Sentence examples for serious structural reform from inspiring English sources

However, this survey will argue that the Schwarzenegger governorship actually offers the state its best chance of serious structural reform for at least a generation.

What the Senate really needs is not more prospective Presidents but serious structural reform — including the end of the filibuster and other forms of parliamentary perniciousness, as well as the reinvention, or reinvigoration, of the committee structure.

Nicolas Véron, an economist and a senior fellow at Bruegel, a Brussels-based research institute, said that regardless of who ultimately controls the levers of government, "the key question is whether we can have serious structural reform".

There are mutterings in the market that, unless the government bites the bullet and pursues serious structural reform, especially of the country's rickety banking system, a dollar might fetch ¥200 in the not-too-distant future.

Economists have long argued that Italy needs to carry out serious structural reforms to stay competitive.

But America might accept a weaker yen were it combined with serious structural reforms.

Ironically, that safety net is also their undoing; it buffers them from understanding the need to make serious structural reforms.

She clearly had France in mind, saying that Europe's second-largest economy was only "on the way" to doing serious structural reforms.

He said the country had carried out "very serious" structural reforms in recent years, including reducing the public sector, raising the retirement age and changing the social security system.

But 2016 was going to be a bumpy year until central banks responded with extra stimulus, he warned, saying: "The big thing that should happen is [that] China should stop kicking the can down the road and get on with some serious structural reforms".

And I wanted to explain what had gone wrong in the boom years to the BBC's millions of viewers, listeners and readers – in the hope that there would then be the kind of national debate that would lead to serious structural reforms of economy and financial system.