That means price liberalization, that means trade liberalization, that means including women within the economy.
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Ruthless economic liberalization has left many people materially insecure; relentless cultural liberalization has left them unmoored.
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What's interesting for me, as someone who grew up in India and who's a fan of the market and liberalization, is to recognize that rampant marketization and liberalization also has some drawbacks.
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Brexit minister Stephen Barclay called the measures a "modest liberalization".
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The previous government, and Mr. Modi's, had promised further liberalization.
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Political demand for economic liberalization has to come from somewhere.
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They deserve greater priority over trade liberalization and regulatory harmonization.
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Middle classes are not a priori engines of political liberalization.
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The liberalization of casino gambling benefits some companies more than others.
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China's gradual market liberalization may be good news for Canadian pensioners.
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Moreover, Congress has moved increasingly toward marijuana liberalization in recent years.
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Such visa liberalization looks unlikely to be granted any time soon.
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Treaties like the TPP are about far more than market liberalization.
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But liberalization, along with urbanization, also created unforeseen types of inequality.
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Two of China's highest-profile financial liberalization projects involve Hong Kong.
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Liberalization alone is not the only factor contributing to poverty reduction.
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Liberalization has happened both in the culture and in the economy.
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The liberalization may also mean a greater fluctuation in EU sugar prices.
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Japan's reforms mark the biggest liberalization since Germany's over a decade ago.
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Some hope a stronger Xi will put China back on liberalization path.
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The apparent delay left traders worried about the progress of the liberalization.
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Europe and economic liberalization in countries like China and India created a
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Of course, trade liberalization is not always a boon for poorer countries.
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This could of course show commitment to a long-promised liberalization process.
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But when the Solidarity movement began in the 1970s she supported liberalization.
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This exposes the Trump administration's outmoded views on globalization and trade liberalization.
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The liberalization of immigration law is an obsession of the alt-right.
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He added that the auto trade liberalization with Argentina could be gradual.
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The EU has been wasting our time on the visa liberalization issue.
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It stopped doing so in 1988, during an era of political liberalization.
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Europe has two options: Grant Turkey visa liberalization and receive an unknown amount of Turkish migrants to EU countries, or continue to stall until Turkey realizes it will not receive visa liberalization and reopens the Aegean route to Greece.
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Supporters of trade liberalization should definitely be concerned by the tone of the inauguration speech, but remember there will be a team of people, with wide ranging experience and a lot of past support for trade liberalization, making policy.
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He helped write Charter 08, a manifesto calling for political and economic liberalization.
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Weak global demand and slowing appetites for trade liberalization are the key factors.
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And, meanwhile, banks are spending increasing amounts of money lobbying for greater liberalization.
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LB: Well, capital liberalization, I think it's going to happen sooner or later.
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It promotes liberalization in overseas markets, which keeps them open to U.S. exports.
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Some hope a stronger Xi will put China back on the liberalization path.
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Lopez Obrador, widely known as AMLO, halted a liberalization of Mexico's energy market.
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At the same time, the country embarked on a path of economic liberalization.
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China has grown because of its initial liberalization and despite government economic directives.
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"The government emphatically took land acquisition liberalization off the table last year, and intense union opposition always depressed the outlook for major labor law liberalization at the central level," Sasha Riser-Kositsky, an analyst at Eurasia Group told CNBC by email.
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A4AI's primary recommendation is for greater liberalization of markets and measures to increase competitiveness.
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Another key constraint to economic diversification and liberalization was the political system, experts said.
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Some of them, like the liberalization of the energy market, or privatization, are difficult.
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But the government has given no indication that it might allow any political liberalization.
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Turkey has repeatedly said that without visa liberalization, there would be no migrant deal.
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ZB: What would happen if the US started reversing its historical pro-liberalization stance?
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Ankara has repeatedly said that without visa liberalization, there will be no migrant deal.
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They complained that European integration was, especially then, largely a process of economic liberalization.
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But ignoring the health effects of trade liberalization will come at our own peril.
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That is going to require political reform — significant and sustained political reform and liberalization.
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In recent years, the WTO's liberalization agenda has stalled in a number of areas.
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Why is Poland, the poster child for economic liberalization, going through its own retrenchment?
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Further, the U.S. will demand some liberalization of Canada's tightly controlled dairy management system.
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We should promote trade and investment liberalization and facilitation, support the multilateral trading system.
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Foreign businesses have long complained that liberalization has been too narrow and implementation spotty.
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Expanding commercial relations are reinforcing the economic liberalization that began in Cuba in 2011.
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The second is that protectionists almost always exaggerate the adverse effects of trade liberalization.
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Born in the '90s, we've grown up enjoying the fruits of India's economic liberalization.
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Further, rates of problematic cannabis use have fallen sharply in the era of liberalization.
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Its trend, on display in 1989, of allowing economic but not political liberalization continues.
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After Bashar succeeded his father as president in 2000, there were hopes of liberalization.
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In 2008, he helped write a petition calling for widespread political liberalization in China.
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At first, Taiwan's economic policy toward China oscillated between extreme restriction and extreme liberalization.
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There's a common theme to all of this: 2017 brought no new trade liberalization.
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China has become the world's second-largest economy through economic liberalization without democratic reform.
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"It is up to Turkey if there is or there isn't visa liberalization," Gabriel said.
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By rallying around Khashoggi, they can hold MBS to his social and political liberalization promises.
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In the hemisphere, the Pacific Alliance is taking over as the leader in trade liberalization.
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Black churches are not isolated from it, and they too are purveyors of neo-liberalization.
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There are enormous side effects of trade liberalization, which cause true social and economic disruption.
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In the 2013 campaign, Rouhani talked up liberalization and won by the slimmest of margins.
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Under Salman's predecessor King Abdullah there was also a slow though uneven process of liberalization.
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He also called for progress on trade liberalization, including talks on the Trans-Pacific Partnership.
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Moreover, some in the party do see a need to accelerate and deepen economic liberalization.
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Look at Mexico, which did a radical trade liberalization in 1985-88, then joined NAFTA.
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Well, I believe in liberalization and free trade, so it does fit my political prejudices.
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Trade liberalization in the financial services sector will still help economic growth, the government said.
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His father, Xi Zhongxun, was an early supporter of China's economic liberalization under Deng Xiaoping.
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The global spread of middle-class society and culture has not resulted in political liberalization.
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The liberalization of Mexico's energy sector has stalled since Lopez Obrador took office in December.
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In contrast, major U.S. trading partners have been pushing ahead with their own trade liberalization.
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If such a deal can't be struck, then policymakers should approach further liberalization with caution.
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Trade liberalization could also have significant benefits for American trading partners such as Vietnam. Sen.
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Brussels has said that Turkey fully meets only 19 out of 72 criteria for visa liberalization.
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Once Abiy's liberalization was launched, the conflicts erupted like a pressure cooker relieved of its lid.
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Macri's government has also announced the softening of import-export restrictions, among other important liberalization efforts.
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Under the deal, Turkey will also see visa liberalization talks and EU membership negotiations speeded up.
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For workers displaced by trade liberalization, education and retraining are the proper mechanisms for assisting them.
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Following the liberalization of the economy in 1991, land acquisitions were largely for the private sector.
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Cavusoglu also said that he expects European Union to meet its commitments regarding the visa liberalization.
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Basu, the EIU analyst, said economic liberalization in the North could also negatively affect the South.
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If Democrats want to bury Republicans as a party, they can start by embracing trade liberalization.
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Under President Obama, the federal government grudgingly accepted the states' gradual liberalization of their marijuana policies.
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But Levi jeans and Marlboro Lights did little to assuage the pain inflicted by swift liberalization.
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Government and business elites see liberalization in either area as dangerous to a comfortable status quo.
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But I don't foresee a more formal liberalization of online censorship happening in the near term.
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Analysts say the president is likely to focus on pushing economic reform rather than social liberalization.
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About 8,500 manufacturing jobs are produced for every $1 billion in added exports from trade liberalization.
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Underlying their protectionist move is the damage done in the 1980s and 1990s by economic liberalization.
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Conversely, liberalization of health care markets would increase the supply of physicians and allied health professionals.
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Trade liberalization hasn't only affected General Motors and other foreign auto companies that decided to migrate.
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Hardliners, entrenched in institutions Khamenei controls such as the judiciary, are determined to prevent domestic liberalization.
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The chamber has repeatedly called for further liberalization of the energy sector to address the problem.
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It hopes the launch of the environmentally service may encourage a liberalization of the car-sharing sector.
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Of course, any North Korean attempt at liberalization will depend on the progress of ongoing nuclear negotiations.
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The liberalization of fuel prices in Mexico is part of a landmark energy reform finalized in 2014.
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Both countries have been cheerleaders for economic liberalization since the 1980s under Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher.
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Pena Nieto pitched his presidency on a platform of economic liberalization, earning plaudits from U.S.-based investors.
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Much of that is owing to mainland China's progress — or liberalization — in economic, cultural and trade affairs.
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Top EU officials publicly say both Georgia and Ukraine have met all the conditions for visa liberalization.
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Any loss of the party and the state's economic monopoly or dominance might lead to political liberalization.
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The trickiest challenge of her administration may be managing relations with the military while pushing liberalization along.
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Zhu said the time is right for China to step up the liberalization of its financial sector.
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Trade, investment and people-to-people exchange did not bring political liberalization or human rights to China.
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Many then saw Iran heading for detente with the West, economic reform, social liberalization and political pluralism.
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There is also an elemental tension between Xi's efforts to aggrandize political power and promote economic liberalization.
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That disproportionate impact suggests Washington officialdom might do well to reassess its approach to future trade liberalization.
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And when massive trade liberalization happened in places like Mexico, the hoped-for growth miracles didn't materialize.
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The middle classes and political liberalization are less closely connected than we have been made to believe.
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The future of trade liberalization seems to lie in the hands of the rest of the world.
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Instead of leading the way on trade liberalization, U.S. interests are now being shoved aside by others.
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The Trump administration is actively working to reduce the regulatory burden on financial institutions, to include possible liberalization in the Volcker Rule (which restricts covered institutions from making proprietary investments) as well as liberalization in the capital and liquidity requirements that have resulted in depressed returns on equity.
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In an interview with broadcaster A Haber, Cavusoglu said the migrant deal and visa liberalization were a package.
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The start of a new round of trade liberalization talks with the EU is expected for early 2017.
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" "In the past 25 years there has been an overwhelming global trend toward the liberalization of abortion laws.
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LG: I personally think the China government adopted a lot of measures, of liberalization in trade and investments.
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Second, it has complemented external liberalization with domestic reforms through deregulation and lowering the cost of doing business.
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China's rapid growth and economic liberalization, beginning in the early 1980s, caused it to join the global economy.
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Cancer, flu medicines and antibiotics were among medicines that would be affected by the price liberalization, Koca said.
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Trade liberalization has enabled transnational companies to flood the Mexican market, changing diet and health for the worse.
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Naturally enough, it ignores opposition from those Saudis who are alarmed by even limited moves toward social liberalization.
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"We will adopt policies to promote high standards of liberalization and facilitation of trade and investment," he added.
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"We have to find a middle point that does not damage our economies with extreme liberalization," Guajardo said.
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With Greece's consent, the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia gained European Union candidate status and secured visa liberalization.
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But the process by which trade liberalization was sought was all about political realism rather than abstract ideals.
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Economic liberalization in the early 22020s brought rapid growth to the Indian economy and a reduction in poverty.
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The PRC will neither curb subsidies and state support for national champions of industry nor pursue market liberalization.
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What matters now is setting the issue aside so that it no longer subverts prospects for trade liberalization.
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In fact, President Xi's Harvard-educated top economic advisor, Liu He, is a strong advocate for economic liberalization.
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Such liberalization might increase investment, but as a policy to minimize dependence on exporting natural resources, it fails.
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Cinema 21 is ready to compete "healthily" in response to the liberalization, Corporate Secretary Catherine Keng told Reuters.
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The country's prohibitionist approach to marijuana is increasingly at odds with the United States, where liberalization is advancing.
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That's a possibility, especially if we continue to pin our hopes on an evolutionary process of generational liberalization.
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A historian, he has long been involved in debates about China's future, advocating a path of political liberalization.
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He wanted to know why African and Latin American countries that followed the bank's liberalization policies remained poor.
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A hero to conservatives who adore his strong Christian faith and resistance to the country's rapid social liberalization.
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The 21990s were the era of deregulation and economic liberalization, the age of Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan.
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But many entrepreneurs are more broadly worried that China won't pursue the economic and political liberalization it needs.
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Lopez Obrador has put the brakes on that liberalization process, saying it has not yielded benefits for Mexico.
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Vietnam's incredible economic growth, spurred by economic liberalization, has led to an increase across the board in development.
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Rates were then raised in 1922 and 2500, before liberalization became a consistent trend in American trade policy.
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The difference is that China started 20 or 30 years ahead of us in terms of economic liberalization.
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Heckman explains that the spike in sales can be chalked up to the slow liberalization of fireworks laws.
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Demonstrators called for greater political openness, including freedom of speech and democracy, to match the country's growing economic liberalization.
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Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier said it remained up to Turkey to fulfill the conditions required for visa liberalization.
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The terms were strictly "liberal"; reduce lending rates, float exchange rate, price liberalization, raise utility rates, eliminate tariffs, etc.
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There could be some political leverage because of political concession, including visa liberalization - but this remains to be seen.
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As the A380 hit the world's runways, a worldwide liberalization of flight routes known as "Open Skies" was underway.
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Juppé responds with a sunnier promise: With restored economic prosperity through liberalization, France can recover from its spiritual malaise.
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It varies, but, by and large, nations are looking to a future without U.S. leadership on advancing market liberalization.
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Hundreds of millions of people have been helped out of poverty by an American-led system of trade liberalization.
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As many experts in the United States have pointed out, market liberalization could be good for China, as well.
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But Kim Jong Un cannot benefit from their support in his reputed liberalization campaign because he had them murdered.
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The European Commission, conceived as an agent of economic liberalization, became a byword for regulatory overreach and technocratic micromanagement.
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Burma's liberalization ended in renewed military supremacy and the bloody expulsion of some 730,1343 Rohingya Muslims into neighboring Bangladesh.
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Based in Denver, he's been campaigning for marijuana liberalization since the early days of the George W. Bush administration.
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For protesters in Hong Kong, that gives further urgency to calls for more liberalization, for some even outright independence.
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The IPO was supposed to usher in a new era of economic liberalization and foreign investment in Saudi Arabia.
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"This is a giant step toward interest rate liberalization," said Liu Wencai, founder of risk-management consultancy D-Union.
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The U.S. didn't force greater liberalization of China's markets, and tariffs remain on $370 billion worth of Chinese exports.
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Anger over decades of trade liberalization played a key role in putting Donald J. Trump in the White House.
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The EU said the trade liberalization will help raise European exports of chemicals, clothing, cosmetics and beer to Japan.
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Her move showed that even the Obama-style trade liberalization was going to be a hard sell for Democrats.
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These policies included reduction of top marginal tax rates, the liberalization of trade, privatization of government services, and deregulation.
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In the 1990s, when India started the process of liberalization, the generation before ours (our parents) were bombarded with opportunities.
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Likewise, foreign investors face daunting challenges in investing in local companies, even with liberalization programs over the last two decades.
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Davis said Britain would press for further liberalization of services and engage with international bodies like the World Trade Organization.
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Ryan, a much truer believer in immigration liberalization than Boehner, could conceivably call a vote on that kind of bill.
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India's latest reports on job creation may have tipped the scales in favor of further economic liberalization, some experts said.
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Romania, South Africa, Bangladesh and Nepal have all seen significant decreases in maternal mortality following the liberalization of abortion policy.
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The EU is working on visa liberalization for Turkey in exchange for Ankara's help on migration, but major hurdles remain.
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Trade agreements where both sides lower their barriers are a tried-and-true method of this kind of trade liberalization.
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But Mr. Xi has instead adopted a staunchly traditionalist political line, warning against political liberalization and defending Mao's revered status.
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While trade liberalization surely hurt some workers, it has more often served as a scapegoat for the ravages of automation.
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Economic globalization was supposed to accelerate political liberalization around the world, but instead authoritarianism appeared to be on the rise.
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The new list of areas marked for liberalization elaborated on draft foreign investment guidelines that China published earlier this month.
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Although these moves might make headlines, the fact remains that the vast majority of Republicans oppose the liberalization of weed.
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She also attempted to pander to Quebec's sovereignty movement, saying that immigration and trade liberalization were threatening the French language.
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He was a union leader who also pushed through free-market liberalization, cutting protective tariffs and privatizing state-owned industries.
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After nearly five years in power, he has proved to be a committed authoritarian who considers political liberalization a threat.
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This, I think, is what happened after 1990, partly because of containerization, partly because of trade liberalization in developing countries.
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But hardline opponents are determined to prevent it leading to any liberalization of the Islamic system through the ballot box.
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The Kachin crisis looks like a casualty of liberalization in Myanmar, or at least like one of its great paradoxes.
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The specific challenges of the Kachin conflict are now hostage to the broader difficulties of seeing through Myanmar's political liberalization.
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"Economic liberalization and opening appears to be the only viable survival strategy," according to Park of Liberty in North Korea.
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Protectionism has never been far from the surface but the broad trend has been in the direction of greater liberalization.
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REFORM-MINDED Yi has advocated for interest rate and currency liberalization, cautioning against risks from excessive credit and money growth.
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Second, the administration needs to make constructive proposals for trade liberalization with other countries, in order to get negotiations underway.
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This happened as market liberalization spread, lifting billions of people out of abject poverty over the past two decades alone.
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To Vatican II's critics, a broad definition of this spirit is responsible for a more general "liberalization" in the church.
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They pursued trade liberalization in service of embracing global competition; the left's dire warnings of jobs shipping overseas went unheeded.
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As my colleague Dylan Matthews explains: They complained that European integration was, especially then, largely a process of economic liberalization.
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The plans for the insurance sector, the world's third-largest insurance market, show the liberalization plan has not been derailed.
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Economists have warned such moves could spark a trade war and roll back decades of liberalization, which has buoyed international shipping.
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It's also a huge win for the regional Sikh community, which has long demanded the liberalization of travel to holy places.
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On Tuesday, Turkey's Deputy Prime Minister Mehmet Simsek said Ankara will meet criteria for visa liberalization by the beginning of May.
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Iceland's center-right party, which had masterminded the country's financial liberalization, lost power to a left-wing coalition in February 2009.
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Because the last 50 years really has been a period of trade liberalization and we are into a different period now.
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"This liberalization is in fact destroying Italian families," said Di Maio, who is head of the anti-establishment 5-Star Movement.
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MALICE: Yes, but they also wouldn&apost want to escalate to a total liberalization of North Korea and possible societal collapse.
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Instead of opting for a full liberalization of growing cannabis, Israeli government is looking to take full control of the market.
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The processes to disengage with the EU will take years, years of potential liberalization that we can't afford to let slip.
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From a trade liberalization perspective, RCEP is shallow and even backward-looking, but it's the only game in town for Asia.
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He also said it was to the advantage of all EU citizens to remove customs costs and have greater trade liberalization.
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Dubai-based Emirates said the aim should be balanced and non-discriminatory regulation serving as a catalyst for increased European liberalization.
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The idea that North Korea can become another re-unification, liberalization, and development success story like Vietnam sounds great, doesn't it?
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But after the liberalization of imports and falling demand for timber in the 20113s, most young people left for the city.
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Several economists said Mr. Xi's supply-side initiative may turn out to be cosmetic — promising market liberalization yet magnifying state control.
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Ending the monopoly of Petrobras on refining should cement the liberalization of fuel pricing, Parente said, another reform enacted under Temer.
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By the end of the Obama administration, officials in Washington feared China was straying from the path of liberalization and cooperation.
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Inspired by the student movement that sprang up during market liberalization, they made alliances by creating software for anti-government dissidents.
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And people tend to talk as though an FTA is the only tool we have available in terms of trade liberalization.
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Mexico also hopes to move ahead with the liberalization for services and investment, and support for small and medium-sized companies.
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Sugar policy liberalization by the United States would strengthen the administration's hand in negotiations to request similar actions by other countries.
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But he was increasingly drawn into political questions as Deng Xiaoping, the Communist leader, resisted matching economic liberalization with political transformation.
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Old assumptions — about American leadership, gradual Chinese liberalization, European integration, the freeing impact of technology, the unity of Great Britain — collapse.
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He successfully lobbied for the introduction of public hearings into Poland's parliamentary procedures and the liberalization of Poland's consumer bankruptcy protocol.
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His biggest accomplishment in the State Legislature was the first liberalization of California's abortion law in a century, passed in 1967.
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Some media commentators have seen Xi's trip to Guangdong as an opportunity for Beijing to reaffirm its commitment to economic liberalization.
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Still, recent presidents from both parties — Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, and Barack Obama — have all favored trade liberalization.
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Wacziarg and Welch looked at 50 years of trade data to figure out the effects of trade liberalization on economic growth.
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During the negotiating process, labor groups said that trade liberalization without strong labor standards puts American workers at a competitive disadvantage.
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There's considerable push for further liberalization to provide greater transparency and market-based pricing, features that attract competition and increase exporter interest.
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But chances of Congress approving the deal this year remain slim amid hostility to new trade liberalization from both Democrats and Republicans.
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Company executives who met with government officials this week were told to expect an announcement on the liberalization plan, possibly next week.
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But the controlled-economy state has faced criticisms that its liberalization and reforms have not been moving at a fast-enough pace.
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Xi has been criticized outside of China for slowing or reversing some of the country's progress toward greater openness and economic liberalization.
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Visa liberalization, which must come by June 30, would be an important sign that the Europeans are living up to their promises.
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"We saw large flows into the fund after the liberalization of the exchange rate," Beltone's asset management director, Kareem Naema, told Reuters.
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Since the election in November of a protectionist-minded U.S. president, China has emerged as arguably the biggest advocate of trade liberalization.
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The billionaire Sheldon Adelson, who has spent $5 million against marijuana liberalization proposals this year, has not contributed to the California campaign.
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The "bond connect marks another milestone in the liberalization of the mainland's capital account," said Norman Chan, chief executive of the HKMA.
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Q. Could one then also hope for a big reform push now, as with Deng's 1992 "Southern Tour" to revive economic liberalization?
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The liberalization, the most ambitious plank of President Enrique Pena Nieto's economic policy, started just as oil prices crashed in 2013-2014.
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The Congress Party, famous for its "reforms by stealth," had made liberalization seem like something done at the expense of the poor.
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The move chimes with Japan's plan for nationwide liberalization of its 2.4 trillion yen ($20 billion) retail gas market in April 2017.
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Widodo said that, so far, he has not faced any political backlash or resistance to the steps he has taken towards liberalization.
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We may also be witnessing a phenomenon that conservatives have railed against for years: the gradual liberalization of justices as they age.
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This makes it just part of a broader wave of intellectually couched but factually dubious pushback against the liberalization of pot laws.
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Background One of the key steps towards capital account liberalization and Special Drawing Right (SDR) inclusion was loosening control of the currency.
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However these tools are much less effective due to previous market liberalization steps and investors finding new ways to circumvent the rules.
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Instead, many say, Mr. Xi's drive to extend party control, stifle public debate and defend the state sector have stymied economic liberalization.
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The biggest risk, however, is that short-term pain causes officials to reverse this long-overdue liberalization, as they have done before.
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So Kosovo remains the only country in Europe without visa liberalization, meaning that it is almost impossible for its people to travel.
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A more realistic history of how human rights improve appreciates that democracy is the end, not the beginning, of a society's liberalization.
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To offset the effects of trade liberalization agreements like NAFTA, the U.S. used Trade Adjustment Assistance to help workers transition and retrain.
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The gains from trade liberalization are distributed broadly to nearly everyone in the form of lower prices everything from TVs to toys.
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First promoted in 2016, the company's partial privatization was supposed to usher in a new era of economic liberalization in Saudi Arabia.
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First touted in 2016, the company's partial privatization was supposed to usher in a new era of economic liberalization in Saudi Arabia.
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While China's economic liberalization began under Deng Xiaoping in 1978, by 1990 it rated only 4.09 on the EFW's 10-point scale.
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China's measured liberalization understates its degree of market reform because it doesn't account for the additional economic freedom in special enterprise zones.
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By ignoring these achievements of market liberalization and continuing to push for more government control, Pope Francis undermines entrepreneurship and wealth creation.
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During President Obama's policy of normalization, Cuba has shown some modest progress on religious freedom, economic liberalization and even freedom of expression.
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"Presidents are all protectionist to some extent," but all the recent presidents — Democrats and Republicans — have been broadly supportive of trade liberalization.
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One of China's most prominent dissidents, Mr. Liu led efforts to promote political liberalization in the country until his arrest in 2008.
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What he has yet to see, Mr. Giorgis said, is whether those words and gestures add up to a strategy of liberalization.
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Last year, the authorities in Beijing shut the Unirule Institute of Economics, a private think tank that favored economic and political liberalization.
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None of this proves that marijuana liberalization causes lower opioid-related mortality, something the authors of the 2014 JAMA study pointed out.
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He has also pointed out that rail liberalization is obligatory under European Union rules, with France behind other member states in meeting requirements.
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U.S. officials stressed that the practical impact will depend on Cuban economic liberalization, as previous U.S. attempts at promoting commerce have largely stalled.
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Reaction to Brazil's liberalization been slow, but already Spanish airline group Globalia has declared its intention to operate a domestic airline in Brazil.
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El Salvador has bucked the regional trend toward liberalization of abortion laws, even as reports of sexual violence have increased in recent years.
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Earlier this week, Mexico's finance ministry moved ahead by one month a long-awaited liberalization of fuel prices, previously scheduled for Dec. 30.
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Ethiopian has been forced to adopt the piecemeal approach to expansion because full air transport liberalization has failed to materialize, despite several attempts.
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President Peña's apparent support for liberalization of Mexico's marijuana laws had come as a surprise given his previous explicit rejection of the idea.
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One reason that the complaints by foreign investors are that the speed of liberalization in China is not as fast as they expected.
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Economic liberalization had loosened restrictions for what could appear on the airwaves, but there was now the added pressure of turning a profit.
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Former army general Thein Sein is credited with launching an economic liberalization program that has drawn major multinationals to Myanmar's thriving consumer industry.
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Originating in Japan, the amorous accommodations rose to prominence in South Korea in the late 1980s during an era of growing sexual liberalization.
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Economic liberalization and a growing Chinese middle class failed to bring with it the Western-style democratic freedoms that some thought would follow.
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The ongoing question is whether Raul Castro himself will agree to any political or economic liberalization or moves toward actual rule of law.
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"Markets are expecting more exchange rate liberalization in the next six months, but policymakers seem to be seeking convergence by 2019," Babb added.
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But past leaders lacked the authority to take on the corruption and abuses that have flourished since the economic liberalization of the 1990s.
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That would be a far bigger step forward for Saudi women and more convincing evidence that this is a country embracing social liberalization.
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Liberalization of gambling laws has led to strong growth of the industry in recent years in major economies such as Ghana and Kenya.
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Rouhani's reformist rhetoric, with its emphasis on domestic liberalization and the loosening of restrictions, stood in stark contrast with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's firebrand style.
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The IMF said that while China should move towards capital account liberalization, only carefully targeted reforms should be considered in the near-term.
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Consumer prices eased by more than expected in the first half of February to the lowest level since a liberalization of gasoline costs.
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Those tensions became increasingly sharp from early 1987, when Deng began a campaign against "bourgeois liberalization," a term for liberal and dissenting ideas.
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During the Cold War, the United States sponsored information programs aimed at Soviet citizens with the hope of creating internal pressure for liberalization.
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Why has the abortion issue had such staying power, compared, for example, with the steady liberalization of views on homosexuality and interracial marriage?
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In a speech on the 40th anniversary of China's economic liberalization efforts, President Xi Jinping delivered a powerful defense of his economic policies.
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Due to trade liberalization policies in the 1990s, manufacturers flooded South Korea with rice and meat sold at below the cost of production.
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But Xi has also reversed gradual liberalization and opening up which occurred post-SARS, massively centralizing power within the Communist Party once again.
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Australia: The government strongly rebuked Beijing for detaining Yang Hengjun, a Chinese-born Australian writer who has called for the liberalization of China.
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Programs like the Stock Connect are aimed at opening the door wider — but also at retaining state control over the pace of liberalization.
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While many are hopeful for the three-day BRICS summit to advance trade liberalization, divergent policies between members could stand in the way.
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Hanoi has undergone a "remarkable" transformation, as the World Bank puts it, since embracing market liberalization in the 1980s without ceding political authority.
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Coal imports are surging after the government failed to open the industry to competition, despite having passed a liberalization policy 19 months ago.
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Market liberalization, combined with a huge influx of foreign money, has helped raise property prices in central Lisbon 30 percent in two years.
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Thus the only currency liberalization under consideration is a widening of the yuan's trading band, a move that would make no practical difference.
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Mr. Liu shot to official notoriety in 1989, when he sided with the student protesters who occupied Tiananmen Square to demand political liberalization.
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Greater Noida symbolizes the post-liberalization India of aspiration, the India of new money, tower blocks, corporate offices, private universities and shopping malls.
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After a trial in a few of its free-trade zones, China in October expanded to the entire country a new liberalization program.
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About six months later, Salazar became incapacitated after a stroke, and Caetano, his successor, initiated a slow political liberalization of the corporatist state.
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EU leaders have promised to speed up visa liberalization for Turkey, aiming for agreement by late June if Ankara meets the many conditions.
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Before conceding visa liberalization, Brussels wants Turkey to soften the anti-terrorism law, a tall request for Ankara particularly after the failed coup.
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The claim of unfair trade practices has been a rallying cry for those opposing trade liberalization from the political left and the right.
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Yet one person told Reuters his conservative friends had privately cheered the attack, and some mosque preachers continue to rail against social liberalization.
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For China observers, the centralization of power by a given Chinese leader always raises two different scenarios about the prospect for political liberalization.
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The moves mark Europe's increased insistence that trading partnerships go beyond liberalization and be coupled with commitments to environmental, labor and social standards.
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But liberalization in Japan's energy markets means the old guard utilities are losing customers to new entrants and they are desperate to cut costs.
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Turkish foreign ministry officials confirmed that officials from Ankara would meet with their European counterparts next week to determine a roadmap on visa liberalization.
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Several EU countries, including France, also have misgivings about the visa liberalization, saying Ankara must meet 72 EU criteria before it could be implemented.
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This suggests that changes in the broader society around them, rather than changes in evangelical theology, are behind evangelicals' liberalization on same-sex marriage.
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China is a digital giant, and has been one of the most enthusiastic WTO member states in pushing for discussions on digital trade liberalization.
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You have a deceleration of trade liberalization and of the expansion of the supply chains and the change in structure of the Chinese economy.
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Asked whether the Commission still intended to propose liberalization of visa requirements for Ukrainians this month, he noted that Juncker had previously proposed this.
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So it's understandable, if you compare China with other countries, I think we are very ambitious to further promote the trade and investments liberalization.
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Where the British see pettifogging bureaucracy harming business, the French see hated liberalization measures that will transform France into a United States en miniature.
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Back then, Wukan was held up among democracy activists as a symbol of liberalization, a hopeful sign that China was open to political change.
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For the British, a deal is critical to illustrate that leaving a massive trade bloc is not an impediment to pursuing trade liberalization elsewhere.
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With political liberalization under way in South Africa, and to a lesser extent elsewhere, African political parties needed help getting started, he told me.
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A study by the Peterson Institute found that past trade liberalization laws added between $7,100 to 12,900 in additional income to the average household.
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A backlash against globalization on both sides of the Atlantic, however, makes the deal a test case for the West's commitment to trade liberalization.
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During the years following the lifting of the U.S. sanctions in 2004, I witnessed the emergence of liberalization policies towards women's rights in Libya.
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"We have to go ahead with the liberalization of the economy, we have no other choice (if we are to) reduce poverty," he said.
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Elsewhere in Paris, more than 1,500 people, led by the powerful CGT labor federation, marched in protest against Macron's planned liberalization of labor laws.
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The document issued by the state planner listed priority sectors for liberalization but was unclear over the extent and time-frame for the reforms.
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But while the leadership talks of financial liberalization, some facets of life inside the world's second-largest economy are becoming a lot less free.
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XIAMEN, China (Reuters) - The BRICS group of countries must promote trade liberalization and an open world economy, Chinese President Xi Jinping said on Sunday.
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Mr. Bittarelli was also upset that Roman taxi drivers are often maligned as a privileged lobby that fights things like the liberalization of licenses.
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"The Japanese electricity market is attractive for Shell as the market's liberalization is progressing," she said, but declined to give any numerical business targets.
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In a speech on the 40th anniversary of China's economic liberalization efforts, President Xi, depicted above, delivered an unabashed defense of his economic policies.
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Greece and the lenders are discussing the liberalization of the loan market as part of measures to reduce the volume of non-performing loans.
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That risks further antagonizing a skeptical European Parliament, the EU's most vocal institution on human rights and freedom, which has to approve visa liberalization.
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Economists, including at the National Bureau of Economic Research, attribute the job losses in part to increased trade liberalization and technological advances including automation.
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But the recent economic liberalization has created opportunities for companies able to adjust to serving the one in 22016 Venezuelans with dollars to spare.
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In the 1990s, though, the party refurbished Mao's image and fostered a popular revival to bolster its authority and blunt calls for political liberalization.
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The drastic economic liberalization has been accompanied by political repression designed to snuff out the last vestiges of organized opposition to Mr. Maduro's rule.
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Nicosia could also try to block visa liberalization for Turks since the EU conditions include the principle of equal treatment of all member states.
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When it joined the World Trade Organization in 2001, China agreed to a broad liberalization of trade in services, including data processing and telecommunications.
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After decades of U.S. trade liberalization, President-elect Donald Trump could make sweeping changes that would limit the supply of some cheap goods from abroad.
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Seen by the public as a champion for liberalization, Hu had been deposed two years earlier and his death on April 15 was widely mourned.
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Reality check: After the Iran nuclear deal led to sanctions relief, Tehran realized that it needed FATF liberalization to foster business with Europe and elsewhere.
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These include capital account liberalization, also known as removing restrictions on the movement of capital across borders and fiscal consolidation, sometimes referred to as austerity.
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The overall share of power sales by new power entrants has more than doubled to over 12 percent since full market liberalization in April 103.
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But the industry sensed hope as regulators stuck to derivatives liberalization throughout 2018 despite slumping share prices, in stark contrast to their response in 2016.
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It was a battle for the very soul of a traditionally conservative Roman Catholic nation that has seen a wave of liberalization in recent years.
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Moreover, India's agriculture sector isn't globally competitive, so any trade agreement that includes liberalization of agriculture markets would be detrimental to New Delhi, he continued.
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As Hanoi prepares to host the second U.S.-North Korea summit in late February, experts believe Kim may be more inclined toward Vietnamese-style liberalization.
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People swarm around a clothesline and squint at dozens of pinned essays condemning the past 30 years of liberalization or positively reappraising the Cultural Revolution.
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PARIS (Reuters) - The Paris region opened its bus system to competition on Wednesday, kicking off the liberalization of one of Europe's biggest public transport systems.
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In Thailand, there has been debate on broader liberalization of laws around marijuana after the drug was legalized for medical use and research in 2018.
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That has raised speculation that China could announce a liberalization in the financial sector soon — though expectations for any significant structural moves are quite low.
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Fashion racism is built into and extends from the trade liberalization policies in the 1980s and 1990s that expanded western corporations' labor and consumer markets.
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" Myron Brilliant, executive vice president and head of international affairs at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, said Mr. Liu "wants market liberalization with Chinese characteristics.
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Facing both the trade war and a slowdown in growth that began in the middle of last year, China's leadership has embraced some modest liberalization.
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This was also a key trigger for other important on-shore reforms including interest rate liberalization and bond market reforms - which are now almost completed.
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He also noted that "the biggest amount of liberalization is on the Canadian side" — not Mexico's — through gradually opening Canadian markets to American dairy imports.
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With no access to capital, and no family living abroad to send back money, Afro-Cubans are being excluded from the benefits of economic liberalization.
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" The Northern Ireland secretary, Karen Bradley, said she supported liberalization, though she argued that the matter "should be decided by the people of Northern Ireland.
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Scholars and pundits have reassured us that economic liberalization will give rise to powerful middle classes, which will eventually bring about democratic forms of politics.
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Clearly that part of crossword construction has changed over the years with the advances of technology and the liberalization of what is an acceptable entry.
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While responding to Trump's tariff threats with retaliation, China recently announced market liberalization plans such as scrapping a limit on foreign ownership of automotive ventures.
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The liberalization thrust has seemed to run out of momentum in recent years with the failure to conclude a new round of global trade negotiations.
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Trade tensions between the United States and China have revealed the shallowness of political support for the current open trading system let alone further liberalization.
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The problem, critics say, is that Mr. Xi's demands for centralized control, stability and political conformity have often drowned out hesitant steps toward economic liberalization.
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Critics argue that this is "neoliberal identity politics," and it gives its proponents the space to perpetuate the policies of deregulation, privatization, liberalization, and austerity.
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They thought globalization was inevitable and that ever-expanding trade liberalization was desirable even if the political system never corrected for trade's winners and losers.
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Erdogan's main priority is to change the constitution to secure extensive presidential rule and he has said October would also be acceptable for visa liberalization.
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The Trump administration may not have the faintest idea that the mobile ecosystems of today owe so much to liberalization of the old telecoms regime.
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The moves mark the EU's increased insistence that trading partnerships go beyond market liberalization and be coupled with commitments to environmental, labor and social standards.
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When he came to power 15 years ago, Mr. Erdogan won wide support as a pro-European, moderate Islamist who supported democracy and economic liberalization.
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Vietnam is far less repressive than North Korea, but its economic liberalization has not been matched by a comparable expansion of political and civil rights.
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While much of Brazil's economy is still highly protected, the current administration of President Jair Bolsonaro has made economic liberalization a cornerstone of its agenda.
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Davutoglu's price was a doubling of European money to keep Syrian refugees in Turkey, faster visa liberalization for Turks and accelerated EU membership talks for Ankara.
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Worries over a new crisis in the European Union and Brexit, and concerns about Donald Trump's presidency and a backlash against trade liberalization also featured prominently.
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The fate of Mr. Obama's own programs could be affected, including his liberalization of immigration deportation rules and his environmental crackdown on coal-fired power plants.
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ADDIS ABABA, June 7 (Reuters) - Ethiopia's parliament will on Monday approve a law covering the liberalization of the state-controlled telecoms sector, a parliament spokesman said.
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In an opinion piece in Channel 9 newspapers on Thursday, he argued the West had wrongly calculated that economic liberalization in China would lead to democratization.
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In 2015, the profits of U.S. firms that invested in China reached $36.2 billion, and China will continue to support trade and investment liberalization, Hua said.
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The EU embeds a very British, pro-market-oriented economic philosophy based on privatization, market liberalization, free trade, opposition to state aid, and opposition to protectionism.
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"Power market liberalization in Japan now demands that utilities have more flexibility in coal prices in their ability to pass-on fuel costs," Wood Mackenzie said.
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Years of exploitation by China, along with a host of other factors, have undermined the global economic order and degraded public support for international trade liberalization.
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OCBC's Xie said the move is a "half step" toward interest rate liberalization, and the link to the medium-term lending rate may only be temporary.
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So far, economic changes, which have been officially communicated in state propaganda as Kim-led initiatives to improve living standards, have come with little political liberalization.
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General Secretary Gorbachev, if you seek peace and prosperity for the Soviet Union in the Eastern Europe, if you seek liberalization, come here to this gate.
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The Italian and Polish initiatives run against a slow liberalization of Sunday shopping hours throughout Europe, where retailers face pressure from a boom in online shopping.
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Economic liberalization has a trickle-down effect to per-capita growth, the organization found: The more free the economy, the more wealthy citizens tend to be.
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A confluence of factors puts China at the financial technology ("fintech") forefront: economic advancement, investor behavior, mobile technology, big data, financial industry liberalization, and regulatory acquiescence.
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"Worldwide there is a trend towards liberalization and increasing consumption," said Robin Murray, a professor at King College's London's the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience.
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Fortunately, China's opening and liberalization have taken a more lucrative path for the country and its citizens, no doubt learning from the failures of the USSR.
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One of Thein Sein's most significant accomplishments was the liberalization of the country's closed telecommunications sector, which had long been dominated by a state-owned monopoly.
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Even at the lower growth rates, Airbus said its forecasts contained more traffic and deliveries thanks to more tourism, liberalization and a surge in private consumption.
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In terms of policy coordination, it could also be some sort of liberalization, policies on further cooperation on the real sector that governments can think of.
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"Politically and strategically it is very important that we deliver visa-liberalization for Ukraine," said another member of European Parliament, Portugal's Ana Gomes of the Socialists.
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Johns Hopkins' Hanke also said that an economic liberalization may help spark an eventual revival, yet most observers say that is unlikely given Maduro's ideological bent.
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It wasn't until 1998 that the reformers began again — a period of reform that lasted a decade until 2008-09, when the regime abandoned relative liberalization.
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There is little doubt that the lower rates of inflation for shoes, clothing and vehicles are, in part if not entirely, the consequence of trade liberalization.
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"The CSRC had previously been pretty slow at working out liberalization issues," said Ivan Shi, head of research at Shanghai-based investment consultancy Z-Ben Advisors.
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China saw the largest migration in history from rural poverty to urban factories, starting in the 1980s after economic liberalization put an end to communist experimentation.
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Hardline fundamentalists, still entrenched in institutions Khamenei controls such as the judiciary, are keen to prevent either the new opening to the world or domestic liberalization.
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But by now we know enough of how development can look — and how it can race ahead without accompanying political liberalization — to rejoice with some reserve.
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He was arrested along with hundreds of other figures seen as a threat to Sadat's policies, including the 1979 peace treaty with Israel and economic liberalization.
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"When I talk about technology and the internet, people normally pine for them and look forward to a future that will promote liberalization," Mr. Sui said.
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As early as 1987, he painted a grim picture of the consequences of perestroika and glasnost, the liberalization programs that Mr. Gorbachev had put in place.
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Collymore cited Ethiopia, where economic liberalization plans put in place by a new prime minister last year have left firms scrambling to position themselves for entry.
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The Chinese leader's economic adviser, an American-educated technocrat, is pushing for economic liberalization, but his agenda could be hurt by fears of a trade war.
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Any talk of outreach or liberalization seems more dangerous than it has in years and is likely to fade from public debate for the time being.
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She attributed the economy's comeback in that decade to a "neoliberal recipe for growth," whose ingredients included market solutions, fiscal discipline, liberalization of trade and deregulation.
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Some energy sector workers walked out on Tuesday in protest against the planned liberalization of the power sector, but there was little impact on power output.
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With the liberalization of cannabis laws in some states, more patient education is needed on the impact that different forms of cannabis can have on health.
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Everyone from the International Monetary Fund to the European Commission was urging Hollande to undertake a program of economic liberalization in order to remedy the problem.
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He has threatened Mexico and China with punitive tariffs that some economists have warned could spark a trade war that could potentially roll back decades of liberalization.
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"This is great for growth but this is worrisome in terms of moving backwards in China's financial liberalization because you're going back to more targets," she said.
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"The buyers in Japan have been buying LNG in different conditions now than in the past due to the liberalization of power and gas markets," he said.
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Mexico is undergoing a gradual gasoline price liberalization, part of a landmark 2014 energy overhaul, which caused fuel prices to spike by double-digits on Jan. 1.
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ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkish legislation to meet European Union criteria on visa liberalization will be completed on Monday, Turkey's minister for EU affairs, Volkan Bozkir said on Thursday.
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DAVID MALPASS: I'm not sure bitcoin or blockchain is as important as the liberalization of an internal market that allows people to hold money of real value.
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The ministers were not due to agree on visa liberalization for Georgia, which just a few ago weeks seemed on track to secure the privilege this summer.
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It presided over the privatization of the banks, the liberalization of the financial sector and its demise, and the country's eventual economic recovery from its 2008 crisis.
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Jeon says this is "mosquito-net style" reform - similar to Deng Xiaoping's model - with limited foreign investment and market liberalization contained within firm strictures of state control.
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So our government tries to work together with the international community to further promote the liberalization and facilitation of trade and investment to further promote international cooperation.
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"We are willing to use practical actions to drive all parties to jointly adhere to trade liberalization and facilitation and build an open world economy," Xi added.
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Earlier this month it also published a report it commissioned which claims there would be "significant economic and environmental benefits" flowing from the liberalization of VTC licenses.
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The legislative push comes as the marijuana industry presents itself in a new light as it seeks to dispel the political stigma surrounding liberalization of pot laws.
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The opening for non-Pemex fuel importers in Mexico is happening in tandem with a region-by-region liberalization of fuel prices, previously fixed by the government.
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Under the deal, Turkey agreed to help stem the flow of illegal migrants to Europe in return for accelerated EU accession talks, visa liberalization, and financial aid.
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Anti-corruption legislation was also a condition of a "visa liberalization action plan" with the EU, an economic and political bloc that Ukraine would like to join.
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By the time the shah began a program of liberalization—relaxing, as he had suppressed years before, freedoms of press, speech and protest—it was too late.
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Those who advocate for the continued criminalization of cannabis have long alleged liberalization of America's marijuana laws will lead to a parallel rise in teenage pot experimentation.
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CT: Well still on China, earlier this week, we've had the 19th Communist Party Congress and we have China of course pledging further liberalization of its economy.
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It's hoped to boost domestic spending on entertainment and leisure, while also signifying a move toward greater social liberalization in a country heavily controlled by religious laws.
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In Russia, and now in countries from Hungary to Poland, and in China, forms of authoritarianism are ascendant and liberalism (or even modest liberalization) are in retreat.
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Some older voters, concerned about the rapid liberalization of Ireland, said that Mr. Byrne's backing of the amendment had persuaded them to vote in favor of it.
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This reflects decades of reciprocal tariff liberalization, mostly under the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), which is now part of the World Trade Organization (WTO).
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All that trade liberalization took place under the GATT because countries recognized that tariff wars hurt; they would be better off if they mutually lowered their barriers.
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Globalization and trade liberalization are increasingly questioned, Ryder said, noting that the intentions of the incoming U.S. administration of Donald Trump were a "major cause of uncertainty".
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The following year, the Chinese government began a program of economic liberalization and designated Shenzhen as a "special economic zone," freeing it from China's more onerous regulations.
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Supporters of decriminalization see their efforts as part of a larger, decades-long liberalization of American mores, like lifting Sunday bans on selling alcohol and legalizing marijuana.
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So we go for a limited version of globalization, which is what the postwar Bretton Woods regime was about (with its capital controls and limited trade liberalization).
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But his notion of reform is unlikely to look much like previous bouts of economic liberalization that Deng and other leaders unleashed in the 1980s and 1990s.
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Immigration is one of a package of issues that fall under the broad category of liberalization — something Steven Pinker, a professor of psychology at Harvard, calls emancipation.
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Slower economic growth, expectation of higher U.S. interest rates and greater uncertainty about the future of China's liberalization all combined to put downward pressure on the yuan.
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Peña sent the bill to the Mexican senate, where the body's president, Roberto Gil Zuarth, praised the move toward liberalization of drug policy but criticized the measure.
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The longstanding conventional wisdom on China — that engagement and investment by America in China would inevitably lead to the country's political liberalization — has simply not proven true.
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The economic liberalization of Uzbekistan under Mr. Mirziyoyev, who took power in 2016 after the death of a longtime dictator, has resulted in greater trade with China.
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Sweeping bills—on economic liberalization, on justice for members of the old regime—are debated in parliament, and power struggles are hashed out in hard-won compromises.
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But the 33-year-old bin Salman, known as MBS, has also promised economic and political liberalization -- and has ended the ban on women driving -- by 2030.
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To some degree, trade liberalization — including those deals that Mr. Trump and Bernie Sanders railed against — has encouraged countries like China to engage in anti-competitive practices.
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The business elite that fueled so much of the country's economic growth are increasingly worried that Beijing won't pursue the liberalization needed to keep the momentum going.
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At the height of the protests it seemed like they could be successful, forcing a government that was already pursuing economic reform to also accept limited political liberalization.
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Dias told reporters that any liberalization of the ethanol trade between Brazil and the U.S. would need to be "gradual" so as to not harm the local industry.
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"The new digital bank licenses mark the next chapter in Singapore's banking liberalization journey," said Tharman Shanmugaratnam, senior minister and chairman of the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS).
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The statement will be celebrated and promoted by the interest groups seeking data liberalization, because support from such powerful block could have global implications sooner than we think.
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Those calling for liberalization use the rhetoric of creating opportunities for the poor — connecting the next billion — which sounds great, but only if we disconnect it from reality.
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As the Republican party repeatedly positioned itself against movements calling for social change — women's rights, gay rights, immigration liberalization — they attracted authoritarian voters who found that change threatening.
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China is, no doubt, a vibrant market economy in many ways, but economic liberalization and the transition to services is necessary to lighten domestic manufacturing's overcapacity and inefficiency.
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" He said Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin continues to engage senior Chinese officials in private, personal discussions "in order to try to bring the focus back to market liberalization.
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In contrast, previous waves of trade liberalization, including the Uruguay Round of the General Agreement on Trade and Tariffs (GATT), focused more on reducing barriers to manufacturing trade.
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With or without Trump, it is undeniable that a deep and broad strain in American society and leadership is skeptical about trade liberalization, multilateralism and binding global norms.
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The government has defended the hike as necessary to end subsidies on fuels through a gradual, year-long price liberalization that will free up resources for social spending.
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Turkish President Tayyip Recep Erdogan has repeatedly warned that Turkey will no longer uphold its side of the agreement if the does not receive the promised visa liberalization.
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MiSK is a component of Saudi Vision 85033, the reform plan that includes a social liberalization program for empowering youth, increasing employment for women, and improving public education.
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Despite losses in most states, opponents of marijuana liberalization efforts said they took some solace from the results, especially in Arizona, where they ran a well-funded campaign.
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Those issues rather than the economy are topping Mexicans' concerns going into the campaign, but the outcome could mark a shift away from decades of gradual economic liberalization.
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A good way to change its image on the world stage would be to push this kind of basic tariff liberalization forward instead of getting in its way.
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It's also evidence that after countries have passed a certain threshold of prosperity and development, peace, political liberalization and greater government accountability are the best safeguards against famine.
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A smart trade policy will start with the education of the next generation of workers, and then seek trade liberalization that can enable those workers to thrive. 7.
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Macri, a scion of one of Argentina's wealthiest families, came to power in 2015 on promises to kick-start Latin America's third-largest economy via a liberalization wave.
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K. FTA should also guarantee the free flow of data, the freedom to locate servers abroad, and the complete liberalization of content for television, movies, and audiovisual services.
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The era of market liberalization that coincided with democratic transition in the 1990s only deepened the culture of institutionalized corruption that had developed around soccer in the Americas.
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But after decades of trade liberalization, Trump's imposition of steep tariffs on Chinese goods have vastly increased the amount in import taxes paid by U.S. consumers and firms.
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Yet while Zhou's comments may indicate the Chinese government's commitment to financial sector liberalization, foreign companies still face a range of restrictions on investment and business in China.
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A scion of one of Argentina's wealthiest families, Macri came to power in 2015 on promises to kick-start Latin America's third-largest economy via a liberalization wave.
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The Bank noted that trade liberalization trends had already been slowing for some time, with the number of new trade agreements hitting an 18-year low in 2017.
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The Mexican government hopes the recent liberalization of its energy industry could help reverse those declines; however, initial production from one of the new projects was light crude.
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The core protest overlaps with difficult negotiations to prepare the SNCF for Europe-wide liberalization of train traffic in 2020 and, at Air France, efforts to reduce costs.
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As a result, presidents have the power to negotiate tariff liberalization with other countries through trade agreements, and they also have power to raise tariffs for various purposes.
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"I'm confident they can manage the economic transition, but they need to accelerate the liberalization of their capital markets and communicate policy better," said Quinlan at U.S. Trust.
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While the common market gives member states greater leverage in negotiations, the European Union "has always used its trade policy to push for greater liberalization," Mr. Dinan said.
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"The Pacific Alliance is a grouping of fast-growing, like-minded economies committed to the liberalization of trade," New Zealand Trade Minister Todd McClay said in a statement.
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Hedging instruments such as bond futures and repos are open only to some foreign investors, said ASIFMA, which has also called for wider liberalization of the derivatives market.
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Past Republican administrations have imposed the rule on foreign organizations receiving American family planning funding, preventing them from discussing abortion with their clients or advocating abortion law liberalization.
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That's an agreement we have made, even years ago in the Dutch parliament, we are prepared to give visa liberalization to Turkey once they meet all the requirements.
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Yenel said that efforts were continuing to find a compromise with the EU on all open issues, including the overhaul of the anti-terror law and visa liberalization.
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The deal, which the ministry said will target a comprehensive liberalization of goods and services trading between the two countries, will also include telecommunications sector and financial services.
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If the 2011 revolutions taught us anything, it is that Arab citizens — specifically Arab youths — want economic opportunity and a certain political liberalization, if not Western-style democracy.
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DUBLIN (Reuters) - The main group opposing the liberalization of Ireland's abortion law conceded on Saturday that it has lost Friday's referendum by an overwhelming margin, a spokesman said.
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Pemex still buys most of the imports from the U.S. Gulf refiners, but private imports are expected to grow in 2017 with further liberalization and improved cross-border infrastructure.
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This is particularly true when markets are undergoing substantial liberalization, integration or technological disruption, since these impose increased human costs in the form of dislocation, insecurity and income dispersion.
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One important factor, they mainly agree, was the opening up of China, Eastern Europe, and other less advanced regions to world trade; another was the liberalization of capital markets.
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It's time for policymakers to abandon the simple strategy of tariff reductions and embrace a new strategy that helps preserve trade liberalization and sustain the benefits of direct investment.
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" YOSHINORI SHIGEMI, GLOBAL MARKETS STRATEGIST, JPMORGAN ASSET, TOKYO: "His comments seem to have covered all the major issues U.S. have raised, including intellectual property and liberalization of domestic markets.
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"It is a sign that policymakers remain committed to financial reform and capital account liberalization," Julian Evans-Pritchard, a China economist at Capital Economics, said in a note Tuesday.
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Some say the delay has ensured that the momentum has now been lost and the most likely outcome is that the liberalization effort is now heading for the shelf.
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In return for more help from Turkey, Brussels is willing to speed up Ankara's long-stalled EU accession talks and help to accelerate visa liberalization for Turks visiting Europe.
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Western countries offer such concessions, primarily because their leaders are convinced that overall, China is moving in the right direction toward freer markets, productive international cooperation and political liberalization.
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As part of his bid to consolidate power, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has explicitly courted support from younger Saudis with promises of social liberalization, jobs and faster change.
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What Pinker misses is the dark side of enlightenment, the bad things that have been bound up with progress and liberalization in the particular historical timeline we all occupy.
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In the era of globalization, the degree of economic liberalization to encourage investment in Africa is more omnipresent than ever, matched only by the rapid expansion of legal development.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads PRAGUE — On August 22, 1968, Soviet troops invaded the city of Prague, ending a period of political liberalization known as the Prague Spring.
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The stakes were high for Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto and his struggling party, which wants to showcase the results of its energy liberalization ahead of the presidential election.
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Not only we will hold historic free and fair parliamentary elections, but we are also looking forward to moving to the next level of European integration with visa liberalization.
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In Europe and the United States, the rapid social change brought about by information technology, automation, and social liberalization has created a sense of anxiety about status and security.
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But if you want to make the case that trade liberalization has been the principal driver of growth, or anything along those lines, well, the models don't say that.
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The passage of marijuana liberalization policies over the past 20 years overlaps with consistent downward trends in rates of violent crime, which have fallen nationwide since the early 1990s.
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Dispossessed Americans are hoping that the president's anti-immigration, anti-globalization and anti-trade liberalization orders will bring back jobs that have largely been lost to innovation and automation.
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Mr. Moon based his sales pitch on the belief that Mr. Kim wants to become the North Korean equivalent of Deng Xiaoping, who oversaw the economic liberalization of China.
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Arguably, given the number of hearings it would add to an already overloaded immigration court system, it wouldn't even work without a much bigger liberalization of the immigration system.
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But Oliver-Ellis said she does not view the country's economic liberalization plan as being far behind efforts in Saudi Arabia, whose larger population prompted a quicker diversification effort.
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Africa needs education, trade liberalization, debt cancellation and strong civic society to help create sound political culture, stable constitutional democracy and transformative servant leadership in religious and political settings.
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The partway-liberalization of the Francis era has encouraged the church's progressives to push further, while many conservatives have been flung into intellectual crisis or a paranoia-flavored traditionalism.
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The government has defended the price increase as necessary to end subsidies on fuels through a gradual, year-long price liberalization that will free up resources for social spending.
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According to Gallup, the shift is also driven by a liberalization in how Americans view a host of social issues, including same-sex marriage and the legalization of marijuana.
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First, a fundamental and distinct aspect of NAFTA is that it involves significant liberalization (almost all tariffs have been eliminated) between neighboring large developed countries and a developing country.
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The new leader has chilled investor sentiment by saying his government will examine more than 100 contracts awarded since liberalization of the oil and gas sector five years ago.
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The Chinese yuan's slide is creating challenging headwinds for Beijing's push to promote its currency globally — a key element in the broader liberalization of the world's second-largest economy.
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Xi has come under fire from some businessmen and analysts for his state-centered approach to economic policy and his focus on stability, rather than proactively pushing market liberalization.
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The 1998 Reformasi movement, which ended Suharto's 32-year dictatorship and brought democratization, didn't just allow for political liberalization; it also opened up a space for Islamic political ideas.
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In the days before economic liberalization brought some measure of prosperity to China's big cities, Shanghai was a sleepier, more insular town, where everyone spoke Shanghainese, rather than Mandarin.
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Americans broadly are actually more positive toward trade liberalization (and wary of protectionism) than the rhetoric from the current president or the progressive firebrands might lead you to believe.
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Mohamed Anwar al-Sadat, whose uncle led a sweeping economic liberalization program and opened ties with Israel before his assassination in 1981, had previously said he was mulling a run.
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But when he became president a year after the end of the Iran-Iraq war, he pushed for liberalization and privatization programs, hoping to boost the country's war-torn economy.
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In a letter sent to European Parliament President Martin Schulz on Tuesday and seen by Reuters, Donald Tusk urged the legislature to compromise with national governments to unblock visa liberalization.
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Despite the strongly worded language, the energy chapter does not prevent foreign oil companies from producing oil in Mexico under a liberalization of the industry passed by the outgoing government.
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Lopez Obrador has already caused concerns with threats to walk back the liberalization of the country's oil and gas business and to scrap a new $13 billion Mexico City airport.
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He also asked to bring forward EU visa liberalization for Turks to June from end-2016 and to open five more negotiating chapters in Turkey's long-stalled EU accession process.
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Earlier on Tuesday, Xi called for the implementation of reforms but offered no new specific measures in a speech that marked the 40th anniversary of China's move towards market liberalization.
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We are the party of (India's economic) liberalization, we are the party that gave the fastest economic growth in the first decade of the century, and will do that again.
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Supplying insurance without such state-backing has proved challenging, however, even as price risk continues to rise due to a variety of factors including commodity market liberalization and climate change.
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Khashoggi was a high-profile critic of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad Bin Salman, whose liberalization of Saudi Arabia has been coupled with a harsh crackdown on dissidents and political rivals.
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That agenda is likely to involve complete data liberalization, tougher rules on the transfer of technology, and even tighter trade secret rules – all of which would disadvantage the global poor.
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Uncertainty remains over the project's final approval as the European Commission is politically opposed to the project and has argued that it falls foul of EU gas market liberalization rules.
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MACRI STRUGGLES Macri, a scion of one of Argentina's wealthiest families, came to power in 2015 on promises to kick-start Latin America's third-largest economy via a liberalization wave.
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The Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) has, since its creation in 85033, been at the vanguard of trade liberalization in the U.S., and therefore in the world.
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JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesia on Thursday opened dozens of sectors to foreign investors in what President Joko Widodo has described as a "Big Bang" liberalization of its economy, Southeast Asia's largest.
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In updating the deal, they should have formal structures for monitoring, preventing, and acting when the side effects of trade liberalization begin to impact our bodies and make us sick.
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Yet for all the gridlock at the federal level and the success of gun liberalization, reasonable gun control has actually made great strides at the state level in recent years.
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Ballot measures allowing recreational pot use in Maine and Massachusetts have been bankrolled by the Marijuana Policy Project and the New Approach PAC, both longtime advocates of the liberalization movement.
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"Whether interest rates will be lowered further or need to be raised again will depend on economic developments and on the success of the capital account liberalization process," it wrote.
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This would send a positive message to the international community and a stern warning to North Korea that liberalization and other domestic reforms are needed to resolve the refugee crisis.
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Notably, once a state enacts a basic law for right to carry—as all but a few already have—there is typically a one-way ratchet towards further carry liberalization.
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To be sure, he has made a lot of enemies, within the royal family and among the religious elements, with his liberalization measures, such as allowing women to drive, finally.
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Throw in the events and changes China has experienced in recent decades, and the collective experience of the Cultural Revolution has become less of a force for promoting China's liberalization.
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"We are interested in making more grid acquisitions in Brazil if opportunities arise from market liberalization," De Paoli told Reuters in a phone interview after the group's first quarter results.
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The reform-minded in Tehran are energized, but their strategists talk of making the economy a priority and taming the extreme hard-liners, rather than pursuing social or political liberalization.
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Throughout the election campaign, Trump threatened China and Mexico with punitive tariffs that some economists have warned could spark a trade war that could potentially roll back decades of liberalization.
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The Marijuana Policy Project, the nation's leading organization supporting liberalization of cannabis laws, likewise projected passage of measures permitting medical use of marijuana in Florida, Arkansas, North Dakota and Montana.
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He is a former investment banker who oversaw liberalization of Sunday shop opening and bus transport but has yet to produce an official presidential election program to be judged by.
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"I don't know who is still fooling themselves about convergence and liberalization — Xi put an end to that long ago," François Godement, a China scholar at Sciences Po in Paris.
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Macri, a wealthy former businessman, came to power in 2015 on promises to kick-start Latin America's third-largest economy via a liberalization drive after 12 years of interventionist rule.
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DUBLIN — An Irish parliamentary committee on Wednesday recommended that a constitutional ban on abortion be repealed, paving the way for the liberalization of one of the world's strictest abortion laws.
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Ethiopia is relying on state-driven development rather than the Western-style liberalization that in the 1980s and 1990s hurt many economies across Africa, like Ghana and the Ivory Coast.
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For decades, there have been fitful negotiations between Washington and Brussels on trade liberalization, but they have always run up against the protectionism of France and some southern European states.
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Since he began consolidating power in 2015, he has marketed himself to domestic and international audiences as a force of modernity, touting an agenda of cultural liberalization and economic reform.
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Government-set fuel prices in Mexico rose between 14 percent and 20 percent ahead of a gradual, year-long price liberalization the Pena Nieto administration promised to implement this year.
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Opinion polls show that while there is public support for medical marijuana use, Mexicans are still resistant to the idea of an outright liberalization of the drug for recreational ends.
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The Republican Party platform in 22019, for example, called for weaker Wall Street, environmental, and worker safety regulations; lower taxes for corporations and wealthy individuals; and further liberalization of trade.
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Immigration — not trade liberalization or the elimination of barriers to capital flows — offers the best shot at raising the incomes of the poor and increasing economic output around the world.
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Putin also hinted at political liberalization — a claim on which observers are highly skeptical, particularly given that recent months have seen hundreds detained and arrested in opposition protests and rallies.
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The Fund speculates that a slowdown in trade liberalization, an upsurge in antidumping and the proliferation of more subtle non-tariff barriers could help explain the extra slowdown in trade growth.
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Abubakar's campaign has sought to focus on free-market principles that saw him put in place a program of liberalization in areas including the telecoms sector when he was vice president.
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Cracks have also emerged in the SPD in recent weeks over its Russia policy and welfare reform, more than a decade after the party spearheaded Germany's liberalization of the labor market.
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EU leaders agreed last week to cooperate with the United States on trade issues including market liberalization as long as Washington did not impose import tariffs on EU steel and aluminum.
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But the intermingling of the US and Chinese economies that was supposed to generate liberalization in China instead seems to be leading to the erasure of Tibet from American cultural products.
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"While we're expecting full support from Germany on issues such as the migrant deal, visa liberalization and Turkey's full EU membership, the exact opposite is happening," a senior government official said.
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She's backed off of the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal, but she and her economic team are still firm believers in the value of trade liberalization, and Brown really, really isn't.
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His successor as president, Shavkat Mirziyoyev, was elected in December 2016 and has gradually moved the country toward liberalization, freeing some political prisoners and easing rigid state controls over the economy.
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"The country lags far behind in terms of liberalization of the [telecommunications] sector," said Lishan Adam, a consultant who has worked with the World Bank on information and communications tech policy.
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Under the draft deal struck on Monday, Turkey also received promises of faster visa liberalization for Turks traveling to Europe, and a speeding up of Ankara's long-stalled EU membership talks.
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But even if this is the case, it's more likely that ongoing liberalization of fuel exports will result in higher quotas and therefore encourage China's refiners to export more middle distillates.
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But hardliners, wary of Rouhani's growing influence and popularity, have already taken off the gloves to display the limits of the president's power at home where they oppose any political liberalization.
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"Trade liberalization and market openness continue to march ahead in Asia-Pacific," said Ajay Sharma, the regional head of global trade and receivables finance at banking and financial services provider HSBC.
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One of the most fascinating and terrifying chapters in Democracy in Chains investigates Buchanan's role in Chile, where Buchanan and Friedman pushed economic liberalization and extreme constitutional protections for the wealthy.
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Backers of marijuana liberalization efforts said the results on Tuesday will likely lead to new efforts to legalize pot in several other states, both through popular initiatives and through state legislatures.
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The CoE's discussions with Ankara are separate from Turkey's visa liberalization talks with the 28-member EU, but could help Ankara better understand which laws it needs to revise, he said.
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" The government responded by calling the article "selectively leaked quotes" that are "designed to give a completely false impression that the U.K. is considering granting visa liberalization to some Turkish citizens.
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His column outlined the dangers of not comprehending China's ideological motivation for building ports and roads, arguing the West had wrongly calculated that economic liberalization in China would lead to democratization.
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Meanwhile, economic liberals are beginning to use the Trump tariffs as an excuse to push for greater liberalization of China's economy, contrary to Xi's desire for greater state and party control.
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Rather than using it as an opportunity to pivot in the direction of a new great leap forward in liberalization, he vociferously defended the China model and Chinese Communist Party rule.
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Public support for Chamber initiatives like trade deals are greater when workers have a safety net to support them through the dislocations that come with liberalization, helping achieve goals for both.
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They're thinking of economic liberalization as an unstoppable, magical force transcending politics—which has repeatedly been the mistake people make when assuming North Korea is forever on the brink of change.
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One possible idea is for China to implement market-opening measures it has already stated its intention to undertake, such as liberalization of its financial sector, albeit on an accelerated schedule.
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S. TPP countries later this month to discuss a deal without the U.S. "Japan is showing quite a bit of leadership on trade liberalization," Bollard told CNBC's "The Rundown " on Thursday.
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However, Japan needs to avoid the problems that beset Germany's liberalization, particularly a collapse in wholesale power prices due to a flood of subsidized green energy that gutted its big utilities.
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The Commission did not say how many of the 72 benchmarks for visa liberalization Turkey has yet to complete but it pointed to several areas where work remains to be done.
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Older people's increased use has less to do with the liberalization of pot policies across states (despite Attorney General Jeff Sessions' best efforts) and more to do with a generational trend.
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Although still significantly more skeptical than Democrats, polling data has shown growing support from Republican voters for marijuana liberalization (with some polls even showing narrow majority support), particularly among younger voters.
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Where he's wrong is in suggesting that this is just a right-wing Catholic phenomenon, and that it's just an unfortunate, internet-abetted byproduct of Pope Francis's attempted liberalization and decentralization.
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Government-set fuel prices in Mexico jumped by between 14 and 20 percent ahead of a gradual, year-long price liberalization the Pena Nieto administration has promised to implement this year.
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As he gears up for his second term, hoped-for market liberalization is increasingly being viewed as secondary to Xi's state-centered approach to economic policy and his focus on stability.
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And there are indications that Mr. Maduro's government wants to take the underhand liberalization further, even rolling back the watershed nationalization of the oil industry that took place in the 1970s.
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Early that same year, Mr. Passer had left his homeland for good, the Soviet-led invasion of 1968 having squelched the liberalization and artistic flowering of Czechoslovakia earlier in the decade.
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Even if there were occasional setbacks, many believed expanding market forces and a growing middle class would shape history in their direction and would make the government ultimately accept political liberalization.
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The stakes were high for Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto and his struggling party, which wants to showcase the results of its energy liberalization ahead of a presidential election in July.
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But volumes under the long-term contract have been declining as utilities try to diversify supply sources and trade more in the spot market as part of Japan's energy market liberalization.
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Confounding all of the progress in the liberalization of marijuana laws is that the drug is still, somehow, illegal under federal law, where it's currently classified as a schedule one substance.
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His government has lately avoided flagrant human rights violations, and around Minsk, dissidents speak of a "liberalization period" — though journalists say uncensored political reporting is as hard to produce as ever.
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According to Adam's book, the liberalization of certain economies, including China's, India's, and those of several countries in Eastern Europe, led to an art collection boom outside the US and Western Europe.
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As a result, the Fund urges policymakers to resist protectionism, revive trade liberalization and dismantle remaining non-tariff barriers to support global trade and a new round of global value chain development.
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"It's so important for our business that the liberalization that spreads through from the Clinton era of politics on global trade continues," Emirates President Tim Clark told reporters in Dubai on Oct.
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Opinion polls show a majority of voters back a reform which Macron says is key to SNCF survival when EU-wide liberalization ends its monopoly of domestic passenger rail from end-2020.
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China sentenced Liu Xiaobo in December 2009 to 11 years&apos imprisonment on charges of inciting subversion of state power after he helped write a manifesto calling for political and economic liberalization.
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" In Beijing, Chinese foreign ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said, "Under the current circumstances, who is sincerely and vigorously promoting the liberalization of trade and investment and who is engaged in trade protectionism?
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Turkey's foreign ministry spokesman Tanju Bilgic said on Monday that Ankara would develop the "necessary policies" on visa liberalization with the EU and would implement them in line with Erdogan's recent statements.
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"If the authorities take the new board's price swings in their stride, it will bode well for the long term liberalization of China's stock markets," Thomas Gatley, analyst at Gavekal Dragonomics, wrote.
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"At the moment there is no clear definition of what the country is going to do or what we Mexicans want," he said both of marijuana and wider liberalization of drug policy.
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The initiative would work to ensure an open world economy, rebalance globalization and work toward trade liberalization, he said, adding that it would also boost support for green and low-carbon development.
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MEXICO CITY, Aug 29 (Reuters) - Mexico's government will next week propose that Congress bring forward one year, to January 2017, the planned liberalization of gasoline prices, the finance ministry said on Monday.
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Economic liberalization in the 90s opened up the Malawian tobacco market to international companies, which have since exploited the country and its farmers for low production costs and tariffs on unmanufactured tobacco.
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And for anyone watching these debates from the outside, from a secular perspective, this feels like a familiar story — where you have liberalization, resistance, the resistance is overcome, the institution moves on.
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"With this liberalization, we would expect again some manufacturing activity in defense products to come in," Shaktikanta Das, secretary of economic affairs at the Ministry of Finance, told reporters in New Delhi.
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The United States wants China to adopt further financial liberalization, address industrial overcapacity at home and refrain from any devaluation of the renminbi that is aimed at seeking an advantage in trade.
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Swisscom, in which the state owns a 51 percent stake, had said a "yes" vote would put an end to the liberalization of the telecommunications market and lead to insecurity among investors.
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It may also allow Mirziyoyev to push through economic and administrative reforms more quickly - diplomatic sources have told Reuters that Inoyatov's resistance had been slowing down moves such as foreign exchange liberalization.
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Facing slowing growth and weakening confidence in its economy, China has demonstrated flexibility and openness toward further trade talks and has emphasized its continuous support for multilateral institutions and further economic liberalization.
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Globalization and economic liberalization have produced winners and losers — and the big "Leave" vote in economically stagnant regions of Britain suggests that many of those who have lost out are fed up.
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The government agreed to the air traffic liberalization deal under pressure from international donors who want the government to modernize the economy, beef up the private sector and revamp inefficient state firms.
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"It's not a question of number, it's how quickly the process is going on," he said, while repeating the Commission's position that there could be no liberalization until all conditions were fulfilled.
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"What we're seeing now is a pretty decisive turn away from Western-style market liberalization," said Andrew Gilholm, director of analysis for China and North Asia at Control Risks, a consulting firm.
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In April 203, he went to a Polish enclave in Michigan to salute the Polish government for its political liberalization, including providing for the labor union Solidarity to regain its legal status.
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For journalists trying to tell the stories of the Solidarity movement — a free trade union that transformed into a mass movement for liberalization in Poland — the stakes were high and extremely risky.
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One answer suggested by The Times's series is that Beijing has ignored orthodox economic nostrums about the need for ever-greater market liberalization and fewer state controls while still managing to thrive.
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Economic liberalization (globalization, technology, market deregulation) coupled with social norms that clung to the past meant 31% of America (white males) were given license over a lion&aposs share of the spoils.
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But even if he keeps his seat at the table, Xi still remains under the spotlight as he tackles challenging obstacles such as financial market liberalization and highly leveraged state-owned enterprises.
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After the introduction of economic liberalization policies known in Vietnam as "Doi Moi" in 1986, Mr. Crawford wrote, cars and motorbikes replaced bicycles, and neon lights took the place of oil lamps.
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Because Morocco's leaders, particularly King Mohammed VI, envisioned a constitutional monarchy and parliamentary democracy, the country has been on a careful, steady course to political and social liberalization for almost 20 years.
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SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Indonesian President Joko Widodo on Wednesday pledged further steps to open Southeast Asia's largest economy to foreign investment after announcing the most significant liberalization in a decade last week.
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A spokesman at Osaka Gas said the company's decision reflected concerns over tighter regulations on coal power stations after 2030 and intensifying competition after the liberalization of the power market in Japan.
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A day after the protest, Imre Nagy, a Communist with an independent streak, was appointed prime minister by the party, giving many Hungarians hope that a new period of liberalization was beginning.
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As for when exactly commuters will be able to regularly take to the skies in a GrabHeli, Tan said that would depend on liberalization of aviation regulations and demand from Grab users.
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Lopez Obrador has committed himself to strengthening the state's role in the energy sector, arguing that past market liberalization and privatization of other industries deepened chronic inequality in Mexico and encouraged corruption.
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Chinese President Xi Jinping said APEC members needed to remain true to the group's founding purposes, which included advancing trade, liberalization and strengthening the multilateral trade regime, China's Xinhua news agency said.
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"There is ongoing debate over what model makes sense — the U.S. model or the Singapore model of financial market liberalization with stable one-party government," the Singapore-based investor told CNBC on Wednesday.
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Essebsi has said the country needs a more dynamic government ready to take audacious decisions to bring about the liberalization and cost-cutting required for an overhaul of the North African state's economy.
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BERLIN (Reuters) - German Chancellor Angela Merkel's trip to China this week is a good opportunity to press the Chinese to deliver on promises of trade liberalization, European Commission Vice-President Jyrki Katainen said.
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On top of that, amid the South Asian country's's legacy of poorly negotiated trade deals and uneven economic liberalization, "the likelihood of India taking full advantage of these opportunities remains slim," Jaishankar said.
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The CGT, another influential union but one which is opposed to EU-wide liberalization in principle, said it saw no reason for now to call off a strike that began in early April.
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In December the Commission proposed introducing an exception to the duration limit on wet-leasing deals if negotiated in an international agreement, to pave the way for a liberalization with the United States.
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Frans Timmermans said on Twitter after talks with Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu and EU Affairs Minister Omer Celik that they shared a "joint determination to overcome last remaining obstacles to visa liberalization".
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Besides its strong support for new LNG and pipeline infrastructure, including Gazprom's, Turkey remains committed to gas market liberalization in the hopes of attracting more trade activity by launching spot day-ahead pricing.
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An ecumenical, liberal coalition of anti-abortion allies began to share fetal photographs, abortion videos and the tales of horrified nurses with legislators, and even some who had supported liberalization changed their minds.
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This week, at a WTO Ministerial Summit in Argentina, the host and a group of major developed and developing countries aligned with Big Tech's vision attempted to push the data liberalization agenda forward.
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I think a second difference is that liberal internationalism included the promotion of neoliberal economics, deregulation, privatization, liberalization, austerity, and this happened through in the '90s — what was generally called the Washington Consensus.
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Berlin may also be weighing the issue of Turkey, which does not meet visa-liberalization criteria but has named relaxed travel rules with Europe as its price for curbing the flow of migrants.
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The group is attempting to make a splash the way it did when it helped push successfully for DC's pot liberalization and later launched a pot giveaway during President Donald Trump's inauguration weekend.
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I encourage what His Royal Highness has done in terms of women liberalization, in terms of allowing music and singing and young people to have a normal life like everywhere in the world.
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He has since freed several prominent political prisoners, ordered thousands of people taken off a state security black list and introduced some economic reforms such as the liberalization of the foreign exchange market.
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Brussels said on Thursday it would assign 1 billion euros in aid for refugees living in Turkey by the end of July, speeding up the disbursement of funds promised along with visa liberalization.
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Re-writing existing deals or setting up new structures will likely result in a wave of arbitration and regulatory rulings, as happened in Europe after electricity market liberalization over the past two decades.
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China is challenging the liberal order by building islands in the South China Sea (as a display of force) and by eliminating term limits on President Xi Jinping (thus forestalling any political liberalization).
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Bahrain is well positioned to benefit from an expected trade boost brought about by the liberalization and economic growth of Saudi Arabia, the country's minister for industry, commerce and tourism told CNBC Thursday.
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The CGT and smaller labor and student unions which have been protesting since March against the labor law liberalization said they had proposals to make and wanted President Francois Hollande to meet them.
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Many of the problems at Pemex Fertilizers, a subsidiary created under Pena Nieto's liberalization of the energy sector, stem from its purchase of two fertilizer plants in 2013 and 2016, the report said.
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America was an architect of trade liberalization, championing the founding of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade shortly after World War II. Eight successful rounds of GATT negotiations greatly reduced tariffs worldwide.
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For decades, US policy on China has been premised on drawing the rising giant into a rules-based international system, on the basis that greater economic opening would inevitably lead to political liberalization.
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The report found that a deceleration in trade liberalization and an uptick in protectionist policies has contributed to the slowdown in global trade since 2008, which, in turn has weighed on global growth.
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Despite pledging continuity, Mirziyoyev has announced plans for economic reforms, including a liberalization of the tightly controlled foreign exchange market, and has acted to ease strains in relations with neighboring Central Asian countries.
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"I don't feel too optimistic — the measures that they're proposing aren't very vigorous," said Mao Yushi, the honorary president of the Unirule Institute of Economics, a group in Beijing that backs market liberalization.
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Kudlow, the director of the National Economic Council, said he was expecting some trade and market liberalization actions by China immediately as the two countries launch trade negotiations over the next 90 days.
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In a recent panel discussion in Sri Lanka, a top economic advisor from India cited the NAFTA re-negotiation as evidence of American retrenchment and as justification for India shelving further trade liberalization.
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That's the takeaway from Berst's email, and it's enough to make you wonder if the NCAA's new era of supposed liberalization is just a way to sweep its core exploitation under the rug.
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It's now very clear that globalization, technology and market liberalization did not bring their promised benefits — at least not for the vast majority of Americans and those in advanced countries around the world.
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Mr. Trump will be arriving as he faces new questions about the Russia investigation at home and criticism abroad for appearing to abandon American leadership on issues from climate change to trade liberalization.
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Conversely, studies have found that the liberalization of divorce laws has led to lower rates of suicide by women, less reported domestic violence and fewer instances of women being murdered by their spouses.
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The tariff war is a sign the post-war project of trade liberalization is in deep trouble and the impact could linger even if the United States and China can negotiate a truce.
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That strategy worked for Trump because the past half-century of economic liberalization around the world has created so much wealth in the world, and so many new customers, especially in developing countries.
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After what some analysts are describing as the boldest financial measure taken since the economic liberalization of 1991, those notes will be replaced by new 500 and 2,000 rupee bank notes starting on Thursday.
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"We hope the British side can take actual steps to promote trade and investment liberalization and convenience, and take actual steps to oppose any form of trade and investment protectionism," he added, without elaborating.
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The Mexican peso gained nearly 2 percent in Monday morning trade, on the setback for Lopez Obrador, a sign of ongoing market distrust of the combative leader who has opposed economic liberalization in Mexico.
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"It is especially important to enhance the multilateral system of open and free trade and investment, jointly resist protectionism, and accelerate the liberalization of global trade and investment," he said in his IMFC speech.
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The talks indicate Australia's traditional media owners are wasting little time capitalizing on the liberalization of ownership laws to explore deals designed to expand their audience reach and compete harder against new foreign rivals.
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He has long been a critic of his predecessor's liberalization of the energy industry, which allowed private and foreign companies to bid for oil exploration and production both alone and in association with Pemex.
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Finally resigning as Hollande's minister of the economy in late August, after having been one of the primary advocates for the government's string of liberalization reforms, he has yet to formally announce his candidacy.
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"We can choose between a low road of protectionism focused on bilateral goods-trade balances and a high road of liberalization of global trade in services," he said in an interview conducted last month.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - China's banking regulator said on Friday that it has issued draft guidelines for commercial banks to better manage their interest rate risks, as China pushes forward with its interest rate liberalization reform.
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But beyond rhetoric, the government is mostly powerless to force the hands of gas station owners as its ability to set prices ended in late November after it finalized a gradual, nationwide fuel liberalization.
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They say such deals put the rights of big business ahead of citizens' and workers' rights and focus on deregulation, including financial service liberalization, jeopardizing safety and quality standards for the environment and consumers.
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The Soviet Union has long since ceased to exist, and China, now the United States' third largest trading partner, underwent an economic liberalization that has lifted hundreds of millions of people out of poverty.
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Adelson, a long-time foe of marijuana liberalization laws, has contributed $2628 million to the opposition campaign in Nevada; $28500,6900 to the cause in Arizona; $2628 million in Massachusetts; and $28503 million in Florida.
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At Trump's first G-7 summit, last year in Sicily, the president repudiated longstanding U.S. support for trade liberalization and hinted he would leave the Paris climate agreement, which he did the following month.
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Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar, 39, the country's first openly gay leader, has said he would campaign for a liberalization of the country's restrictive abortion laws ahead of a referendum in the coming months.
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Rouhani's rivals - notably in the powerful Shi'ite clergy and security services including the Revolutionary Guards - oppose any political liberalization at home and normalizing ties with the West, fearing it may weaken their longtime dominance.
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But in any future trade liberalization — including the Obama administration's pending Trans-Pacific Partnership deal, if it is to go forward at all — policy makers must be much more careful about managing the costs.
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But there is no sign as yet that Francis's liberalization is bringing his lapsed-Catholic admirers back to the pews; from Germany to Australia to his native Latin America, the church's institutional decline continues.
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But instead of instigating liberalization, Western capital fattened the pockets of the Communist Party leaders, giving them the power to prolong their rule by silencing dissent at home and expanding the country's global clout.
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Economic liberalization, which began in 1960s, drew women into the work force, shrinking the size of Ireland's traditionally large families and creating pressure for the legalization of contraception, which was anathema to the church.
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Macri, a scion of one of Argentina's wealthiest families, came to power in 2015 on promises to kick-start Latin America's third-largest economy via a liberalization wave after 12 years of interventionist rule.
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"We have to find a middle point that does not damage our economies with extreme liberalization," Mexico Economy Minister Ildefonso Guajardo said at the conclusion of NAFTA talks in Mexico City early this month.
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"We are watching Ethiopia closely because as we see the liberalization of the markets, both the mobile payments market, the telecoms market and the banking sector, we think there could be opportunities," he said.
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But with no access to capital, and no family living abroad to send back money, 54-year-old Perez said he and other black Cubans are being excluded from the benefits of economic liberalization.
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Since 2000, the manufacturing sector has lost 4.4 million jobs, according to the BLS, which cites trade liberalization, productivity gains and technological advances -- the use of automation and robots -- as reasons for the loss.
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This urgent work, by the foremost champion of "progressive capitalism," starts from the premise that Donald Trump's Presidency reflects a deeper malaise—rising inequality caused by mismanaged globalization, financial liberalization, and destabilizing technological change.
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A set of economic challenges that year — the stock market tumble in June, a currency devaluation two months later and a significant and unexpected slowing of economic growth — dampened the appetite for economic liberalization.
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Inside, the sight of the Milanese, a generally reserved lot, whooping it up on the dance floor on a weeknight is as unexpected as the designer's liberalization of men's tailoring was in the '80s.
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But with the liberalization of the political regime, and with the material enrichment of society and the expansion of the middle class, things had begun to change radically by the end of the '70s.
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As head of the insurance regulator, Xiang oversaw rapid growth of the insurance industry, along with liberalization of investment rules that provided insurers greater latitude to invest more of their assets at home and overseas.
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Xi, who is gearing up for his second five-year term, has also come under fire for his state-centred approach to economic policy and his focus on stability, rather than proactively pushing market liberalization.
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The rules of the game Trade liberalization would have made it easier for manufacturers to sell goods abroad and given domestic markets greater access to foreign goods, saving each country billions in tariffs and duties.
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Omar Al Mohammedy, CEO of Fawaz Alhokair Group, spoke to CNBC about the IPO the week prior and emphasized the importance of Saudi Arabia's social and economic liberalization plans to the expansion of his business.
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The historic vote comes amid a wave of liberalization in recent years, with the country voting to allow same-sex marriage three years ago and Ireland's first openly gay prime minister taking office last year.
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Malpass told an Institute of International Finance forum in Buenos Aires that countries were increasingly concerned by Beijing's move away from market liberalization, its reliance on state subsidies and its use of restrictive investment policies.
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BAD BUSINESS Many of the problems at Pemex Fertilizers, a subsidiary created under Pena Nieto's liberalization of the energy sector, stem from its purchase of two fertilizer plants in 2013 and 2016, the report said.
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Lopez Obrador has long been a critic of his predecessor's liberalization of the energy industry, which allowed private and foreign companies to bid for oil exploration and production both alone and in association with Pemex.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump's rollback on his predecessor's liberalization of travel to Cuba will all but eliminate a burgeoning market for independent tourism, forcing would-be visitors into organized trips, experts said.
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Germany can work with the U.S. on energy liberalization — increasing U.S. gas exports to Europe that will support European energy security and competitiveness while, at the same time, helping correct the U.S.-German trade imbalance.
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"The issue there is that Canada's dairy market is heavily protected, and there has been very little interest in opening it, although there would have been some liberalization in the Trans-Pacific Partnership," Ikenson said.
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And while the President is likely to hail liberalization of American oil and natural gas exports as a masterstroke, he is less likely to say that it reflects policies belatedly implemented by the last administration.
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With the liberalization of medical marijuana laws in the United States, it is becoming easier for adolescents to participate in persistent, daily use of marijuana, according to a commentary also published in JAMA Internal Medicine.
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"More efforts need to be made in interest rate liberalization, as only by reducing controls on loan pricing through both obvious and non-obvious ways can we better reflect real demand and risks," Hu said.
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Lopez Obrador holds a double-digit lead in most opinion polls, and his criticism of the economic liberalization carried out under President Enrique Pena Nieto has caused concern among influential sections of the business community.
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The Irish Times in an editorial about the poll said that while there had been a striking move towards liberalization of abortion in the past year, the referendum result was far from a foregone conclusion.
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But while rail liberalization is obligatory under European Union rules, Macron's reform of the SNCF last year was aimed at ending the job-for-life contracts of its workers, but not at privatizing French rail.
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"We find that there is a high correlation between GDP/capita and a small number of indicators, categorized as: Human capital, institutional & regulatory environment, trade liberalization and financial system development," Harrison told CNBC via email.
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Even before the announcement of the merger last November, the industry had faced criticism as household bills doubled over the past decade despite years of market liberalization that was meant to make energy more affordable.
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Such a moment, experts say, could offer Xi an opportunity to lay out a clear vision for a new wave of liberalization on his own terms based on the country's own needs and political schedule.
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Hoping Jobs for India Follow, Modi Clears Investors' Path | The changes are the most significant loosening of market restrictions since India began economic liberalization, with foreigners now permitted to own 100 percent of many companies.
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M-Pesa's move also suggests Kenyan businesses, from telecoms to banking to farming, are well placed to take advantage of a wave of political and economic liberalization unleashed in the last three months by Abiy.
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Under U.S. leadership, an era of trade liberalization began and grew, first among the developed nations and more recently among less developed countries (particularly in Asia, but now with shoots in Latin America and Africa).
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Looking back beyond the FTA's ratification is also instructive: Let's recall the period 15 years ago when policymakers in Washington decided to include Bahrain among our priorities for the next round of trade liberalization negotiations.
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Arturo López Levy, a lecturer at the University of Texas who for years worked for Cuban intelligence, said the slow rate of economic liberalization signaled a victory by the party's powerful conservatives over its reformers.
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Further delays in doing that are likely only to repress growth, deepen the malaise and hurt workers, said Sheng Hong, the executive director of the Unirule Institute of Economics in Beijing, which advocates economic liberalization.
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China's Foreign Ministry later cited Li as telling Turnbull that China will continue to open up and work with Australia to send "positive signals" about promoting trade liberalization and protecting the current global trading system.
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But "Collected Works" will add nuance to understanding his time, and they vividly show an abiding problem for Chinese leaders, even today: how to square economic liberalization with the ideological underpinnings of Communist Party power.
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A little over a week later, Soros's team reached out again to Nuland, this time seeking to discuss "EU visa liberalization for Ukraine and Georgia" after meeting in Brussels with a top European Union official.
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To that end, her book is divided into five sections, covering everything from the use of clothes in portraiture, including artists' self-portraiture, to depictions of national identity and the drives for modernization and liberalization.
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" Among them, he said, was underestimating the effect of trade liberalization on a significant number of blue-collar workers and "the speed and ferocity with which technology would decimate certain sectors of the American workforce.
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SYDNEY, Australia — The Australian government strongly rebuked Beijing on Friday for detaining one of its citizens, a writer who has called for liberalization in China, expressing concern over his welfare and calling for his release.
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Lopez Obrador's decision to cancel a partly built, $13 billion new airport for Mexico City, and his retreat from the prior government's liberalization of the oil and gas industry stirred concern about his economic stewardship.
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Lopez Obrador's decision to cancel a partly built, $13 billion new airport for Mexico City, and his retreat from the prior government's liberalization of the oil and gas industry stirred concern about his economic stewardship.
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Some Taiwanese believed supporting economic liberalization with China was a way of promoting unification, while supporting economic restriction with China was equivalent to preserving a separate Taiwan, whether that be simply autonomy or outright independence.
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He said no final demand for a schedule had yet been given by Turkey, but that if visa liberalization is not implemented by the end of the year it would have "reached its natural death".
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"Despite the distortions generated by this increase, the gasoline price liberalization is part of the country's efforts to incentivize the free market, even though it would have been better to do it gradually," Banorte said.
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The Independence Party has been part of every government between 103 and 2009 and again from 2013, presided over the privatization of the banks, the financial sector's liberalization and demise, and eventual the economic recovery.
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Work by MIT's David Autor and co-authors illustrated the pernicious effects of trade liberalization with China on American manufacturing, playing into the sense of despair and resulting opioid addiction that has wracked industrial communities.
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What it means: China's A shares also have gotten a big boost from the country's deregulation and market liberalization initiatives, the Chinese government's stimulus measures and particularly from increased weighting in MSCI's emerging markets index.
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Tommy Xie, head of Greater China research at OCBC Bank in Singapore said the move is a "half step" towards interest rate liberalization, and the link to the medium-term lending rate may only be temporary.
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ROSTOCK, Germany (Reuters) - Europe will not be blackmailed by Turkey in talks on visa liberalization, German Vice Chancellor Sigmar Gabriel said on Monday as relations with Ankara are strained in the aftermath of a failed coup.
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That price is now past due in the form of committing to real market liberalization measures: But U.S. negotiators should never forget that a merely functioning relationship between the world's two largest economies produces astounding benefits.
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Chinese leader Xi Jinping opened one of the world's longest bridges on Tuesday, during a tour to southern China that is seen by some as an opportunity for Beijing to reaffirm its commitment to economic liberalization.
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As Britain grapples with a depreciating pound sterling in a post-Brexit era and India continues to grow rapidly since its economic liberalization in 1991, the two have swapped spots in the rankings of world economies.
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It comes one year after the U.S. analytics firm told Beijing further liberalization was needed before acceptance, pointing to factors such as the country's investment quota system that doesn't provide equal access to all money managers.
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Lopez Obrador's comments, which he reiterated late on Thursday, fueled criticism from business leaders already critical of his proposals to review the liberalization of the energy industry and to cancel Mexico City's $13 billion airport project.
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CARACAS (Reuters) - At least half a dozen Venezuelan banks have begun storing in vaults millions of dollars and euros accumulated in cash by businesses during an unexpected economic liberalization by President Nicolas Maduro, according to sources.
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Though the government has pledged to partially privatize several key state-owned companies, including the telecoms monopoly, the form liberalization will take and the speed with which it will be carried out have not been announced.
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Premier Nguyen Tan Dung, widely credited with driving a recent wave of economic liberalization, has been omitted from nominations for key leadership posts to be agreed at the week-long meeting, several party sources told Reuters.
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But Cathcart said that progress on economic liberalization would likely be slow because North Korea will want to be careful about the increased political risks that could come from relaxing restrictions on the currency and migration.
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The settlement of the dispute at the WTO, which began in 210, was facilitated by a liberalization of trade under the EU/Canada Comprehensive Economic and Free Trade Agreement (CETA) which came into force on Sept.
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"We are concerned that China's economic liberalization seems to have slowed or reversed, with the role of the state increasing" David Malpass, U.S. Treasury undersecretary for international affairs, told an event in New York on Thursday.
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The committee voted 44 in favor versus five against for the Georgian liberalization, although the decision must still be approved in the so-called 'trilogue' negotiations between the parliament, EU states and the executive European Commission.
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"We fixed criteria for visa liberalization, there are 72 of them and number 65 says that the Turkish government must review the anti-terror law," Juncker told a conference on Europe at the German foreign ministry.
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China will also continue to promote trade and investment liberalization and facilitation, Li told Singapore's Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong at a meeting in the Chinese capital, it said in the statement released late on Sunday.
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RABAT (Reuters) - Morocco's surprise delay in announcing its proposed currency liberalization came only because the government needed "further studies" of the plan, Prime Minister Saadeddine El Othmani said, dismissing speculation that it ran into significant problems.
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TOKYO (Reuters) - Forced into action by falling customers due to market liberalization and a shrinking population, Japan's utilities are ditching old long-term coal and gas supply contracts in favor of more short-term, opportunistic trading.
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Bangkok-based law firm Tilleke & Gibbins said in a note last week that the move is a significant reform for Thailand's life insurance industry, following liberalization of the country's non-life insurance sector in recent years.
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He supports a more unilateral approach to many foreign policy questions and he sees himself as a deal-maker who isn't tied to the free trade and political liberalization orthodoxy of the post-Cold War period.
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While the events of 1989 redefined Europe's boundaries, they also ushered in almost two decades of powerful economic liberalization and globalisation that took in China, India and Latin America - a wave that is only now cresting.
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No candidate for prime minister since economic liberalization began in 1991 had bothered to explain the global economy to the average Indian voter, to connect the dots in its supply chain, to speak of its possibilities.
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"You're pursuing trade and liberalization agreements at the E.U. level, and then leaving to the individual member countries how to deal with the damage," said Andrew Lang, a law professor at the London School of Economics.
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When doomsday predictions about right to carry do not come true, states that have liberalized their laws look at their own experience, and the experience of other states, and decide that further liberalization is in order.
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Trump's successful deployment of the issue of immigration to mobilize voters raises this question: Why is his opposition to immigrants and Mexicans in particular so resonant when immigration liberalization ostensibly has majority support in most polls?
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Before the liberalization of South Korean media in the late '80s, the music produced by broadcast networks was primarily either slow ballads or "trot," a Lawrence Welk-ish fusion of traditional music with old pop standards.
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Naturgy said in a statement that "supports the market liberalization" but separately on Monday filed a motion to contest a proposed energy reform in Rio de Janeiro state where the Spanish company owns a gas distributor.
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Mr. Xi is using his formidable power to dismantle parts of the political order set in place in the 1980s and 1990s by Deng Xiaoping, who led China on a path of economic opening and liberalization.
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As the government's public face during the tumultuous late 1980s, Mr. Yuan had to navigate the leaders' shifting and divided positions as students and intellectuals mobilized to demand political liberalization and an end to official corruption.
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Lopez Obrador's decision to cancel a partly built, $13 billion new airport for Mexico City, and his retreat from the prior government's liberalization of the oil and gas industry, have stirred concern about his economic stewardship.
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Traveling across India for a book on small towns, three years after India's economic liberalization started in 1991, I was astonished by how quickly self-perceptions were changing among many middle-class and upper-caste Indians.
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"The potential of marijuana liberalization to reduce the use and consequences of prescription opioids among Medicaid enrollees deserves consideration during the policy discussions about marijuana reform and the opioid epidemic," the authors of the study wrote.
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Singapore's biggest liberalization of its banking sector in two decades seeks to enable online-only banks that can operate at lower costs and therefore offer different services than those of incumbents including DBS Group and OCBC.
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Hawali rose to prominence 25 years ago as a leader of the Sahwa movement, which agitated to bring democracy to Saudi Arabia and criticized the ruling family for corruption, social liberalization and working with the West.
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In part because he favors more liberalization of Iran's economy and greater engagement with the West, Rouhani has broad support among Iran's youth, who want more civil liberties and less government intrusion in their private lives.
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As modern Whigs, we are free market globalists, and evangelists of the amazing power of trade liberalization to create wealth, eliminate disease, lift hundreds of millions of people from poverty, and end the pre-conditions for war.
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But without TPP, further liberalization may be off the table, and Japan media have reported recently that Abe said that even in a bilateral deal, Japan would protect key agricultural products, such as rice, beef and wheat.
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"A number of Asian TPP signatories were expected to derive significant economic gains from the TPP and the final decision by President Trump to withdraw from TPP is a blow to their trade liberalization plan," Biswas said.
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China's pledge to focus on the stable development of its capital markets will slow the pace of financial reforms as the world's second largest economy works to balance domestic needs against financial liberalization, an analyst said Monday.
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The Obama administration instead should take a page out of the human rights playbook and privately raise the harmful effects of interventionism and delaying liberalization with the Chinese every chance it gets until the message gets through.
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India's parliament has approved a long-awaited overhaul of the country's fragmented tax system to create a genuine single market in one of the most significant reforms to the Indian economy since liberalization began 25 years ago.
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But as Xi gears up for his second five-year term, foreign business executives and analysts increasingly believe market liberalization is seen as secondary to his state-centered approach to economic policy and his focus on stability.
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The flow has dropped between Turkey and Greece since an agreement in which Turkey has agreed to help stop migrants from reaching Europe illegally in return for accelerated European Union accession talks, visa liberalization, and financial aid.
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His preference for state control over market forces in running the economy, however, reportedly led to him losing influence as Premier to his lieutenant Zhu Rongji, handpicked by Deng to resurrect stalled economic reforms and market liberalization.
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Given BOD's high level of liquid assets, the large negative mismatch between short-term assets and liabilities is manageable as long as domestic monetary market conditions remain liquid and any potential liberalization of capital controls is measured.
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Instead of tit-for-tat tariffs, surplus and deficit countries should work to revive liberalization efforts and strengthen the rules-based multilateral trading system that has been in effect for the past 75 years, the IMF said.
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Chinese leaders have long promised more financial market openness but have sought to balance the liberalization moves with efforts to limit risks, a priority this year after a sharp increase in leverage threatened to undermine the economy.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - China's financial services market should be opened further to foreign competition, but liberalization of cross-border capital flows should be done more cautiously, an adviser to China's central bank said at a forum on Sunday.
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Free trade and trans-border investments are a different story; that part of what the Chinese officials call the "trinity of reforms" can, and should, proceed to prepare the ground for the gradual liberalization of capital flows.
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Macri, a member of one of Argentina's wealthiest families, had promised voters to kick-start the commodities-rich economy via a liberalization wave but four years later inflation is at 240% and the country is in recession.
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For Rouhani the stakes are high: His rapprochement with the world won him enhanced popularity at home and prestige abroad, dealing a setback to Khamenei's hardline allies, who oppose both detente with the West and domestic liberalization.
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The city and everyone living and working and playing here, including veteran part-time Uber drivers/book authors like me, will benefit from the miraculous liberalization of the ground transportation market after eight decades of taxi torture.
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"As interest rate liberalization and financial innovation continue to deepen ... the interconnectedness of financial institutions has increased, making it easier for liquidity risk to spread and transfer in the banking system," the CBRC said in its statement.
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"It is our hope that both sides would work together to stand for trade and investment facilitation and liberalization and against protectionism of all manifestations," Cheng said in a speech at the Chinese embassy, the ABC reported.
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Technical though it may seem, liberalization of our arcane foreign exchange controls will make Ukraine a much more investor-friendly place and will help the country take its rightful spot amongst the major European and global economies.
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China's attempts to stem capital outflows as a result of a depreciating yuan have led Beijing to backtrack on plans for greater market liberalization, such as the temporary suspension of initiatives designed to open up outbound investment.
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However Elyes Ben Miled, general secretary of the Tunisair union, which represents thousands of workers, told Reuters his organization was prepared to strike if the government did not pump more money into the carrier ahead of liberalization.
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California voters also approved the use of marijuana for recreational purposes, while some marijuana liberalization supporters worry that a Trump Justice Department would crack down on states with drug laws that stand in contrast to federal law.
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This sort of compensatory economic liberalization is how big welfare states can indirectly promote growth, and more or less explains why countries like Canada, Denmark, and Sweden have become more robustly capitalist over the past several decades.
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China joined the World Trade Organization in 2001, but market liberalization has lagged, and there are increasing constituencies in the United States and in other Western nations to reverse these trade agreements and cut a new deal.
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Parliament must look at the dossiers in one session in order to prevent delays to legislation required by the European Union to win visa liberalization with the bloc, Davutoglu told a business group in comments broadcast live.
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Finally, last week, the European Parliament's Justice and Home Affairs Committee acted in favor of visa liberalization for Georgian citizens, setting up the last step for Georgia's citizens to be granted expanded access to the European Union.
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The sentence, delivered four months after an election that saw Malaysia's governing party ousted for the first time since the country was founded in 1957, reflects the country's deeply conservative culture despite a liberalization in its politics.
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Every party entering the coalition must agree to painful compromises: Economic liberals have to agree to support some redistributive policies; leftists have to temporarily give up on parts of their social agenda, like liberalization of abortion law.
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The move alarmed advocates of political liberalization in China who saw it as part of a global trend of strongman leaders casting aside constitutional checks, like Vladimir V. Putin in Russia and Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Turkey.
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Mr. Do Muoi was general secretary during the crucial years of Vietnam's transition from communism to the economic liberalization called "doi moi," generally translated as "renovation," which unleashed a burst of pent-up energy in free enterprise.
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Lenders, particularly the International Monetary Fund, want further liberalization of redundancy rules and to retain the current minimum wage system which is set by law and not collective bargaining as the practice in other EU member states.
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Lopez Obrador's decision to cancel a partly built, $13 billion new airport for Mexico City, and his retreat from the prior government's liberalization of the oil and gas industry, have stirred widespread concern about his economic stewardship.
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CGT leader Philippe Martinez and other representatives of that union, which opposes the principle of liberalization, said after meeting Philippe that the strike would go on and that nothing had changed as far as they saw it.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Britain and New Zealand agreed on Monday to set up regular trade policy talks to help push for greater global trade liberalization and reform as Britain leaves the European Union, trade minister Liam Fox said.
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BMW said it would look at its prices and said the move was a "strong signal that China will continue to open up", while Audi said it welcomed the "further liberalization and opening" of the Chinese market.
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The ARENH mechanism was set up in 2010 following the liberalization of the French power market to boost competition by giving smaller rivals access to France's cheap nuclear electricity generated by its 2003 reactors operated by EDF.
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Lopez Obrador has pledged to review contracts awarded under the oil and gas liberalization for evidence of corruption, and his designated chief of staff said before the vote the auctions would continue if the process was not tainted.
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HOUSTON (Reuters) - Mexico's finance ministry is looking at ways to "soften" the price impact of gasoline market liberalization next year, Energy Minister Pedro Joaquin Coldwell said on Tuesday following a meeting of North American energy ministers in Houston.
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ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said on Saturday deals with the European Union, including an agreement on stemming the flow of migrants, would be jeopardized if the bloc failed to implement promised visa liberalization for Turks.
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A paper in May of 2016 by senior economists at the IMF, which for 40 years has driven economic liberalization of global economies, said some neo-liberal policies have increased inequality and are now jeopardizing durable global growth.
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Le Pen came second in the first round of elections on Sunday, and will run against a heavily favored Emmanuel Macron, an independent centrist whose policies mix further European integration, labor liberalization and strong elements of social insurance.
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"It's going to be issue by issue ... I don't think we should expect a group of independents to be supportive of any political, social and cultural liberalization," said Sanam Vakil, associate fellow at Britain's Chatham House think-tank.
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The EU has agreed to give Turkey 3 billion euros ($3.2 billion) to keep Syrian refugees on its soil in return for an acceleration of the EU accession talks and speeded-up visa liberalization for Turks visiting Europe.
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Meanwhile, financial liberalization and lax enforcement have contributed to outsize profits and pay packages in the financial sector, which has taken up a growing share of the economy in recent decades without delivering greater value to household investors.
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In exchange for preventing them from setting sail for Europe, Ankara won promises of 6 billion euros ($6.69 billion) in EU money for Syrian refugees living in Turkey, revival of Turkey's EU membership talks and speedy visa liberalization.
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The 100-Day Action Plan established at Mar-a-Lago was an important step toward addressing imbalances in the commercial and economic relationship that threaten that ballast, and reinstating a pragmatic agenda for bilateral trade and investment liberalization.
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Capital markets reforms and economic liberalization have been core tenets of Saudi Arabia's Vision 2030, which aims to spur greater foreign investment to diversify its economy away from its reliance on hydrocarbon revenues and grow private-sector jobs.
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Lenders, particularly the International Monetary Fund (IMF), want further liberalization of redundancy rules and retention of the current minimum wage system, which is set by law and not collective bargaining as the practice in other EU member states.
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The regime's attack on the pro-democracy movement, at a time when the Communist Party could have chosen greater liberalization over repression, ensured that the most important rising power of this century would be increasingly authoritarian in nature.
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Macri, a member of one of Argentina's wealthiest families, came to power in 2015 on promises to kick-start Latin America's third-largest economy via a liberalization wave but inflation is at 210%, the country is in recession.
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In many of his speeches Putin cites Ivan Ilyin, a Russian philosopher who warned in a 1950s essay that terms like democratization, liberalization and freedom were tools for destroying the unity and Eurasian spirit of the Russian civilization.
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"You see an old textile mill in South Carolina with a rusty gate and a rusty chain around it and you see the blight in the town, you think this is the cost of trade liberalization," Ikenson said.
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"Weko is currently examining if a certain liberalization of the mutual agreement is possible given the structural change that has taken place in the area of mechanical movements," Swatch Group said in reply to an inquiry from Reuters.
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As Democrats embrace the fight against domestic inequality, we also need a foreign policy that links the promotion of democracy with targeted efforts to prevent drastic disparities in income, even if this means constraining privatization and economic liberalization.
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Repsol joins a growing list of companies, including Royal Dutch Shell, BP and Exxon Mobil, that have flocked to Mexico's fuel sector, seeking to take advantage of a government liberalization of gasoline prices and the retail fuel sector.
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If you bundle together fiscal efficiency, some offsetting pro-growth effects, and compensatory liberalization, you can wind up with a very big government, with very high levels of social welfare spending and very little negative consequences for growth.
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Last week General Mattis made an interesting comment which was you can't expect an authoritarian control freak, he didn't use that term, but communist intrusive government at home, China, to be a force for liberalization and capitalism abroad.
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Other related proposals include a major increase in the earned-income tax credit, a focus on job-specific training at community colleges, portable pensions, liberalization of occupational licensing and, more controversially, the creation of a universal basic income.
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The lineup also includes a revival of "Case for the New Hangman" (on Saturday and May 31), a Czechoslovak movie that was fostered by the liberalization movement of the Prague Spring and was banned by the Communist government.
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The company's projected return of profitability could signal a change in fortunes for an industry mired in losses since the liberalization of the European Union sugar sector in 0003 that left producers exposed to a depressed world market.
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A speech by President Xi Jinping on Tuesday to mark 40 years of market liberalization - although lacking new specific measures - confirmed that more detailed measures will be announced to help support the world's second-largest economy, Du said.
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Lopez Obrador, a longstanding opponent of the reform, has said he wants to review the contracts awarded under the liberalization for any signs of corruption, and he could freeze further auctions of oil and gas blocks in Mexico.
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Ankara has yet to meet five of the 72 requirements for visa liberalization, according to the executive European Commission, which proposed this month relaxing travel rules for Turks if Turkey fulfilled those benchmarks by the end of June.
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But the relative liberalization of Vatican II (for example, eschewing Latin during Mass) has often been seen by later critics as paving the way for an acceptance of more extreme elements of "modernity," such as the sexual revolution.
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While battles over decriminalizing gay sex rage in some nations, the faster liberalization in the West has led campaigners to focus on other areas, such as same-sex marriage, transgender and intersex rights, and gay adoption and surrogacy.
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"Two big, highly globalized economies are stepping up and showing they're going to continue liberalization — with or without the US," Caroline Freund, a senior fellow at the generally pro-free trade Peterson Institute for International Economics, told me.
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Prior to the unaccompanied minor flare-up in 2014, the White House had adopted a relatively hands-off approach to Central America, fusing the trade and financial liberalization of the Clinton administration with George W. Bush's drug-war militarism.
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Since becoming head of the insurance regulator in 2011, Xiang had overseen rapid growth of the industry spurred in part by the liberalization of investment rules that allowed insurers to invest more of their assets at home and overseas.
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Any liberalization of the ethanol trade between Brazil and the United States would need to be "gradual" so as not to harm the local industry, Dias told reporters during a press conference on Monday, during Brazil's 2019 Agribusiness Congress.
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Clinton did more than anyone to reconfigure the politics of trade such that a large and vocal faction of Democrats championed liberalization and bi- and multilateral trade deals as engines of economic growth and necessary supports for poor nations.
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But 10 years after the liberalization of the market and despite growing market share for alternative providers, progress was slow due to regulated power and gas prices, Daniel Fava, head of Eni Gas and Power in France, told reporters.
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When data show that support among Britons for Brexiting isn't correlated with material losses associated with immigration—and where anti-immigrant sentiments long predate the migration explosion associated with EU liberalization—this counsel of prudence reads more like extortion.
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But European politicians say the visa liberalization can't take place until Turkey meets a number of democratic "benchmarks" — including rewriting anti-terror laws — and have threatened to stall EU accession talks in protest of Erdoğan's authoritarian post-coup crackdown.
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The approval of the outstanding reforms, mainly concerning Greek fiscal targets, the labor market and liberalization of the energy sector, would pave the way for further euro zone loans to Athens, which faces large repayments in the third quarter.
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Indian utilities are importing more as the government has failed to open the industry to competition because bureaucratic indecision and resistance from unions has stalled the passage of a liberalization policy approved by the country's cabinet 16 months ago.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese President Xi Jinping called on Tuesday for the unswerving implementation of reforms on Beijing's terms, saying no one could boss it around, but offered no new measures in a speech marking 40 years of market liberalization.
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GENEVA (Reuters) - Britain wants a new round of global trade liberalization at the World Trade Organization (WTO), Trade Minister Liam Fox will say in a speech in Geneva on Thursday, according to an advance draft text seen by Reuters.
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Voters in three states voted to legalize the use of marijuana for recreational purposes on Tuesday, and four more states voted to allow marijuana use for medicinal purposes, the largest mass liberalization of pot laws in the nation's history.
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"We believe orderly bond defaults could foster healthier development of the onshore bond market, increasing its attractiveness to foreign investors and facilitating China's capital account liberalization over the longer run," Morgan Stanley analysts wrote in a report in June.
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When China acceded to the World Trade Organization in 2001, the United States supported that decision for two reasons: We hoped to promote better access to China's consumer markets for American companies immediately and, eventually, political liberalization within China.
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The move comes as Singapore's biggest liberalization of its banking sector in two decades seeks to enable digital banks that can operate at lower costs and therefore offer different services than traditional lenders such as DBS Group Holdings Ltd .
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CARACAS (Reuters) - More than 50% of basic goods sold in Venezuela's major cities are paid for in hard currency, a local economic consultancy Ecoanalitica said on Wednesday, amid a broad liberalization campaign by the government of President Nicolas Maduro.
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"Forcing this despite the situation is putting a roadblock in front of the visa liberalization, and therefore we will assume they aren't keeping the promises they made," Turkish EU Affairs Minister Omer Celik said in an interview in Ankara.
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In Ukraine this month, land rights advocates sought to use the legal tool, known as the U.N. Declaration on the Rights of Peasants, to push back on a major planned liberalization of farmland they say would leave millions vulnerable.
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HAVANA (Reuters) - The Cuban government said on Monday the freeze on new licenses for some private-sector occupations would not last years, in an attempt to reassure citizens worried about an apparent pause in the liberalization of the economy.
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Under the deal, Ankara gets more EU funding for refugees living on its soil and the revival of long-stalled EU accession talks, as well as the quicker visa liberalization, the main prize in the eyes of many Turks.
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"An aggressive response to Canada's criticism is designed to send a broader message to all Western partners that the old structure in which Riyadh would quietly ignore Western demands for political liberalization is long gone," Eurasia Group's Kamel said.
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Now foreign companies that have spent billions of dollars on U.S. factories and local leaders who host them worry that global supply networks that back those investments will fray if Trump makes good on his pledge to roll back trade liberalization.
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Overwhelmed by the influx of desperate migrants, the EU struck a deal with Turkey that would see it preventing migrants from reaching the continent, in return for money, visa liberalization for Turkish citizens visiting the EU and fast-tracked EU membership.
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It's hard to remember now, but four years ago Russia seemed poised for liberalization, with a Twitter-happy technocrat, Dmitri A. Medvedev, in the Kremlin and quite a few of my media colleagues at the forefront of a boisterous protest movement.
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After African Union heads of states and governments pick the host country on Sunday, they will unveil regulations governing issues like trade liberalization, rules of origin, removal of non-tariff barriers and the development of a payments and settlements system.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar said on Saturday that he would campaign for a liberalization of the country's restrictive abortion laws ahead of a referendum in the coming months, adding that his views on the issue had evolved.
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Leather pointed out, however, that while the ruling party in Vietnam has maintained "a firm grip on power," economic liberalization in other parts of Asia such as South Korea and Taiwan have partly led to the emergence of democratic movements.
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Uber has been actively lobbying for a relaxation of the private hire vehicle cap, and appears to be playing a longer game of maintaining a partial service in Spain as it waits for the hoped for regulatory 'liberalization' down the road.
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It has not set out its macroeconomic policies in detail, so it is unclear whether a Pirate Party-led government would maintain the current government's commitment to capital control liberalization and breaking the economy's historic cycle of boom and bust.
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Pinched between fast-growing Shenzhen—a mega-city that sprung up after China's economic liberalization in the 1980s—on one side, and housing-scarce Hong Kong on the other, land in the New Territories is under pressure like never before.
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Chinese President Xi Jinping said Wednesday that China supports an open world economy and pledged further liberalization of its market to foreign investors — even as he touted the benefits of a socialist system at opening of the 19th Communist Party Congress.
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For China, yielding to these demands is only taking China down the road toward political liberalization, and it will embolden the U.S. to push for additional demands, including advancing internet freedom and human rights concerns over the treatment of Chinese citizens.
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Moreover, the European Union has begun disbursing the 3 billion euro of the Facility for Refugees in Turkey for concrete projects and work has advanced on visa liberalization and in the accession talks, including the opening of Chapter 333 last December.
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The liberalization of Mexico's energy sector is still in its early stages and more time is needed to see the results of a more competitive market, and if AMLO is serious about improving Mexico's economy, he'll let the reforms move forward.
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Third, aging societies (the "silver economy") are unlikely to turn toward significant liberalization and reform, not least given that many of the key economic problems of the day would require a reallocation of resources between the older and the younger generations.
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Xi made a vigorous defense of globalization at the World Economic Forum last month, and presented China's economy as a "wide open", despite complaints from the foreign business community that Beijing has not made good on pledges of economic liberalization.
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Depending on the capacity of the African country signing a specific agreement, EPAs call for the liberalization of between 75-98 percent of its market to EU products over a period of up to 25 years (over double that of AGOA).
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Any discussion about the net winners and losers of NAFTA should also include a broader commitment toward policies that help America's labor force become more dynamic and flexible, which would improve workers' ability to adjust to the impacts of trade liberalization.
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"A big handshake with a U.S. president about trade liberalization is a chance for Prime Minister Abe to reclaim his ground as a reformer to the Japanese public," said Takuji Okubo, managing director and chief economist at Japan Macro Advisors.
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CARACAS, Feb 26 (Reuters) - More than 50% of basic goods sold in Venezuela's major cities are paid for in hard currency, a local economic consultancy Ecoanalitica said on Wednesday, amid a broad liberalization campaign by the government of President Nicolas Maduro.
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Americans remember the revolution in Tehran, which brought to power the Ayatollah Khomeini's Islamic Republic, turned back decades of social liberalization in Iranian society and triggered the capture of more than 303 hostages in the United States Embassy in Tehran.
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The negotiations amount to an extraordinary historical anomaly: After decades of trade liberalization around the world, the governments of two major economies are sitting down to determine the extent of barriers they will place in the way of existing commerce.
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They also complicate the efforts of Mr. Xi to play both sides of an ideological divide: as a robust defender of Mao's legacy, but also a proponent of market liberalization and even a champion of globalization in the Trump age.
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This too can be justified as an effort to remove opposition to his liberalization of Saudi society, but it also has the effect of discouraging any opposition to MBS from the clergy, an until-now powerful force in Saudi society.
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While markets read the changes as a "policy desire to keep yuan strength in check," the move was merely a "return to liberalization as capital outflow fears abate," said Chang Wei Liang, a strategist at Mizuho Bank, in a note.
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Fox used a speech in Geneva to call for new global trade liberalization, portraying Britain as a beacon of free trade and urging the World Trade Organization's membership to bring their rules on services and e-commerce up to date.
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But she has to strike a very delicate balance — and pursue a broad reform agenda, partly in the hope of amending the undemocratic Constitution, while making sure not to antagonize the Tatmadaw, which has the most to lose from further liberalization.
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On the table also is visa liberalization for Turkey, which has refused to change its counter-terrorism laws in a way that would assuage concern in the EU that Ankara is applying them too broadly in order to quash dissent.
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