Yet today, both are under pressure to liberalize.

(l) To liberalize the system for maintaining public order

But Yanukovych refuses to liberalize gas prices, a key IMF demand.

Ikeda planned to liberalize trade to 80 percent within three years.

We as a result, we decided to liberalize many of our markets.

Several other policy measures to liberalize the penal system have been taken.

In 1994, the World Trade Organization was created to liberalize trade under agreed rules.

A complementary approach is to liberalize capital outflows further, in order to offset inflows.

Will the government liberalize interest rates or loosen capital controls? How will the fiscal system be revamped?

Paramount to CAFTA is a concern about the extent to which Central American countries will liberalize their economies.

He could liberalize the exchange rate and let it float upwards, but he is not even doing that.

The Asian financial crisis persuaded China s leaders to shelve plans, launched in 1994, to liberalize the capital account.

(g) To liberalize the legal provisions on public order and to continue assimilation into a regular criminal justice system

Adopting a common rule of origin for their products would be an incentive to liberalize their international trade further, thus increasing it.

Subsequently, legislation had been introduced to liberalize family planning laws, increase protection of women and children's health, and amend the Nationality Code.

But, in an environment of slow growth and high unemployment, sentiment in the advanced countries regarding efforts to liberalize trade is distinctly negative.

Noting the proposals made to implement the work programme of the World Trade Organization, including those to liberalize international agricultural and non agricultural trade,

Noting the proposals made to implement the work programme of the World Trade Organization, including those to liberalize international agricultural and non agricultural trade,

Deng supported Zhao s drive to liberalize the economy, even though it was creating mixed results in 1988 and 1989, with inflation spiking and economic anxiety pervasive.

For our part, Ghana has adopted development strategies and followed advice given by the multilateral financial institutions and other development partners to liberalize and restructure its economy.

An EU Japan treaty is already in the wind, as is a Trans Pacific Partnership to liberalize trade among the US and major Asian and Latin American economies.

Some developing countries with restrictive regimes, such as China, India, South Africa and Turkey, have taken steps to liberalize and relax exchange controls that augur well for OFDI.

Many analysts viewed this policy, which introduced a small degree of previously non existent competition among commercial banks, as a sign that China would soon liberalize interest rates further.

Indeed, experience gives little reason to presume that a modern way of speaking, willingness to liberalize the economy, and an urge for technological development automatically translates into a democratic opening.

That is why crises began to increase in number and severity after financial systems in the developed world started to liberalize in the 1970 s, beginning in the United States.

Ironically, Western countries are shifting to statism at the very moment that China appears to be heading in the opposite direction witness its recent moves to liberalize its financial system.

Many speakers also raised concerns with regard to existing pressure on developing countries to liberalize the services sector, especially in respect of essential services such as water, energy, health and education.

Similarly, the tycoons advocate restored cooperation with the International Monetary Fund, because they want access to credit at reasonable interest rates. But Yanukovych refuses to liberalize gas prices, a key IMF demand.

The Government of Uganda decided in 1994 to liberalize the gold trade, revoke the gold export tax of 3 to 5 per cent, and relax all administrative burdens imposed on trading companies.

It had the honour of hosting the fourth WTO Ministerial Conference, which adopted the Doha agenda, reflecting the importance of achieving development in the framework of multilateral international negotiations to liberalize trade.

Participants lamented that developing countries were pressed to liberalize the services sector, especially essential services such as water, energy, health and education, which reduced access to these sectors by poor people, particularly women.

Those countries that did not fully liberalize their capital and financial markets, such as China, will be thankful that they did not follow the urging of Paulson and the US Treasury to do so.

So long as developed countries do not fully liberalize their markets by reducing high tariffs and removing non tariff barriers to trade, developing countries will continue to face decreased access to markets in rich countries.

Russians accuse Europeans of taking too long to liberalize visas, blocking Russian energy companies access to Europe s downstream markets, instigating anti Russian sentiment in the post Soviet era, and trying to interfere in Russia s domestic politics.

Currently, following the implementation in 2003 of a set of measures to liberalize the criminal law, there is a provision for the death penalty for the commission of only two crimes premeditated murder under aggravating circumstances and terrorism.

The EU s decision to liberalize its visa regime for Serbia, Montenegro, and Macedonia and the fact that George Papandreou, the major architect of the EU s Balkan integration strategy, is back in power in Greece is another source of optimism.

A study published in 2005 by economists Geert Bekaert, Campbell Harvey, and Christian Lundblad found that when countries liberalize their stock markets, allowing them to operate freely without government intervention, economic growth rises by an average of one percentage point annually.

Chinese analysts gleefully point out that, after having sung the liberalize, privatize, and let the markets decide song for so long, the United States and Britain took the lead in bailing out their financial giants at the first sign of trouble.

Whereas the standard story the one that motivated the drive to liberalize capital flows is that developing countries are saving constrained, the fact that capital is moving outward rather than inward in the most successful developing countries suggests that the constraint lies elsewhere.

Although labeled as Islamist by its opponents, the AKP has been much more willing to liberalize Turkey than its secular counterparts, most of which are zealously nationalist. The Annual Report of the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom makes this point nicely

It was not possible to liberalize trade without multilateral trade negotiations, a point re affirmed in July 2004 when the UNCTAD General Conference in Geneva had committed itself to achieving ambitious results in the Doha Round negotiations, particularly in regard to agriculture.

On the basis of the established principles and rules of international law and the provisions of the Constitution of the Republic of Uzbekistan, which proclaim and guarantee the human right to life, as well as for the purpose of taking specific measures to further liberalize criminal penalties

In addition, resolution No. 137 of 31 March 1998 of the Cabinet of Ministers on additional measures to liberalize foreign trade operations in the Republic of Uzbekistan gives the List of specific goods (works, services) the export and import of which require permission from the empowered agencies in Uzbekistan.

Capital controls enabled China to emerge from the Asian financial crisis of 1997 1998 largely unscathed, even though its financial system was at least as fragile as those of the affected countries. The Asian financial crisis persuaded China s leaders to shelve plans, launched in 1994, to liberalize the capital account.

Preserving the European bias against credits from forest projects is not justified, as positive experience emerging from the first land use projects will show. In the Doha trade negotiations, industrialized nations accepted the need to liberalize their agricultural markets by reducing subsidies to domestic producers and tariff barriers on agricultural imports.