Other countries have followed that lead in adopting similar reforms, including Great Britain and Australia.
As I speak, we are on the cusp of enacting the toughest financial reforms since the Great Depression.
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Because our economic future depends on a financial system that encourages sound investments, honest dealings, and long-term growth, we've proposed the most ambitious financial reforms since the Great Depression.
As I have written in other pieces, China has made a great progress in introducing market reforms to its central planning system that have contributed to its robust growth.
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His tragic story has led to great national introspection, fundamental reforms of policing have taken place and partial justice was achieved with the convictions of two of his killers, last year.
While Lady Thatcher was more in tune with the tax-cutting, small-government traditions of Gladstonian liberalism, Mr Blair draws upon the more interventionist traditions and social reforms of the great reforming Liberal governments of 1906-14.
Messrs Skelcher and Davis's research, which predated the Nolan reforms, also found evidence that the great and the good were to a large extent self-selecting: even in quangos where ministers have the final say, they found that most new members were chosen by the existing board often by personal recommendation.
This would include block granting Medicaid to the states as well, to the great benefit of the poor, just as the 1996 reforms greatly benefitted the poor.
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This suggests that big reforms are not needed to start growth, but they are a great help in keeping it going.
This is going to be the most sweeping set of reforms we have contemplated as a country since those put in place after the Great Depression.
To his great regret, successive governments have failed to curb the prison population, a necessary prerequisite for many of his reforms to work.
We do not believe that there is a broad consensus among the American public that we need to roll back Wall Street reforms and we need to adopt the kind of economic policies that led to the worst recession since the Great Depression.
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