In other words, unlike someone who wears a belt and suspenders, if one structural member fails, there is no redundant system to prevent collapse.

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Mr Miller's economics minister, Jerzy Hausner, has produced a medium-term plan for belt-tightening that includes bold structural reforms, such as raising the retirement age for women to that for men, and the trimming of automatic indexation of some benefits.

ECONOMIST: Polish politics