America is allowing imf and world bank teams to visit the country in part to help the government modernise its sclerotic financial system . The eu has abolished visa restrictions on leading government members and is expected to announce further relaxations in april .
It is the object of endless lectures about taxes and wages that are too high , welfare and pension benefits that are too generous , east german states that have become subsidy junkies and a labour market that is irredeemably sclerotic .
Russia 's elite believe that by spending billions on glossy projects like an international skiing center for the 2014 sochi olympics or on a new " innovation city " at skolkovo near moscow makes up for lack of progress on the rest of the sclerotic economy .
The continent 's legions of jobless youth are the product of a sclerotic labor market , rigged to benefit older union members at the expense of recent graduates .
The next step is harder : reform of italy 's sclerotic two-tier labour market .
更加困难的是下一步:改革意大利僵化的双轨制劳动力市场。
The rescue packages are accordingly trying to shake up the sclerotic economies of greece and portugal through sweeping changes to liberalise markets controlled by producer interests .