Now, I wonder if they don't feel a little impotent, all of the above being beset by structural problems which were not, largely, of this government's making and which seem immune to every attempt at reform.
Progress on those fronts, the fund said, will help overcome the economy's main structural problems, which it defined as "a declining rate of productivity growth, low profit margins and a deteriorating export performance".
In June, when it was officially announced that Madia would be overseeing the audit, people working within ITER hoped that the organization's deep structural problems, which have been plaguing the project for years, contributing to endless delays and rising costs, would finally find clear articulation, and that constructive ways to fix them would be found.
And this is only one symptom of wider structural problems which the country failed to tackle when it was enjoying an economic tailwind.The government of President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, who is serving his second term, had promised to grapple with the problems of Indonesia's awful infrastructure, foot-dragging bureaucrats and rampant corruption.
Japan of course is hobbled by severe structural problems, which it is dealing with only incrementally.
He added there were deep structural problems which needed to be addressed.
Mr. McNerney said engineers had settled on a way to fix the structural problem, which involved unexpected stress where the wings attach to the fuselage.
But that glosses over a long-term structural problem which makes them more of a burden than a benefit to the national economy.
It is a structural problem, which cannot be solved by pretending it doesn't exist, or that it's just a matter of "catching up" with private sector productivity.Monty Maclean StockholmSIR –You said the recent economic crisis had resulted in "far greater acceptance that government is broken", and that states should emulate private enterprise.
The first is a structural problem which restricts access to finance for innovative firms.
Then, the proposed model can be used to solve an interesting structural problem which relates the determination of time intervals for structural maintenance plans based on structural safety.
