Indonesia is, like India, a populous, fast-growing country that is allowing rapid growth to undermine the case for domestic reforms, and key changes to labour laws and energy subsidies will be set aside for another year.
If different changes to labour market regulation were passed within a single reform package (e.g. changes in both notice period and severance payments for permanent contracts), these interventions are coded separately.
See articleIn an early test of its commitment to reform, the new Spanish government approved a set of changes to labour laws designed to allow companies both to employ workers more easily, but also to sack them.
Mr Monti has already passed a pension reform and is soon to propose labour reforms of his own (see article).
His response has been to promote young advisers and espouse many of his opponents' arguments, such as the need for political reform, changes to the labour code and modernisation of the state.
Total reforms are the number of changes to the labour market legislation passed in each country annually.
The quickening pace of globalisation, changes to the labour market, the rise of robots and supercomputers, and the urgent need for social security reform are here to stay.
Lawmakers are studying pension reform to reduce the future burden of state payments, and labour reforms to cut employment costs.
July: Sepp secures a pledge of labour reforms to bring about "positive social change", and pins the slave state stories on the "racist" British media.
Constitutional changes would be put forward by the end of February, labour reforms by March and improvements to bureaucracy the following month.
