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

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

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

But the case for non discrimination in trade is also a compelling one.

Small countries tend to be open to trade. Often, they are open to new ideas and freer than large countries to experiment.

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.

I am committed to working to maintain economic openness, because it is good for America and for our workers.

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

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.

Most important, economic outcomes are becoming increasingly aligned with the authorities goals.

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Having more open economies allows more trade in innovation, so that new companies can almost instantly use smart ideas from around the globe.

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.

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.

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

And this openness is the beginning of exploratory play.

Openness is a commitment to a certain set of values.

There is nothing they fear as much as opening up and reducing tension with America.

A policy of opening the country would therefore quickly put the regime s existence at risk.

I believed that I could not open our country while dictating to others.

But this opening to modernity extends beyond economics and finance.

Our political system will be extremely open, flexible.

Often, they are open to new ideas and freer than large countries to experiment. The results of such experiments even those that fail include useful lessons for all of us.

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.

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

So here's the lessons of openness that I think we need to learn.

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

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.

The US views an opening to Turkey as a way to decrease Armenia s real and imagined reliance on Russia.

He is the son of immigrants, the outsider whose rise to the top is living proof of French openness.

The danger is that overreach will lead civil society and voters in democratic developing countries to react against self serving displays of hegemonic might by jettisoning free trade itself, on the assumption that such openness is little more than neo colonialism.

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

Any realistic agenda for change in Cuba inexorably requires opening up to the world, along with ensuring full freedom within the country.

Moreover, Europeans should, in the same spirit of openness, ask themselves what they can learn from Asia.

Openness and transparency do not mean simply making everything available online, but making information easy to get to, compare, and analyze.

Chile and Peru, too, have fallen in line with US priorities by emphasizing their openness to American investment.

Now, I think there are lessons we should learn here, lessons about openness.

There was an increased openness and an intensification of the dialogue between the Government and representatives of civil society and the international community.

The report seems to suggest an approach that is too open for fragile developing States.

Not long ago, the IMF pushed hard for countries rich or poor to open up to foreign finance.

But it is now clear to historians that Richard Nixon was determined to make his overture to China from the moment he began his presidency.

The point of openness is to make those in power behave better and to make us trust them more.

Moreover, the disarmament machinery cannot continue to function effectively without a modest further opening to the outside world.

His Nobel Peace Prize demands it.

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