President Barack Obama is presumably sympathetic to openness in trade.

Guatemala has taken various steps to increase its openness to trade.

NEW YORK Economists generally agree on the advantages of openness in trade.

The link between trade openness and economic prosperity is strong and suggestive.

To gain from trade openness, you have to ensure that complementary policies are in place.

In the economic field, regional initiatives must promote the greater openness and effectiveness of trade associations.

NEW YORK Meetings of G 20 leaders regularly affirm the importance of maintaining and strengthening openness in trade.

Protectionism is no solution to the crisis, whereas a transatlantic free trade agreement would favor multilateralism and openness.

Others emphasize the quality of corporate law. Still others look at policies, like trade openness or lightness of taxation.

Trade and economic openness, financial stability and regulation, energy security, climate change, and many other issues confront the world collectively.

Nor should free traders worry that trade openness resulted in no additional growth for some developing countries, as critics contend.

First, openness to international trade and investment has been and will continue to be the linchpin of economic growth for the global economy.

Given Germany s trade and financial openness, as well as the leadership responsibility that accompanies its economic strength, it would face particularly high costs.

For example, after spending decades encouraging developing countries to integrate their economies into the global market, advanced countries now balk at trade openness.

China s Aborted Openness

For too long, African governments have listened to the siren song of free trade and have suffered from too much openness, not too little.

We can start with a simple principle We should strive not for maximum openness in trade and finance, but for levels of openness that leave ample room for the pursuit of domestic social and economic objectives in rich and poor countries alike.

UNCTAD's reports on the least developed countries have shown, the relationships between trade openness, trade integration, growth and poverty reduction are far from mechanical or linear it is not the case that liberalization always reduces poverty.

The Roots of German Openness

Can you quantify your openness?

NEW YORK Since World War II s end, the global economy s trade and financial openness has increased, thanks to institutions like the International Monetary Fund and successive rounds of liberalization, starting with the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) in 1947.

Diversity is a better guarantee of openness than even merit, and openness is the real hallmark of a liberal order.

Sami preyed on Layla's openness and vulnerability.

But how much openness is too much?

Only openness and accountability can reverse this trend.

We can t save cyberspace by destroying its openness.

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.

My delegation supports the Secretary General's call for increased and more effective aid, openness to trade and improved governance, including respect for the rule of law, all of which Mongolia staunchly advocates.

The process of globalization in its positive sense is promoting world economic development through the unprecedented dynamic expansion of trade and economic relations and the widest possible openness in terms of information.

This openness, this forcing openness, is key, and if it wasn't entirely transparent already, I should be open I've got a completely transparent agenda.

We live under the most liberal trade regime in history not because the WTO enforces it, but because important countries rich and poor alike find greater openness to be in their best interest.

And this openness is the beginning of exploratory play.

BEIJING At the end of September, a new free trade zone was launched in Shanghai, the aim being to mark the start of a new era not only of openness in investment, trade, and finance, but also of deeper Chinese integration into the global value chain.

For the true selves of companies to come through, openness is paramount, but radical openness is not a solution, because when everything is open, nothing is open.

Openness is a commitment to a certain set of values.

But openness brings risks, many unanticipated and most under managed.

Barack Obama also showed genuine respect and openness to Russia.

Innovation requires processes of adaptation, anticipation and openness to change.

And though it is widely conceived that trade openness can allow for faster economic growth, Mongolia is now subjected to a new geopolitical game for the flow of its railway lines between China and Russia.

Just as the poets and writers described, we're going to be able to see, I think, that wondrous openness, utter and complete openness, of the mind of a child.

Their response could, in turn, call into question that very openness.

Openness and effectiveness should be interrelated objectives of the Security Council.

More subtly, America's openness to immigration both enriches and changes American culture.

But capital controls are not the only variable that determines financial openness.

Diplomats require openness and imagination in order to carry out their responsibilities.