But none of these economies had pursued wholesale economic liberalization.

At the economic front, it supports liberalization and open interaction with other nations.

Regional economic integration initiatives usually focus on trade liberalization, tariff reduction and quota abolition.

Advocates of economic liberalization policies cited the success of the rapidly industrializing East Asian economies.

Even Ireland, the champion of economic liberalization, has now turned to a more selective approach.

A process of competitive economic liberalization will sweep across Asia, further guaranteeing the region s continued resurgence.

There are two arguments and one economic shift that could accelerate a return to trade liberalization.

Moscow intellectuals debate whether the current economic crisis will bring a new wave of liberalization to Russia.

Many of these parties used to advocate market radicalism, or at least strong doses of economic liberalization.

Thus, for all its awe inspiring economic achievement, China has made remarkably little progress in political liberalization.

Ongoing economic reforms and liberalization contributed to healthy demand expansion in most Gulf Cooperation Council countries during 2004.

(i) Technical Committee on Liberalization of Foreign Trade and Economic Globalization in the Countries of the ESCWA Region

Economic liberalization should precede political reform. Arab governments and many Westerners claimed that privatization and other economic reforms should be given priority over political change.

Indeed, the APEC Economic Leaders Meeting in 1997 designated 15 major sectors including automobiles, chemicals, energy assets, and environmental measures for early liberalization. Looking back at Asia s economic growth over the past 12 years, it is clear that liberalization of trade and investment paid off.

In particular, was the key to the Asian miracle economic liberalization or the limits that were placed on it?

Current examples include Myanmar and North Korea before their economic liberalization China, Vietnam, and India were in the same boat.

This regime was superseded in the 1980 s and 1990 s by an agenda of deeper liberalization and economic integration.

Among the consequences of economic liberalization, he singled out hunger and malnutrition, noting that progress compared unfavourably with earlier decades.

Recognizing with concern that the benefits from global economic prosperity and trade liberalization have not fully accrued to all developing countries,

What went wrong? The multilateral lenders advocated a development strategy based on the theory of comparative advantage and unbridled economic liberalization.

International financial liberalization, for example, has undermined the use of more inclusive and targeted developmental credit to promote desired economic activities.

The experiences of the 1990s and from economic history more generally show that trade liberalization and global economic integration are greatly facilitated by expansion of economic activity and employment and by improvements in living standards.

Full trade liberalization in Latin America, although difficult to achieve, must be made central to EU strategy, and would boost economic growth.

In view of the mixed social development outcomes of economic globalization and liberalization, the importance of having a unified economic and social policy framework that addresses economic weaknesses and social problems simultaneously has been increasingly recognized.

Samuel Morley of the UN s Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean put together an index that graded reforms aimed at economic deregulation, trade liberalization, and opening up financial markets.

In contrast to Wei's argument that democracy was essential to economic growth, the government argued that economic growth must come before political liberalization, comparable to what happened in the Asian Tigers.

So why doesn t the public accept this need for flexibility, which, in the end, is what market based economic liberalization is all about?

Interest rate liberalization together with other financial reforms would help to improve the efficiency of capital allocation and to optimize the economic structure.

Mao s Cultural Revolution was launched 40 years ago this month, yet, despite 20 years of economic liberalization, its wounds remain a taboo subject.

Moscow intellectuals debate whether the current economic crisis will bring a new wave of liberalization to Russia. This is the key question for me.

Optimists hope that this might hasten economic liberalization, and perhaps even lead to moderate political reform, especially greater accountability for far flung local officials.

Why has India s growth acceleration fizzled? For many years, India benefited from the long lasting impact of economic liberalization in the early 1990 s.

On the contrary, experience has demonstrated that economic liberalization and de politicization (including reducing the share of public expenditure) is vital to lasting recovery.

But to avoid this type of political modernization, these countries have all opted for economic and social liberalization and integration into the world market.

Washington Consensus reforms including macroeconomic stabilization (defined as low single digit inflation) and market liberalization were supposed to reduce poverty by accelerating economic growth.

Likewise, India s government, having embraced economic liberalization, has essentially pulled back from it in recent years. Plans to allow foreign investment in retailing and other key economic sectors have been put on hold.

Market openness should be maintained and expanded by improving the multilateral trade rules and keeping them in a balanced relationship with trade liberalization, for that would enable the economies in transition to benefit from liberalization and integrate themselves better in the global economic system.

What China needs most is a financial sector capable of harnessing the forces of liberalization and globalization to drive economic growth in the decades ahead.

In periods of relative liberalization, the influence of people and groups outside the formal party structure has tended to increase, particularly in the economic realm.

The globalization of the world economy and the liberalization of world trade were accentuating the social and economic disparities between nations more than ever before.

(c) Repositioning the public service for the challenges of democratization and economic liberalization (Africa, Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States)

They also affirmed that free trade, liberalization of the economy and interdependence are the best means to accelerate equitable economic development in the developing countries.

But generational change need not be accompanied by economic reform and steps towards political liberalization witness North Korea under Kim Il Sung s son, Kim Jong Il.

Even in the United States, one of the few places where economic liberalization is not a dirty word, President George W. Bush has his own frustrations.

In particular, slow growth and revenue losses, owing to economic liberalization programs, have reduced the scope for fiscal policy, with serious consequences for poverty and destitution.