ETHIOPIA SHOULD SLOWLY LIBERALISE EXCHANGE RATE REGIME - C.BANK GOVERNOR
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More sensitive is the obligation to liberalise Vietnam's labour laws.
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Malaysia will not immediately have to liberalise its state-owned enterprises.
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He is trying to liberalise labour laws modelled on those of Benito Mussolini.
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Details vary, but EPAs typically liberalise about 80% of imports over 20 years.
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He wants the police to kill more "criminals", and to liberalise gun ownership.
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Labour supports the plan to liberalise the law, criticising only the government's sluggishness.
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Unfortunately, that evolution will make any new effort to liberalise trade devilishly hard.
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Brazil opened partially in the early 1990s but later attempts to liberalise fizzled.
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Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed launched a push to liberalise the country's economy last year.
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The government's refusal to liberalise mobile-telephone services and banks is patently self-harming.
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The decision in the late 1980s to liberalise rents breathed life back into the market.
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Albania aims to liberalise its power sector and open it up to competition by 2025.
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Dilma Rousseff, the PT president, began to liberalise trade after her re-election in 2014.
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Europe strives to liberalise public procurement; American states can ban out-of-state providers entirely.
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Plans to liberalise labour laws, for example by deregulating working hours, are not a vote-winner.
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The pact will eliminate tariffs on 90% of products, liberalise services and reduce non-tariff barriers.
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Some argue that the Zika crisis should prompt countries to liberalise policies that severely restrict abortion.
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Its initial opposition to an EU directive to liberalise postal services almost led to a bust-up.
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She should do more to liberalise the economy and remove obstacles to the creation of new businesses.
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China wants eventually to liberalise its capital account as a stepping stone to a modern financial system.
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The Securities Commission Malaysia (SC) said on Monday it would liberalise rules by the first quarter of 2018.
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Will he liberalise the visa rules so that there is an open-door policy for migrants with degrees?
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The president's friends say that such complaints come from entrenched elites who oppose his plans to liberalise the economy.
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The last big agreement to liberalise internal trade came in 1994, when the North American Free-Trade Agreement took effect.
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Another set of multilateral negotiations is under way to liberalise trade in Asia: the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership, or RCEP.
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Instead, advanced economies must invest in higher education, liberalise labour markets and encourage a shift toward equity financing, he reckons.
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If Mr Díaz-Canel wants to preside over progress rather than stagnation and decline, he will have to liberalise further.
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That would help Mr Macri proceed with plans to cut the budget deficit, liberalise labour laws and clean up the courts.
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However, the government has taken steps to liberalise rules on the exchange and is eager to boost the kingdom's financial sector.
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The telecoms industry is considered a big prize in a push by Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed to liberalise the Ethiopian economy.
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But with so many members reluctant to liberalise, including smaller countries fearful of opening up to China, that has been impossible.
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But for sustained recovery, structural reforms will be needed to liberalise the economy, something Rouhani could not deliver in his first term.
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On labour reforms, Greece will not be forced to liberalise mass layoffs further, as initially demanded by the IMF, two officials said.
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Plenty of Argentines and some outsiders may conclude that Mr Macri's agenda to liberalise the economy, and the IMF's support, were misplaced.
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It could also help liberalise the gas market in southeastern Europe, for example by allowing reverse flows and giving rivals access to pipelines.
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He can talk of the need to liberalise France's economy, but without the radical tone of Mr Fillon, who risks scaring government employees.
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So the news that the EPRDF would in fact liberalise swathes of the economy to boost growth and exports came as another shock.
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In Tbilisi, activists have threatened to return to the streets if officials do not liberalise drug policy and allow the clubs to reopen.
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In instances where African governments have taken steps to liberalise their markets, as Europe and America did from the late 1970s, fares plunge.
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Across Africa, there are moves to liberalise abortion law: Malawi is set to debate a bill this year; Senegal may follow suit thereafter.
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The telecoms sector is considered the big prize in a push to liberalise Ethiopia's economy launched last year by Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed.
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To liberalise in a fast-paced world, "a full-blown, gold-plated free-trade agreement may not be the only solution," Dr Fox said.
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Any new law to liberalise abortion will be a matter for parliament; only repeal of the ban will be on the ballot in May.
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Yet economic ills such as weak real incomes, inequality and immobile workers may be partly due to a failure to liberalise product markets further.
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Plenty of people think that Mr Abe should redouble his efforts to liberalise the economy, including by introducing sweeping reforms to the labour market.
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The government has promised to liberalise Africa's second most populous nation, which has been one of the continent's fastest growing economies for a decade.
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Trade unions called Brazil's first general strike in 21 years to protest against the government's plans to reduce spending on pensions and liberalise labour laws.
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But the German assemblies (focused in particular on moves to liberalise education about sex and gender) have been smaller, and they have drawn counter-demonstrations.
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The shift from lender to borrower will create a knock-on effect, gradually forcing it to attract more foreign capital and liberalise its financial system.
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The Ugandan government is protecting its infant airline and has not signed up to the Single African Air Transport Market, which would liberalise regional aviation.
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Abiy has promised to liberalise the telecoms and banking sectors but this year he is likely to be occupied with elections scheduled for Aug. 29.
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It might have been an opportunity to liberalise, but, says Mr Nieves, Mr Trump has given conservatives "a perfect instrument to manage the speed of change".
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Accession would force the region's corrupt elites to allow media freedom, strengthen the rule of law and liberalise their economies, thus diluting their powers of patronage.
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He is even trying to liberalise Ethiopia's debt-burdened, state-directed economy, where a phone connection is harder to get than in anarchic Somalia next door.
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Investors are looking for measures to boost the savings rate, liberalise the labour market, and develop a higher-value manufacturing sector to reduce reliance on imports.
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Ending a state monopoly of the East African nation's telecoms industry is considered the big prize in Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed's push to liberalise the economy.
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The lack of such an unemployment benefit scheme made the Greek government reluctant to liberalise labour laws to allow for mass lay-offs, the IMF said.
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Over the longer run, though, the decision to liberalise foreign access should help to accelerate the development of China's overall domestic bond market - the world's third largest.
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The move comes as the world's biggest electricity consumer strives to liberalise its power sector by bringing capital from diversified investors and expanding its electricity market trading.
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The application is a part of the Monetary Authority of Singapore's decision to issue five banking licences as it tries to liberalise the city-state's banking sector.
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Whereas Ms Breed has pledged to liberalise the city's housing regulations to rein in the city's runaway rents, Ms Kim and Mr Leno have taken a cooler approach.
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For a start, Mr Macron was elected on a promise to liberalise the economy and harmonise France's myriad pension regimes so that the same rules apply to all.
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The two main opposition parties, which both want to liberalise the economy and privatise the land, were eventually allowed to keep 161 seats in the 547-strong parliament.
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Aided by his finance minister, Manmohan Singh, he devised a radical plan to devalue the rupee, liberalise trade policies and lower the barriers to foreign capital and competition.
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Last month, a Viettel official said the company was also eyeing opportunities in Ethiopia after the government there announced its intention to liberalise key economic sectors including telecommunications.
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JAKARTA, May 24 (Reuters) - Indonesia has eased foreign ownership rules in the retail sector and port services as part of efforts to liberalise its economy, Southeast Asia's largest.
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China also pledged to do more to liberalise its financial services sector, tighten up its intellectual property rules and be more transparent with its interventions in currency markets.
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BEIJING, Jan 8 (Reuters) - China's central bank said it would further liberalise interest rates, according to a statement posted on the People's Bank of China website on Friday.
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For a long time, America and Australia were notably tougher than Europeans, who still believed that China would open up and liberalise as it became integrated with the West.
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Facebook dominates the social media landscape in Myanmar, where millions of people have come online for the first time since reforms to liberalise the telecoms sector began in 2013.
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When Mr Bolsonaro took office in January investors thought he might let Mr Guedes, a free marketeer, reform the unaffordable pensions system, liberalise the economy and restore robust growth.
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The Trump administration is reportedly demanding that China lower its tariffs on imported American cars, liberalise its rules governing financial services and, perhaps, cut subsidies for state-owned enterprises.
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Macron on the other hand was booed when he met with trade union members at a glassworks in Albi as a result of his plans to liberalise labor laws.
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Stories with Haknazarov's byline have been appearing for about 14 years, long before President Mirziyoyev came to power in 2016 promising to liberalise the tightly-controlled former Soviet republic.
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It was not just Westerners who imagined that an authoritarian China might liberalise internally and become a "responsible stakeholder", in the phrase an American diplomat, Robert Zoellick, used in 2005.
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"It is not unexpected ... this is very much consistent with Japan's efforts to liberalise the gas market," said Neil Beveridge, oil and gas analyst at AB Bernstein in Hong Kong.
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But domestic technology companies needed the government to liberalise immigration policy if the firms were to compete against Silicon Valley and help turn innovation into a driver of growth, he said.
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The resort began to lure high-rolling holidaymakers and the artists who helped empty their wallets in the 1930s, when Nevada became the first state to legalise gambling and liberalise divorce laws.
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Ireland's referendum on whether to liberalise its abortion laws will give voters the first opportunity in 35 years to repeal a constitutional amendment that has long divided the once deeply Catholic nation.
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The measures marked the first big u-turn for a president elected 18 months earlier on a platform to break with traditional French politics and liberalise the heavily-regulated euro zone economy.
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ST PETERSBURG, Russia, June 17 (Reuters) - Russia continues to liberalise business climate and its security services should bear personal responsibility for unjustified actions against businesses, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Friday.
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MINSK, Jan 24 (Reuters) - Belarus plans to scrap restrictions on people opening accounts with foreign banks, as part of a cautious drive to liberalise its economy and pull itself out of recession.
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It sets out new ones for trade in digital products like music and e-books; protects the intellectual property of drugs firms, film studios and others; and includes commitments to liberalise financial services.
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The revisions, and the extent to which they fulfil Mr Li's grand pledge, are an important indicator of how serious the government is about pursuing other initiatives to liberalise rules on foreign investment.
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With the ouster of Davutoglu, investors are worried about whether the government will deliver on promises of long-overdue reforms to liberalise the labour market, encourage savings and bring in more private investment.
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The role of AfCFTA is to liberalise trade among those member states that are not currently in the same REC, said Trudi Hartzenberg, director at Tralac, a South Africa-based trade law organisation.
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Governments everywhere find it hard to liberalise their approach to drugs, and not just because of the UN convention: any politician who advocates more liberal drugs laws risks being caricatured as favouring drug-taking.
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Other economists have argued the main reason Abe's policies have disappointed after more than three years in office are a lack of bold steps to liberalise the labour market and reverse a population decline.
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The change will make it easier for Xi Jinping to cling to power indefinitely, raising concerns in Western capitals that China will renege on promises to liberalise markets and allow limited forms of democracy.
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Elected in February, the 290-seat assembly replaces one dominated by hardliners suspicious of detente with the West and who curbed pragmatist President Hassan Rouhani's plans to liberalise the economy and raise lacklustre productivity.
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Multinational firms are eyeing a slice of the telecom provider after Ethiopia's parliament passed a law last month to liberalise the telecommunications sector, opening up one of Africa's last remaining state-controlled telecoms markets.
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It is much easier to liberalise trade in goods than in jealously protected services markets, as the EU has learned during its painful attempts to negotiate "next-generation" trade deals with Canada and America.
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"Much of the needed structural transformation of the Greek economy still lies ahead," the IMF said, urging Athens to liberalise product markets and closed professions further and push through reforms to become more competitive.
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Valls now has to disentangle himself from Hollande's deeply unpopular presidency, during which the premier spearheaded reforms to liberalise the labour market and talked tough on law and order - causing deep rifts within party ranks.
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The chief executives of major banks are also involved in efforts to liberalise the economy by, among other things, getting big firms to agree to hire hundreds of thousands of youngsters on one-year internships.
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SHANGHAI, Oct 27 (Reuters) - China will further liberalise its capital markets and is studying the application of blockchain and artificial intelligence in cross-border financing and settlement, a senior foreign exchange regulator said on Sunday.
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China and Hong Kong launched the "Bond Connect" scheme last year to link China's $9 trillion bond market with overseas investors, the latest step in Beijing's efforts to liberalise and strengthen the country's capital markets.
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RABAT, April 20 (Reuters) - The Moroccan central bank's initial stage in a programme to liberalise the dirham currency will start in the second half of the year, the bank said in a statement on Wednesday.
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LONDON, May 27 (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Theresa May faced demands from ministers and lawmakers in her Conservative party to reform Northern Ireland's highly restrictive abortion rules after neighbouring Ireland's vote to liberalise its laws.
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Since being elected in December, Mirziyoyev has moved to gradually liberalise the country's sum currency, allowing some companies and banks to trade it at a market rate and scrapping mandatory foreign currency sales last month.
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President Emmanuel Macron, elected last May on a promise to shake up France's creaking economy and spur jobs growth, is locked in a battle with the trade unions over his plans to liberalise labour regulations.
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Saeed Leylaz, a pro-reformist analyst and economist, is encouraged enough by the election results to believe Rouhani and parliament can now start working to liberalise the economy, curb corruption, entice investment and boost productivity.
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His moves to liberalise the economy by opening up lucrative state-owned assets to foreign investment have been cheered by his people as well as outside investors keen to enter one of Africa's last untapped markets.
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When China joined the World Trade Organisation in 21 reformers at home and friends abroad dreamed that it would liberalise its economy and, perhaps, its politics too, smoothing its integration into an American-led world order.
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Aleksander Berentsen, a University of Basel professor of economic theory, said Morocco's macro-economic stability meant it was a good moment to liberalise the dirham and the central bank was in a position to adjust to changes.
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Ethiopia's telecoms industry is considered the big prize in a push to liberalise the country's economy launched last year by Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed because of its huge protected market serving a population of around 100 million.
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Money managers who attended Tuesday's roadshow said they were alarmed at the lack of any steer on what happens next in Nigeria's foreign exchange market, two weeks after the central bank announced plans to liberalise the currency.
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In countries where politics long thwarted efforts to rein in inflation, put budgets on a sustainable course or liberalise the economy, EU membership altered the political dynamic: tough decisions could be blamed on the hard taskmasters in Brussels.
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Morocco has been working for years with a technical mission from the IMF to liberalise its currency, with both saying the move will be gradual and a total float will take years, depending on how the market reacts.
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Omelyan had told Reuters in an interview in March that he expected legal cases to open against him because he is helping drive reforms, which aim to liberalise the ex-Soviet republic's economy, purge corruption and improve governance.
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The launch of trading on the Chongqing exchange, China's second physical gas exchange platform after the Shanghai Petroleum and Gas Exchange, is another step in the country's push to liberalise its natural gas markets and shore up supplies.
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It&aposs very easy to say we are going to give nukes, we&aposre going to liberalise our country but North Korea does not negotiate in good faith, both with the southern citizens and with the international community.
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The error was not in the text of the story) JAKARTA, May 24 (Reuters) - Indonesia has eased foreign ownership rules in the retail sector and port services as part of efforts to liberalise its economy, Southeast Asia's largest.
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BELFAST, May 26 (Reuters) - Abortion rights activists in Northern Ireland called on the British government to end what one group described as the province's "Victorian-era abortion ban" after neighbouring Ireland voted by a landslide to liberalise its laws.
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Economists have been approaching the issue along the lines of: liberalisation should generate gains large enough to make everyone better off, so all we need to do is liberalise and then redistribute some of the gains to the losers.
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The left-led government had promised to take measures to liberalise its energy market, cut pension spending, speed up privatisations and boost banking governance in exchange for the fresh funds, which will be used to pay off state arrears.
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Morocco has been working for years with a technical mission from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to liberalise its currency, with both saying the move would be gradual and a total float would take years depending on how the market reacts.
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The jobs and prosperity generated by Anaklia will, Georgian authorities hope, increase the pressure on Abkhaz and Russian authorities to liberalise travel—last month they sealed the "border" for 26 days—and perhaps eventually move towards talks on power sharing.
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The move to liberalise sectors of the economy which have always been off limits to foreign investors came as a surprise after the new premier had signalled to local businessmen that the government would remain involved in infrastructure, banking and telecoms.
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The outcome was possible because two years ago, President Emmanuel Macron pushed through measures to liberalise France's highly regulated labour market and reduce the unemployment rate which, at 20.8958% in August, is more than double that in Britain or Germany.
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The decree, which was rejected the first time it was given to legislators in March, aims to liberalise hiring in a sector strictly controlled by the unions and comes after months of fines by the EU for not adhering to European regulation.
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"We do not expect to see any major changes to key areas of policy, including economic – Prince Mohammed bin Salman has already been driving the economic agenda and the push to transform and liberalise the economy," said Monica Malik, chief economist at Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank.
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Some in the British government would settle for a limited pact to liberalise economic sectors where British and American views align, such as financial and professional services, or e-commerce, leaving to one side controversial talks about food safety or American investment in the British health system.
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The central bank said based on feedback from stakeholders and with a view to further liberalise the ECB framework it has been decided to relax the end-use restrictions and allow the use of funds for working capital requirements, general corporate purposes and repayment of rupee loans.
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"The main theme of Vision 2030 is to diversify, liberalise and reform the Saudi economy, and the reliance on oil income will gradually fall," said Shakeel Sarwar, head of asset management at Bahrain's Securities and Investment Co. Trading volume climbed to its highest level since August 2015.
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The new ministry will be responsible for major ongoing tasks including a push to liberalise China's electricity market, opening energy infrastructure such as gas pipelines and oil storage to private and foreign players, boosting renewable energy use and weaning the country off coal, its favourite fuel.
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Under pressure to liberalise its gas and power markets on the road to EU membership, Serbia in 2014 adopted a plan to separate the transport and supply arms of the state-owned utility by the end of June, turning it into a holding company incorporating the two units.
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