The Germans insist that growth will come from tighter budgets and reformed labour laws.
Not in most European countries: strong labour laws and strongish unions make that awkward.
The unions are also protesting against price rise, inflation and alleged violation of labour laws.
One major test of the government's commitment to growth is the country's labour laws.
Few politicians dare touch rigid labour laws or giveaways, such as free electricity to farmers.
New labour laws and proposed racial quotas have made most firms cautious about hiring.
In January, China imposed one of the most far-reaching labour laws in the world.
Nobody now expects his government to tackle one big, unreformed obstacle to business: employment-destroying labour laws.
Of course scarce land, red tape, poor education and infrastructure, and onerous labour laws partly offset this.
To preserve its new economic well being, Sweden should slash taxes and loosen its rigid labour laws.
Third is a change in India's labour laws, which act as a serious obstacle to labour-intensive manufacturing.
More importantly, she may also tweak rigid labour laws, though only cautiously, to help students get part-time jobs.
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It is true that the pension entitlements, labour laws and taxes that handicap Brazil's economy have been left untouched.
The structural reforms, like loosening labour laws, will take years to have impact.
British labour laws are, in any case, hardly onerous compared to continental ones.
That many of the new jobs are formal (ie, legally registered) is despite, rather than because of, the labour laws.
And how will they get over the obstacles to making it work, such as trade unions and rigid labour laws?
South African labour laws make it hard to fire workers, which deters companies from hiring them in the first place.
One reason is Mexico's labour laws, and in particular the closed shop, whereby only one union is recognised in each company.
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We do not need changes in labour laws and policy to elicit sacrifice from organised labour, as some economists have suggested.
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Tough labour laws that have reduced working hours and banned outsourcing have strengthened workers' rights but also caused headaches for entrepreneurs.
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Among the blocked measures are urgent proposals to ease Mexico's sclerotic labour laws and allow private investment in the energy sector.
But papa also keeps the household afloat: his children have a keen interest in labour laws that keep their parent unsackable.
To turn an honest centavo, businesses must cope with awful roads, high energy costs, archaic labour laws and a Byzantine bureaucracy.
However, potential investors would probably have preferred that he stay at home and reform Indonesia's dysfunctional courts and restrictive labour laws.
Better still would be an effort to reform the tax system and relax labour laws that still hold back the economy.
It calls on the government to do more to make sure the labour laws are being respected, following previous similar warnings.
And Congress has overturned a government effort to make the country's labour laws more flexible, even though exporters are starting to struggle.
But sustained rapid growth would require a slew of big second-round reforms, to include things like land acquisition, labour laws and tax.
However, this is not guaranteed, because of South Africa's over-restrictive labour laws.
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