Free market ideas took hold.

This has helped great nations such as China and India to assert themselves self confidently as global powers.

In Ukraine, political forces resisting closer strategic links to the West have gained ground.

Regional institutions can entrench themselves only if their members promote adherence to the spirit and letter of their legal frameworks.

Opposition parties found their feet, and the PDP s power monopoly was finally broken but not obliterated.

After any such media stoked scandal, there should be a pause to allow better norms to take root.

To a lesser degree, Latin American enterprises such as Gruma, Modelo, Embraer, Marco Polo, and Embraco have successfully introduced themselves in China.

Until China is released from the grip of religious politics, Liu s ideals are unlikely to take root.

It has built or is building pipelines to Turkey and Germany, taken over an oil company, and sought footholds in European distribution markets.

While many of the countries of the world are struggling to meet their Millennium Development Goals, Somalia is struggling to stand on its feet.

Three years ago, President Felipe Calderón decided to deploy the armed forces in several states where the main drug gangs are established.

World class design and brands already have a foothold in Europe, where creative industries are stronger that the car industry. There are good reasons for that.

People quickly embraced formal democracy, but the tolerance and compromise that is at the heart of the democratic process took time to take root.

And, in fact, when we did the interview I did the living self portrait with her there were three former directors of the CIA basically sitting at her feet, just enjoying her presence.

And, while the new government settles in and establishes its priorities, the West, especially the United States, must reassess the impact of its past dealings with Pakistan.

Nevertheless, long term US interests in the region will be better served if Pakistan s democratic forces successfully establish themselves.

The same was true in the Philippines, Taiwan, Indonesia, and Thailand, and, indeed, in the Middle East, where democracy is yet to take root.

But 2009 was the year that democracy appeared to take root in the region and yet the future looks as bleak as ever.

Women enter the workplace at the top, and then at the working class, all the new jobs that are created are the kinds of jobs that wives used to do for free at home.

Of course, governments can slash their expenditure and increase taxes to balance their budgets, or at least to embark on a path leading in that direction, as the hotly debated example of Greece has shown.

However, sSystematic support in the near future will be important in sustaining the potential of subregional and regional cooperation and in assisting the related collaboration frameworks, such as the SRAPs and TPNs, to become fully operational and established in the regions.

Changing the rules of the game to prop up personal rule would help perpetuate weaknesses such as a lack of accountability, and prevent important government policies from becoming entrenched as state policies.

What was needed was cancelation of reparations and inter Allied war debts as a whole, together with a big reconstruction loan to put the shattered European economies back on their feet.

The representative indicated that women had firmly occupied their social position and had been a force in the promotion of the social and economic development of the country, owing to satisfactory legislation and policies on gender equality and to preferential treatment.

In doing so, the US embarked on a preposterous grand strategy that aimed no less at simultaneously dismantling Iraq s tyrannical regime, restructuring the entire Middle East, destroying al Qaeda, and helping democracy to take root throughout the Arab world.

LONDON The Middle East continues to have the highest concentration of dictatorships in the world. But 2009 was the year that democracy appeared to take root in the region and yet the future looks as bleak as ever.

To be sure, the muted impact of inflation on interest rates is not surprising in transition economies, where the mechanisms of monetary policy transmission and financial intermediation took long periods to put in place and still need reform and regulation.