But longer term structural issues are weighing down labor markets as well.

Second, domestic de leveraging dynamics are aggravating other structural impediments.

For all of China s long term structural problems, it is not exactly slipping into recession.

One must add structural problems to this mix problems that have not been dealt with since the crisis erupted.

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But the surplus merely masks the structural problems of China s domestic economic sectors and poorer regions.

This is certainly true of Greece, whose structural problems are much more sweeping than even its financial difficulties.

Of course, China s economy has structural and institutional problems what developing country does not? China s macroeconomic policies are probably still too administrative.

Of course, China s economy has structural and institutional problems what developing country does not?

The key question is whether structural problems or institutional and political factors are hindering the development of intra regional trade.

These structural impediments cannot be removed.

andyxianwong sees structural flaws in the proposal

But just as the pre crisis credit boom masked underlying structural problems, post crisis credit constraints have greatly amplified the downturn.

The joint interim administration will inherit the structural weakness of the State of Cambodia party and must begin immediately to improve its capacity to generate revenue.

For all of its economic success during the past two decades, not least since the 2008 crisis, industry is hollowing out, and structural issues are beginning to be felt.

Local governments are equally careless, often failing to service their debts. In addition, various structural problems including large and growing income disparities are causing serious disequilibrium in the economy.

In addition, various structural problems including large and growing income disparities are causing serious disequilibrium in the economy.

But we also need other structural measures.

There will be appeals to the European Central Bank to expand the monetary base, as if imitating the dollar were the answer to all the industrial, structural, and demographic problems plaguing Europe.

But economists debate the extent to which these conditions reflect a cyclical demand shortfall or more structural problems that a monetary stimulus cannot remedy.

Negotiators will also have to overcome significant structural obstacles.

Likewise, competitiveness losses have been partly reversed as wages have lagged productivity growth, thus reducing unit labor costs, and some structural reforms are ongoing.

For example, like much of the country, Gansu Province, at China s geographical center, is grappling with structural and social problems that range from the daunting to the apparently insuperable.

But a global growth pact looks even more indispensable today, given the world economy s structural problems and huge imbalances between production and consumption.

Spain has the same fiscal and structural problems that it had prior to the OMT program s launch, but now it has an external lender of last resort.

Structural factors go a long way to explain this deficiency.

France urgently needs structural reforms and thus a strong government.

Recognizing also that structural changes in international commodity markets, particularly the increasing concentration in trade and distribution, constitute new challenges for commodity producers and exporters in developing countries,

Meanwhile, the types of structural changes that Argentina needs have not been made.

Structural and competitive impediments to growth have been largely ignored.

And never mind growth enhancing structural reforms.

We are determined to press ahead with the structural reforms needed to succeed.

What the best structural reforms actually are remains a matter for debate.

Moreover, it implies that the crisis is fully under European control, and that the European authorities have elaborated a comprehensive plan that will resolve all of Greece s fiscal and structural problems.

Moreover, all of Greece s structural problems  a thin tax base, large numbers of government employees who receive bonus payments, and generous pension benefits  cannot be sustained within the eurozone.

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While structural problems have weakened competitiveness and GDP growth in particular countries, they did not bring about the crisis, and addressing them will not resolve it.

Structural reforms, to root out corruption and crony capitalism, were doubtless overdue.

Structural barriers do not represent the only problems of access to treatment in the health care system.

Fiscal discipline remains essential, as are deep structural reforms.

What is needed is not structural reform within Greece and Spain so much as structural reform of the eurozone s design and a fundamental rethinking of the policy frameworks that have resulted in the monetary union s spectacularly bad performance.

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