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The Fiscal Crisis as an opportunity for structural Reforms

Politicians, newspapers and commentators have a natural tendency to focus on the current problems . The word “crisis” is probably the most used word in the ongoing economic policy debate . While handling the current crisis is certainly a priority, a longer-term view is ultimately more important for the world economy . After all, a crisis in which a country’s economy falls by 10 percent of GDP—a very large crisis, indeed—is half as important as a “lost decade” of growth, where an economy grows at 2 percent per year less than it could . Japan is one example of this . At the end of the 1980s, Japan was an envied example of an economy with fast growth, a potential challenge to the economic status quo and the dominance of the Western developed economies, and the economic powerhouse . Twenty years of the anemic growth has now made Japan a lackluster heavyweight slugging along .