He looked forward to cooperating with UNHCR on structural reform of the migration service at all levels.

The Security Council's structural reform and the improvement of its working methods should go hand in hand.

UNHCR needed strong partnerships and a healthy funding base, as well as transparency, accountability and structural reform.

Structural reform cannot wait. Nationalism should be channeled toward securing public support for deep economic and social reforms.

Security Council reform is the centrepiece of the reform process in which we are engaged.

In particular, we now have a mandate to launch what has become known around the world as the third arrow of so called Abenomics structural reform. And it is structural reform that will unleash the competitiveness, and long pent up dynamism, of Japan s firms and people.

I am certain that we all agree that reform, any reform, is an ongoing, indivisible process.

Lessons learned by Member States from the reform process

Consensus must guide decision making in the reform process.

China welcomed the momentum achieved in the reform process.

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It is precisely the debate on Security Council reform that gave synergy to the process of reform.

We continue to support the structural reform of the human rights machinery and the establishment of the Human Rights Council.

That the process of reform in education has been started,

Today We, the peoples begin the process of millennium reform.

Premature inflationary pressures are a prime reason that both ECB presidents, the late Wim Duisenberg and now Jean Claude Trichet, have consistently pressed for structural reform in their press conferences and speeches. It is the ECB, after all, that must fight the inflation caused by Europe s lack of structural reform.

The United Nations is not merely on the verge of reform it is already in the process of reform.

Her Office was currently engaged in its own major reform process.

The Palestinian Authority has achieved important results in its reform process.

Reform was not a one off event, but an ongoing process.

PARIS Together with fiscal consolidation, structural reform is the new European mantra. International organizations and European Union bodies regard such reform as a prerequisite of economic recovery, growth, and alleviation of the unemployment plague.

Watching for progress on these key elements of structural change and reform seems to be the right stance. If markets are confused or pessimistic about China s longer term agenda, but if the direction of structural change and reform is positive, there may be investment opportunities that were absent in the more exuberant recent past.

But Spain had a surplus and a low debt ratio before the crisis, and it, too, is in depression. What is needed is not structural reform within Greece and Spain so much as structural reform of the eurozone s design and a fundamental rethinking of the policy frameworks that have resulted in the monetary union s spectacularly bad performance.

But several methodological and structural flaws associated with the poverty reduction strategy papers process render the initiative somewhat less tenable.

In view of the insufficient balance sheet corrections in the private sector and inadequate structural reforms, macroeconomic demand management tools will not work. Despite the ECB s aggressive approach, monetary policy in the absence of structural economic reform risks being ineffective.

We now have a window of opportunity, with the United Nations reform process.

We particularly appreciate his initiative to launch the process of United Nations reform.

This summit should be seen as a starting point for the reform process.

achieving concrete results in the local government reform process will influence prospects for the political process to determine Kosovo's future status .

For Guatemala, Security Council reform is a crucial element, but one that is inevitably linked to the wider process of United Nations reform.

At the recent summit, developing countries had shown themselves courageously determined to pursue structural reform, improve governance, enhance South South cooperation and reinforce self development.

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.

What is at stake is the credibility of the Organization and its reform process.

In particular, I urge Kosovo Serbs to engage in the local government reform process.

Concerning institutional reforms, Viet Nam reaffirms its position that reform of the Security Council is only a part of the United Nations reform process.

Thus, reform of the Security Council is an important element of the broader process of United Nations reform, but it should not monopolize it.

The reform of the United Nations is not an easy process, but unless we reform its most powerful organ, it will remain unfinished business.