Liberalising land laws was briefly a priority for Mr Modi's administration.
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Vietnam, in contrast, is liberalising its economy to welcome foreign industry.
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But liberalising air travel with Europe serves a higher purpose too.
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Why is a nation of exporters so wary of liberalising trade?
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Prostitution returned in force after China began liberalising its economy in 1978.
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The military junta had begun liberalising the economy before it handed over power.
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Left-wing voters are also suspicious of Mr Macron and his liberalising designs.
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That crisis prompted liberalising reforms that helped integrate India into the global economy.
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Encouragingly, it has a track record of liberalising its policies in troubled times.
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Lately, confidence has returned, encouraged by liberalising legislation and the new government's ambitions.
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Hyperbole is not unexpected from a government keen to burnish its liberalising credentials.
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It lacks provisions for liberalising state enterprises or protecting workers and the environment.
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She also urged action on liberalising digital trade and on fish subsidies negotiations.
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No wonder Macron is struggling to defuse the unrest and keep liberalising the economy.
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The liberalising prime minister's overthrow had prompted the uprising against Soviet rule 33 years before.
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He has already issued a decree liberalising gun ownership, against the advice of Mr Moro.
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Students and unions are on the streets almost weekly to protest against liberalising labour laws.
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Public debts across the union remain large, and progress on liberalising structural reforms has largely stalled.
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This shift in opinion, should it last, could open up new opportunities for liberalising immigration reform.
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But a pre-requisite would be liberalising China's capital account to allow free movement of money.
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Three liberalising bills, which would have given nurse practitioners full-practice authority, have failed since 2007.
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He replaced Ms Rousseff's liberalising trade minister but kept the ministry's technocrats to avoid disrupting negotiations.
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Tashiro noted that Prime Minister Li's speech did not touch on liberalising rules on initial public offerings.
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That said, a pre-requisite would be liberalising China's capital account to allow the free movement of money.
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But these small liberalising steps were overshadowed by the arbitrary locking up of feminists, plutocrats and many others.
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Easing the 5/13 rule, unique to India, marks a further step towards liberalising the country's aviation market.
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India has recently raised tariffs several times, a rare occurence since it began liberalising its economy three decades ago.
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It has continued Mr Harper's policy of liberalising trade, but tilted leftwards by redistributing income and tolerating budget deficits.
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Other Free Democratic policies such as raising education standards and liberalising planning are already priorities in the chancellery too.
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But Silicon Valley's liberalising mantras are not entirely hollow: rising internet use is making Russia's information space more competitive.
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Team Trump thinks that it has helped to kindle the liberalising economic, social and religious reforms of Prince Muhammad.
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Ten years ago, he made his name by leading a massive student protest against a previous liberalising labour bill.
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This will include liberalising rules around farming marijuana (which was legalised for medical purposes by the military regime in December).
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The new prime minister has not offered to repeal Mr Rajoy's liberalising labour-market reform, as the unions would like.
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Abdurahim said the decision to allow private companies to sell services was not a precursor to fully liberalising the sector.
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Reformist officials have often had their wings clipped after liberalising drives were stifled by hardliners who feared loss of control.
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The TPP's biggest provisions concern protection for intellectual property, liberalising trade in services and enforcing stricter labour and environmental standards.
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It has rowed back on some of its predecessors' reforms, such as liberalising highly regulated professions and curbing collective wage-bargaining.
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Astonishingly, the three leading candidates all agree with Mr Macron on the need for a liberalising fix to France's struggling economy.
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In 1985, on the eve of Vietnam's doi moi liberalising reforms, its GDP per person was a mere 1% of America's.
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That will depend on the liberalising measures Mr Zhou is advocating, as indeed does the future shape of the Chinese economy.
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He has tried social justice: distancing his party from the liberalising labour-market reforms conducted by its former chancellor, Gerhard Schröder.
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His absence has mystified Cubans and dented the high expectations Mr Castro's liberalising drive once fomented, both at home and abroad.
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African countries need to diversify away from dependence on exporting commodities, which in turn means liberalising markets and bolstering independent institutions.
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It said in a statement that the move was aimed at stimulating export activity as well as liberalising the currency market.
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The presidency said in a statement that the move was aimed at stimulating export activity as well as liberalising the currency market.
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All the while, Qingchi wrote, the central bank has moved too slowly in liberalising interest rates, which would have bolstered market discipline.
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"Global trade has faced headwinds in recent years as trade-restrictive measures have outpaced liberalising measures," Draghi told the audience in Frankfurt.
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CALIFORNIA'S new laws liberalising cannabis are a good idea, but some of their provisions read like a parody of 21st-century liberalism.
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One change is that the secularising and liberalising forces that were driving evangelicals and Catholics together in 1994 have grown vastly stronger.
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A handful of them even seem to fret that Mr Dung's liberalising instincts could end up threatening the party's hold on power.
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Under President Shavkat Mirziyoyev, Uzbekistan has recently taken some steps to open up the economy, such as liberalising the foreign exchange market.
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Further reforms, such as further promoting the yuan's global clout or liberalising the capital account have now been put on the back burner.
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As economy minister, Mr Macron introduced modestly liberalising reforms, such as opening up coach transport to private firms and easing some labour constraints.
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The trade covered by the liberalising measures was worth $216 billion, about two and a half times more than in the previous report.
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But instead of liberalising these laws, some democracies such as Germany have toughened up laws, or even punish the promotion of assisted dying.
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Last June, Morocco delayed the first phase of liberalising the dirham currency, an IMF-backed reform to strengthen the North African kingdom's economy.
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Addis Ababa has ruled out liberalising the telecoms sector, saying the revenue it generates was being spent on infrastructure projects such as railways.
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Populist politicians argue, wrongly if seductively, that the key to boosting worker welfare is to undo the liberalising measures of the previous generation.
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Previous leaders have managed the tension between a liberalising economy and an obsession with stability through a mix of rapid growth and political repression.
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Treasury officials argue that China has broken the promises it made upon joining the World Trade Organisation in 217 about further liberalising its economy.
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It is even harder to make changes when so many people feel that the cost of liberalising markets in the past was unfairly distributed.
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A slew of liberalising reforms in 1991, when India was in far worse shape than now, were left unfinished as the economy gradually recovered.
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Liberalising certain sectors (coach transport) and extending Sunday working hours in applicable cases have resulted in an observable boost to activity in those areas.
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Yet despite this liberalising trend, people who monitor the freedom of religion-related speech in the West, especially Europe, see no reason to be complacent.
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With Medicare and social security there was no problem; liberalising the economy was harder graft, but business and the banks lined up eagerly behind him.
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The radical left under Jean-Luc Mélenchon lambasts Mr Macron's cautious labour reforms for being too tough, and any other modestly liberalising effort he launches.
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A 178 per cent import duty on imports of US sorghum announced on Tuesday came in tandem with plans to continue liberalising its automotive sector.
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Putin said Russia was liberalising its investment climate, but offered few specifics, except to pledge that he would sack governors who failed to support business.
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Barney Stringer, a regeneration expert, reckons liberalising 60% of the green belt within 2km (1.2 miles) of a railway station would create room for 2m homes.
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They and their high-school classmates have skipped school to go on a manif, or demo, in protest at the French Socialist government's liberalising labour bill.
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"The inflationary shock has happened, liberalising the exchange rate will not have an effect on inflation again," Amer told local broadcaster DMC in a televised interview.
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Hopes that liberalising reforms would breathe new life into India's economy have permeated the air since Narendra Modi swept to power as prime minister in May 2014.
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As Labour home secretary from 1965-173, Roy Jenkins took the government out of the bedroom with a series of liberalising laws on divorce, homosexuality and censorship.
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And Chinese regulators are belatedly liberalising the domestic market by giving up their control of fares, potentially leaving carriers with less spare cash to subsidise foreign operations.
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As well as restricting trade, rather than liberalising it, they will make it tricky to agree more permissive rules of origin for cars in future trade deals.
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Marine unions have strongly resisted wage cuts and reforms liberalising the shipping sector, which along with tourism is a pivotal industry for Greece, a country of seafarers.
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Marine unions have strongly resisted reforms liberalising the shipping sector, which along with tourism is a pivotal industry for Greece, a country of proud seafarers and shipowners.
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MSCI said it decided not to add local Chinese shares to its key emerging market index as Beijing had more work to do in liberalising capital markets.
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Mr Macron paid a visit to a regional travel company, highlighting how a reform he introduced in 2015, liberalising transport, created a new industry of inter-city coaches.
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In the 1980s and early 1990s, as a precocious law professor at Fudan University in Shanghai, Mr Wang grappled with the political consequences of Deng Xiaoping's liberalising reforms.
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Globalisation and the liberalising "Hartz" labour-market overhaul of the early 2000s were big factors in Germany's economic success, but they have also made the country more unequal.
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He freed political prisoners, won the Nobel Peace Prize for ending a long-running conflict with neighbouring Eritrea, and has begun liberalising sectors of the state-run economy.
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The same day, in state-run media, China announced a timetable for liberalising the financial services sector, which should benefit the Chinese economy as well as foreign companies.
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To be sure, China has continued liberalising sections of its domestic markets, including opening up its interbank bond market to all "medium and long term" investors in February.
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G20 countries had also implemented a monthly average of almost seven trade-liberalising measures, such as reducing import tariffs and export duties, in line with the trend since 2012.
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It operates refineries in China and has been expanding its oil-trading operations to facilitate purchases from abroad following regulatory changes liberalising imports of crude and products into the country.
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French centre-right voters now have a choice between two candidates who broadly share a liberalising economic agenda, which breaks with the more statist centre-right programmes of the past.
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The new government is trying to speed up procedures for foreign direct investment and liberalising foreign exchange market to attract more dollar inflows to face a balance-of-payments crisis.
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The outcome is the latest in a series of popular votes for liberalising change in Ireland, which have ushered in same-sex marriage and lifted a virtual ban on abortion.
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Whereas academics argue about the pros and cons of free movement of goods or people, they now mostly agree that liberalising capital flows can sometimes do more harm than good.
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And Mr Johnson's need to keep his new Brexit-backing supporters will limit whatever scope he might have had to go for a liberalising, low-tax and low-spend future.
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And the early years of Mr Erdogan's tenure, when he was seen as a liberalising democrat, saw rapid economic growth; his transformation into an emerging autocrat has not put investors off.
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His liberalising programme will probably be less bold than that of the beleaguered Mr Fillon, who has promised to trim the state payroll by 500,000 workers and slash the labour code.
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The Jobs Act in the U.S., and the wider growth of people shifting all of their financial services online, has created a landscape of startups that are liberalising how capital moves.
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Morocco, the region's biggest energy importer, has been working with a technical mission from the IMF on liberalising its currency regime after a drop in global oil prices helped strengthen its finances.
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Foreign investors bought into his liberalising vision after the 2015 election, with Wall Street chiefs such as Jamie Dimon, boss of JPMorgan Chase, proclaiming that Argentina had come in from the cold.
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A further $541 billion of trade, 4 percent of G20 countries' imports, was covered by expansion of the WTO's Information Technology Agreement, a liberalising measure that was excluded from the report's headline numbers.
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After Mr Modi's first victory in 2014, liberals hoped the pro-business tub-thumper would become a pro-market prime minister, encouraging investment by liberalising labour and land laws, relying on statecraft, not stagecraft.
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Last year, India overhauled rules governing its aviation industry, liberalising norms for domestic carriers to fly overseas and spreading the country's air travel boom to smaller cities by capping airfares and opening new airports.
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The North African kingdom has been working with the International Monetary Fund on liberalising its currency as its finances have strengthened, helped in part by lower global oil prices that trimmed energy import costs.
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"The central bank plans to continue gradually liberalising currency regulation if the condition of the money and currency markets and the Ukrainian economy as a whole allow it," the bank said in a statement.
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A year later, the government led by prime minister Manuel Valls bypassed rebel socialist MPs and forced a liberalising law through parliament to extend Sunday trading hours and opened a few sectors to competition.
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In a book he wrote last year he arrives at a liberalising ideology through observation—statist policies have not worked in France—and from a belief that prosperity is a precondition for preserving national sovereignty.
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Attitudes towards tattoos are liberalising: in a study that the Pew Research Centre, a think-tank, released in 2010 38% of Americans aged 18-29 had tattoos, compared with 15% for those aged 46-64.
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The chancellor promised that, unlike his Labour predecessors, he would take tough decisions to improve the economy, whether this was liberalising planning to boost housebuilding, promoting competition between energy firms, or cutting red tape for businesses.
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He won by a landslide at the 2013 election and has since delivered strong economic results and a series of liberalising social reforms in what some have termed a "cultural revolution" in this predominantly Catholic country.
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RABAT, June 29 (Reuters) - Morocco's central bank has postponed for "a few days" its announcement of the first phase of liberalising its dirham currency, a key International Monetary Fund-backed reform for the North African kingdom.
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China said in December it would allow limited convertibility of the yuan in three free trade zones, in Guangdong, Fujian and Tianjin, further liberalising its capital account after its currency was admitted to the IMF's reserve basket.
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Much of the progress so far on CMU—such as liberalising rules for venture-capital funds and making it easier for small firms to list on stock exchanges—counts for less without new pools of capital to tap into.
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His successor, Mr Mirziyoyev, has surprised the world by liberalising politically as well as economically: he has freed 50 political prisoners and removed 20,000 citizens from blacklists of people suspected of extremist tendencies, often simply because they were Muslims.
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Its hard-won economic success buoyed for the time being by a weak euro, low interest rates, an oil glut and the liberalising labour-market reforms of her SPD predecessor, Gerhard Schröder, the country wants an administrator, not a reformer.
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Index provider MSCI Inc said on Tuesday that Beijing had more work to do in liberalising its capital markets before it could add Chinese A shares to its emerging markets index, which is tracked by $1.5 trillion of managed assets.
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SHANGHAI (Reuters) - China on Friday said that it will soon introduce a foreign currency lending business that will allow borrowers to use offshore foreign currency bonds as collateral for interbank loans, in a further step toward liberalising the country's capital markets.
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Index provider MSCI Inc said on Tuesday that Beijing had more work to do in liberalising its capital markets before it could add Chinese A shares to its emerging markets index, which is tracked by $43 trillion of managed assets.
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MADRID, Feb 24 (Reuters) - The Spanish cabinet passed a decree on Friday aimed at liberalising hiring practices in the country's ports, a move that has prompted unions to call a nine-day strike expected to cause major disruption to key export chains.
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Investors are placing their faith in him to lead the fiscal adjustment of 290-22016% of GDP required to stabilise the public debt, and the liberalising reforms needed to rekindle growth after a recession in 2400-2100 that wiped 1.33% off GDP.
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He may think it is all part of confronting Iran; or he may want to support the liberalising reforms of the Saudi crown prince, Muhammad bin Salman; or he may hope to profit by selling the Saudis "lots of beautiful military equipment".
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"I think the discussion on chemicals was motivated by our discussion of ... the Information Technology Agreement and perhaps using a similar modality for the chemicals sector, where there's a wide range of products, and similar ideas for liberalising this sector worldwide," she said.
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"Over the last few months the National (central) Bank has adopted a series of regulations aimed at liberalising the stock market rules and creating favourable conditions for investors and issuers," Maria Khajiyeva, director of the securities market supervision department at the central bank, said.
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The government may be its own worst enemy, say other backers of its liberalising economic agenda, by injecting too much jumlebaazi—"word play" or "catchphrase" in Hindi, ie, hype—into the debate, thereby raising unrealistic expectations of land and labour reform and much more.
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Although greater than the number of barriers being erected, the new trade-liberalising measures were the lowest monthly average since the WTO began monitoring in May 2012, while new trade restrictions were more than 3.5 times higher than the average in WTO monitoring reports since then.
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Firms with extensive continental operations, such as easyJet or IAG, will be sorely tempted to shift headquarters inside the EU. Dreams of a "European Single Sky", to centralise air-traffic control and cut costs, are fading on the assumption that liberalising Brits will no longer push them.
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The blow was softened, explains Pavel Vidal, a Cuban economist at Javeriana University in Cali, in Colombia, partly by a rise in American tourism following Barack Obama's thaw towards Cuba and by a modest increase in foreign investment as a result of Raúl Castro's mildly liberalising economic reforms.
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His supporters argue that he needed to arrogate more power to himself in order to modernise the country's society and economy—proposing the sale of shares in the national oil company, for instance, to raise money to invest in a post-oil future, and liberalising the position of women.
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Here in the state of Thuringia the SPD is a junior partner in a government led by the (relatively pragmatic) local branch of the Left party, a merger of former East German communists and Western social democrats who quit the SPD over its liberalising "Agenda 2010" welfare and labour reforms.
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The 2019 forecast was lowered due to the Senate's approval on Tuesday of legislation liberalising rice imports, as well as a suspension of a new round of excise tax increases for fuel that were set to take effect in January, according to Cyd Tuano Amador, a deputy central bank governor.
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In wealthy countries, where maternity wards are quiet partly because the young are so economically insecure, governments can help by doing things they should be doing anyway: liberalising labour markets that shut the young out of jobs, relaxing planning rules to make housing cheaper and promoting child-friendly policies in the workplace.
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After a battle with the Home Office, Billy was given 20 days' worth of his anti-epileptic seizure drugs, and Home Secretary Sajid Javid told Parliament he would launch a review into medicinal cannabis, with a view to liberalising the laws surrounding it if experts conclude there are "significant medical benefits" to cannabis-based medicine.
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Far from liberalising the country, Mr Kim has tightened the shackles, reinforcing the border with China to make it harder for people to escape and cracking down hard on offences such as possessing a flash drive loaded with South Korean soap operas, or owning a Chinese SIM card in order to make international calls near the border.
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