Popular Measures Impacting Reforms
Economic reform typically denotes to deregulation with an objective to enhance economic development and eliminate poverty.
The main obstacle to executing required structural reforms is the increase in popular measures across the developed economies. Several governments in Europe and the US have resorted to implementing popular measures to gain a political mileage.
According to the Spanish Economy Minister Luis de Guindos, "These are not easy times for governments globally all over the world. The biggest challenge and the biggest enemy of structural reform are populism and populism is pervasive now. Even in the (United) States, I have realized you have a little bit of populism now."
Banks in Europe, which were impacted by a huge amount of real estate loans had to seek global assistance to bail them out.
Lenders urged the European nations to initiate stringent reforms of the banks and labour markets.
As per the IMF Deputy Managing Director, Min Zhu, "We observe in Europe that people more and more realize that structural reform is a must."
According to Diana Farrell, CEO of the JPMorgan Chase Institute, “Political populism corroded the ability of government and regulators to have an ongoing dialogue with business and industry. If you create a populist environment… You are going to get regulations that are actually more crippling to the economy."
Political populism is expected to continue in the near future. A slowdown in the global economic activity and negligible productivity development imply that real earnings and expenditure are estimated to be below normal.
Therefore, when the real economic scenario is not in line with expectations, global political leaders would want to take advantage of deteriorating living standards and enhancing economic uncertainty.
Several aspects are strengthening populism and dissatisfaction. Globalization, digitalization and robotization have destabilized job security.
Numerous employment opportunities are based on temporary contracts, part-time jobs and self-employment without any social security.
A new segment of uncertain workers known as “Uber” class has become a certainty.
The requirement for education, technical and social expertise has moved upwards significantly and therefore has enhanced the number of individuals entering the labour market. Unions have lost their bargaining power, thereby restricting wage negotiations.
At a time when developed nations must execute comprehensive reforms, political compulsions are forcing the governments to resort to populism.
This would undermine the economic stability in the long run. Global political stakeholders must reach a consensus and work together to avoid another global financial meltdown.
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