The phrase "marginal reforms" is correct and usable in written English
It can be used to describe small or incremental changes made to a system or policy rather than sweeping or radical changes.
Example: "The government implemented marginal reforms to improve the efficiency of the public transportation system."
Alternatives: "incremental changes" or "minor adjustments"
And not just marginal reform, but full public funding of campaigns for higher office.
Co-opters try to talk people into settling for too little, for marginal, inadequate reforms or change.
During the market transition process, a highly successful "dual system" (dual price and dual ownership) surfaced, as well as a "dual channel of reform" (government-led, top-down, "top-design" reform and grassroots-driven, bottom-up, "marginal revolution" reform), which marks the unique situation in China as compared to a Western market economy (Coase and Wang Ning 2013, 213).
We do so by calculating the marginal effects of reforms on the change in unemployment at the different deciles of the gap growth variable.
Evaluating the size of these interactions requires calculating marginal effects of reforms for different levels of economic activity (and their corresponding standard errors).
Demographic change cannot be tackled with marginal or partial reforms.
Probably the most common economic goal is maximization, according to which efficiency dictates that reform should continue up to the point where the marginal benefit of reform is equal to its marginal cost.
The latter argue that the adoption of a flat-rate tax with the crucial proviso that it be considerably lower than the highest pre-reform marginal rate would on the one hand increase the incentive of the highest-income, and by implication most productive, earners to work more, and on the other increase tax revenue by making tax compliance more attractive (the so-called Laffer effect).
Some English policy-makers hope that CCGs will compete for patients, but that has been a marginal theme in NHS reforms.
Still to come: The House GOP wants a 25% top marginal tax rate; health reform's Medicaid expansion may run up against doctor shortages in some states; voters oppose GOP governors' budget plans; the EPA is moving ahead with new power plant emissions regulations; and street art that uses Legos.
