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It analyzes and compares the need for reform in OECD member countries, as well as their ability to respond to current social and political challenges.

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Although the Bill introduced to give effect to the recommendations did not proceed, it is perhaps only a matter of time before the need for reform in this area is accepted.

As the mother of two school - aged children, April understands the need for reform in school systems across the country and looks forward to contributing to this change through her work at CRSS.

His statistical gymnastics are used most often in the service of defending current school practices against most reform proposals, usually by denying the need for reform in the first place.

Mr. Heastie said that «need for reform in Albany did not begin in the last few weeks.

«There is an overwhelming need for reform in juvenile justice system, starting with the replacement of Commissioner Gladys Carrion, whose misguided policies and divisive management has put clients and staff at greater risk.

Sister Agnes does an excellent job of setting the scene: an era of social change, an awareness of a need for reform in the Church but those attempting it mostly drifting off into schism or heresy.

The first phase of the Reformation focused on issues relating to personal salvation and the need for reform in the life of the church.

The Waldensian group was one of several springing up about that time as an intuitive answer to the specific needs for reform in the church.

«I knew, having sued the agency for 30 years, that there was a need for reforms in many areas of the agency,» remarked Banks, who previously ran the Legal Aid Society.

TES Talks to... Paul Reville (Times Education Supplement) Paul Reville discusses his work as founder of Harvard's Education Redesign Lab, and then need for reforms in the current, broken education system to make education more equitable in our country.

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The Panel's final, overarching recommendation was that Canada needed a «Canadian Competition Council» to continually review the state of competition in Canada and make recommendations to government for further reform.

Earlier this year, he stressed the need for tax reform, particularly in allowing companies to bring back profits stored overseas at lower rates.

He has been outspoken on a number of issues lately, particularly regarding the gridlock in Congress and the need for less regulation and tax reform.

Tax reform has been a major focus for a GOP in need of a legislative win since their failure to repeal Obamacare.

And in the intervening years, the need for immigration reform has only gotten more extreme.

Prior to the elections, business leaders thought immigration reform would only happen in a piecemeal fashion, so they limited their efforts to their own needs, which is for highly skilled workers.

In an emailed response to questions for this article, Lindsey Geisler, a spokesperson for the NNSA, said that in 2011, after the contract had been awarded, NNSA recognized the need to institute project management reformIn an emailed response to questions for this article, Lindsey Geisler, a spokesperson for the NNSA, said that in 2011, after the contract had been awarded, NNSA recognized the need to institute project management reformin 2011, after the contract had been awarded, NNSA recognized the need to institute project management reforms.

Candidate Hillary now talks up the need for criminal justice reform to undo the 1994 crime bill her husband championed; decries the wages on American workers of NAFTA and subsequent free - trade deals he ushered in; and calls for cracking down on a financial sector he helped deregulate.

That raises doubts about a key argument for proponents of federal immigration reform: that companies need looser rules to import overseas workers because there aren't enough job candidates in the United States who can fill specialized skills, namely in science, technology and engineering.

In an op - ed for The New York Times, Marc Mauer, executive director of the Sentencing Project, and David Cole, a professor of law and public policy at Georgetown University, write that many liberals and conservatives alike acknowledge the US criminal justice system needs reform.

«While this would be politically difficult on the island, it's possible that a new administration in Puerto Rico in 2017 could ask Washington to create such an entity, arguing for example, that it had inherited a fiscal mess and needed help to push through messy reforms,» Boles wrote in a note last week.

In addition, the conservative Koch - backed group Americans for Prosperity launched a $ 500,000 ad campaign touting the new tax law because, according to Americans for Prosperity Foundation Senior Director Michael Fields, «all Americans need to know how tax reform is leading to higher pay and lower taxes.»

With deadlock in the Senate it will be harder to pass key legislation needed for economic reforms.

The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform's hearing featured a string of critics who rebuked Bresch for raising the price of a product with life - or - death implications, especially one that needs to be replaced almost every year and in a therapeutic space where Mylan has more than 90 % market share.

Beyond these concerns, of course, we still need to fix problems that have been with us for some time during the crisis: unacceptably high unemployment, especially among young people; high levels of debt in many countries; and the need to complete the financial reform agenda.

The Spanish government has been noteworthy in its pursuit of well - directed actions to address Spain's debt and banking - system problems, and the Spanish public has demonstrated an understanding of the need for austerity and reform measures.

It's highly unlikely that 2014 will be nearly as big a year for stocks, but it could be a good year for job growth if Congress will take action — invest more in badly - needed transportation and other infrastructure projects, approve immigration reform and tackle tax and entitlement reform.

Europe needs a stronger banking union, including a cross-Continental guarantor of deposits; structural reforms to improve growth prospects; more monetary easing; and better plans for budget - cutting in the countries struggling to convince global investors of their financial stability, the fund said.

What are the challenges and opportunities for CEOs looking to do business in these zones and what reforms are needed to increase the flow of investment?

I would argue that this is exactly what President Xi seems to be doing, and why even before he was formally in power he sought to consolidate power, undermine and frighten potential opposition, strengthen his relationship with the military, and unify the country's policymakers behind the need for reforms.

When growth is most needed, when a country is suffering from excessively high levels of debt, it is hard to find many cases in which the aggressive implementation of reforms led to growth rates fast enough for the debtor to grow its way out of debt.

I will argue that most economists have an incoherent understanding of China's rebalancing needs, and for this reason many if not most of the reform proposals of the past few years, about which economists widely agree and even celebrate, are in many if not most cases largely irrelevant.

The three main areas where my direct advice went unheeded were the following: (1) the need for large - scale financial assistance [29] for Russia, which I deemed (and still deem) to have been essential to molding a political consensus around reforms, and to bolstering the financial situation enough to achieve a modicum of success in the fight against hyperinflation; (2) the need for strong monetary and fiscal policy to achieve a rapid end to inflation [30]; and (3) the urgency of establishing a social safety net [31], especially in health care and pensions, to ensure an adequate social and political base for societal transformation and democratization.

Retailers also need a workable program for obtaining visas for guest workers, reform of the H1B visa system for high - tech workers, and a mechanism to provide earned legalization for undocumented workers already in the country.

But De Gregorio acknowledges the challenge they present going forward and fears that, particularly at a time when growth in the region is slowing and external circumstances are changing, a flair for populism and the power of vested interests might undermine the process of continued economic reforms needed to foster, among other things, shared prosperity and social inclusion.

In no particular order these included: a dysfunctional bankruptcy framework; an immature domestic capital market; withholding taxes on foreign capital; corruption (particularly at the state level — the Modi government has made progress at the federal level); policy and renegotiation risks (a number of legacy and high profile tax eases are yet to be resolved); land acquisition costs (and legal risks); and, the need for tax reforms.

But if the price of Greece staying in the eurozone is a reversal of much needed reforms, it will still count as a loss for Europe.

If the Finance Minister is really serious about an economic growth strategy, then he will have to address the need for comprehensive tax reform in his 2018 budget.

Of the many shortcomings of the pre-Fed currency and banking system, none struck sincere reform proponents of all kinds as being in more dire need of correction than the tendency of the nation's bank reserves to flow into the coffers of a handful of New York banks during seasons apart from the harvest, combined with the annual (and occasionally mad) harvest - time scramble for those same reserves.

The University of Alberta - based Parkland Institute released a new report this morning, Ending Pay to Play: The Need for Political Finance Reform in Alberta: «Given the consensus that exists between the government and official opposition to ban corporate and union donations, it should act immediately to do so.

The current pickup in inflation in the eurozone seems likely to be temporary, and while the region's growth rate has improved, there is little sign of the political appetite for the structural reforms needed.

At a time when the political and financial elite gathered at Davos frets about the failures of capitalism and the need for its reform, Professors Yvan Allaire and Mihaela Firsirotu, in a new book titled «A Capitalism of Owners ``, propose an action plan to change fundamentally the way capitalism has come to work.

Targeted benefit enhancements for Social Security recipients who need them most certainly should be considered in the context of a reform plan, and indeed they have been included in a number of bipartisan plans put forward in recent years.

European policymakers realize that reforms are needed to improve access to credit in the eurozone, particularly for small - and medium - sized enterprises.

We remain cautious and selective in Japan, where our main concern is that reform could stop shy of the real structural changes needed for corporate Japan to gain competitiveness, improve profitability, and overcome the country's daunting debt and demographic challenges.

As one private equity investor points out, protecting under - performing sectors might have been wise in deflationary times (to keep unemployment from ballooning) though as reflation returns the need for productivity to restrain costs could present an argument for reform in the worst - performing sectors.

Populorum Progressio, the pope notes, «repeatedly underlines the urgent need for reform, and in the face of great problems of injustice in the development of peoples, it calls for courageous action to be taken without delay.»

Washington (CNN)- A leader of an evangelical Christian organization pushing for immigration reform said that while the group needs to read the whole bill filed Wednesday in the U.S. Senate before fully endorsing it, the legislation doesn't constitute amnesty «in any dictionary in the English language.»