Boosting economic competitiveness and further reforms to the single market in areas such as services and energy were "best pursued" by all EU members and not just eurozone countries, they stressed.
One of the reforms is the introduction of the single, universal credit to replace six income-related, work-based benefits.
Macaulay took a personal interest in running five new English medium schools which opened in Bengal, a year and a half after the reforms began in 1835 - in a single town in Bengal, he wrote, 1, 400 boys were learning English.
The differences between the various economies that use the single currency can only be narrowed by making deep structural reforms.
His own reforms, such as introducing a simplified, single-rate foreign-exchange mechanism, private banks and mobile phones, remain on the drawing-board.
They include not just the launch of the single currency but also the agriculture and regional-aid reforms put forward in Agenda 2000.
However, under his reforms the majority of pupils would sit a single examination rather than being split into those taking lower valued CSEs and more academic O-levels.
The government has mooted reforms that would reduce May Day observance to a single day and distribute the rest over a series of one-day holidays for the traditional Tomb Sweeping day, Dragon Boat festival and Mid-Autumn festival.
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Delivering these reforms would be a powerful demonstration of commitment to preserve the single currency.
As a result, Ron Haskins of the Brookings Institution reports in his book evaluating the 1996 welfare reforms, Work Over Welfare, nearly 4.2 million single mothers and children climbed out of poverty, reducing the poverty rate by one-third.
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And even before states have received a single dime of taxpayer money, many of them have committed to instituting important reforms to better position themselves for a Race to the Top grant.
Some provisions attempt to improve efficiency through administrative reforms, by, for example, requiring insurance companies to create a single standardized form for insurance reimbursement, to alleviate the clerical burden on clinicians.
And finally, as labour-market and other reforms (however modest) in Europe have slowly eased the way towards a genuine single market, firms are understandably focusing on building a stronger pan-European competitive position.
One of the major reforms is expanding the Patient Centered Medical Home (PCMH) model, in which a single provider or practice coordinates patient care, including tracking referrals, maintaining electronic health records and communicating data to other providers.
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They said the country had implemented reforms requested by Brussels and must now be granted relief by the ECB, or the future of the single currency will be threatened.
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