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You've got to help me. I've got to keep free for the next few days.

This is a victory of thousands of users, in hundreds of cities, one user, one edit at a time.

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Except for some editorial changes, the substance of the draft article remains unchanged from the one proposed in the second report.

But it is time to go further and begin to lobby aggressively for faster financial liberalization in the developing world.

The nature of services trade renders it prone to unforeseen developments, and a safety belt could assist countries in their liberalization efforts.

Some of our contributors could probably write in Persian just fine, but it started in English and I'm not comfortable editing Persian yet.

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

Republic of Vanuatu National Elections 2 May 2002 Report of the Elections Observer Group. Port Vila Electoral Commission TIV.

Mr. Samassekou (Mali) (interpretation from French) It was with deep emotion and indescribable pride that we welcomed the advent of the new democratic, united South Africa and, thus, the complete liberation of the African continent.

Economic growth is a powerful driver of development, supported by comprehensive trade liberalization by developed and developing countries alike under the World Trade Organization and Doha round negotiations.

31. Several delegations from developing countries and transitional economies stated that their Governments were committed to economic liberalization, including a measure of privatization.

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.

While the Fund remains wedded to eventual financial liberalization, it now acknowledges that free movement of capital rests on a much weaker intellectual foundation than does the case for free trade.

The first is major cities competing sense of entitlement to the fruits of the revolution Misurata, where Qaddafi s body was displayed Tripoli, which hosted the liberation ceremony and Zintan, which is holding Qaddafi s son, Saif al Islam el Qaddafi, prisoner.

Globalization had introduced liberalization and openness in the economy. The reduction of tariff and non tariff barriers had dismantled quantitative restrictions on imports and deregulated import procedures, turning the country into one of the most liberal economies in the world.

Optimists hope that this might hasten economic liberalization, and perhaps even lead to moderate political reform, especially greater accountability for far flung local officials. After all, it has been China s young guns who consistently raise the issue of local corruption at Party summits.

However, many of the liberalized provisions such as liberal access to overseas financial markets and international securities markets did not help SMEs to engage in OFDI, as many of them did not have the capability to do so.