The German cabinet approved a wide-ranging package of new measures of reform, covering welfare, the labour market, municipal finance, and more.
Negotiating the plan has involved hectic late-night sessions in which outside officials have given locals copious instructions on the details of reform measures and the lobbying needed to gain support for them.
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Disarmament of paramilitary groups is meant to happen in parallel with the establishment of new political structures and a wide-ranging reform of policing, equality measures and criminal justice, which would also include the progressive disarmament of the security forces.
Both a second round of pension reform and measures to make it easier to hire and fire are making only slow progress.
It was the scholarly Mr Singh, in fact, as a Congress finance minister in 1991, who initiated India's biggest-ever package of reform and liberalisation measures.
While the IOCs have registered their support for industry reform and many of the measures laid out by the PIB, the effects of the new fiscal regime on shareholder returns are substantial.
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And in particular, we'll take a look at how states are doing when it comes to four key measures of reform.
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The share of patient spending has since fallen as the government began to address the problem (see chart) but the latest reform measures are part of an accelerated drive to overhaul the system.
"First, we urge the government to implement supply-side reforms - particularly reform of the tax system, measures to encourage private sector investment in infrastructure and introducing more flexible employment laws to facilitate businesses' ability to react swiftly to volatile conditions, " he said.
India has been pressing for a rating upgrade on the back of the several reform measures that the government has taken since September to revive investments and growth and to rein in its fiscal deficit, which has been under watch by rating agencies.
In its prior corporate strategy announcement, Sony stated that through the combination of these structural reform measures and business portfolio realignment it expected to reduce headcount across the entire Sony Group, primarily in the electronics business, by approximately 10, 000 in the fiscal year ending March 31, 2013 ("FY12"), including approximately 3, 000 to 4, 000 in Japan.
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And there are a variety of other measures that are part of this corporate tax reform that would make American businesses much more competitive.
We've talked a lot about the interplay between border security as part of a broader -- and other measures that are part of comprehensive immigration reform.
Whoever leads this hypothetical government would have to draw up a list of tasks, starting with the election of the new president of the Republic and moving on to election reform, parliamentary reform and other measures which Mr Grillo might support, like conflicts of interest, corruption and cutting the costs of politics.
The fiscal pressure may make the most unpalatable measures, such as a reform of state pensions, economically inescapable.
Instead, his second term focused on deficit reduction, Medicare reform, implementing welfare reform and narrower measures such as the creation of the v-chip to protect under-aged television viewers from edgy programs and the expansion of Medicaid to cover children.
It will include immigration reform, tougher measures to stem an epidemic of gun violence, new measures to curb the emissions of carbon gases, new spending that not only build and repair infrastructure but prepare for the green technology jobs of tomorrow.
For the next 20 years, using flashy names like Fiscal Structural Reform Act, Emergency Employment Measures and Policy Measures of Economic Rebirth, the government cut taxes, increased spending and borrowed money to finance itself.
Italy has had a caretaker government for months, led by economist Mario Monti, a Napolitano appointee whose harsh austerity measures of higher taxes, pension reform and slashed spending helped keep Italy from succumbing to the debt crisis.
The Home Office claims that although it is as determined as ever not to dilute any of the main measures in the police reform bill, the atmosphere in which talks are continuing is now much less hostile.
But this is really an argument for labour-market reform to minimise the cost of recessions, not one for measures to prevent them altogether.
We are committing economic self-flagellation by ignoring antidumping reform in this country, where 80 percent of all antidumping measures in place restrict crucial manufacturing inputs.
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President Barack Obama has worked closely with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to pass health care reform and other measures, but there are a number of private-sector figures whose names appear more frequently in White House visitor records.
There are a series of other pieces of his revenue proposal that deal with some reform measures, like capping deductions and other issues, and then there would be a separate or additional tax reform process that is something that both sides have sought in a so-called two-stage deal.
Vicky Ford, a British MEP who negotiated for the parliament, said that while the bonus restrictions would be "tricky" for industry, key pro-business measures were secured in other parts of the reform.
And the fact is that a lot of the measures the President talked about, certainly patent reform and free trade agreements and other issues, could have been addressed already and should be addressed immediately upon the return of Congress.
Since September, the government has taken several fiscal reform measures such as allowing regular increases in state-set discounted prices of diesel and capping the number of LPG cylinders available to families at subsidized rates.
So even if voters do begin to look at social programs, the safety net, health care reform, other so-called progressive measures, it will not be a replay of the new deal.
They can also use the break to consolidate privatization and other reform measures, and to focus on new strategies, from increasing the quantity of international exports to improving the quality of the domestic workforce.
The string of measures was a strange mixture of well-meaning steps at social reform, half-baked schemes for quasi-socialist industrial planning, regulation to protect consumers, welfare programs to help the hardest hit, government support for the cartelization of industry, higher wages for some, lower wages for others, on the one hand government pump priming, on the other public economy.
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