These include opening the doors of credit for the poor, simplifyingandreducing barriers of entry, liberating education markets, expanding access to clean water, and improving the rule of law.
But she is more than a clever manipulator of the centre: witness her long list of planned reforms, which are quite radical in the German context: simplifying tax, overhauling pensions, reducing job protection and curbing the trade unions.
They could compile a respectable election-year record by reducing the regulatory burden on small businesses, simplifying the vetting of corporate mergers and streamlining judicial procedures.