" As for whether Saudi Arabia is liberalizing, Coogle says, "Saudi Arabia officials use minimal reforms to make it appear as though society is liberalizing.
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Abiy's liberalizing, democratizing reforms continue, but he faces stiff criticism.
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At the same time, China is liberalizing its economy. Economics.
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India is therefore liberalizing bond investment rules to entice more foreigners.
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He was what we would have traditionally called a "liberalizing" influence.
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Or Saudi money cynically deployed against every agent of liberalizing transformation?
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Liberalizing voting laws and improving civics education are long-term projects.
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You put those things together and it favors a liberalizing trend.
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While liberalizing their economies, they have forgotten to liberalize their minds.
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The major step toward liberalizing trade has been discussed since 2013.
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The liberalizing forces of civil society and market economics are not prevailing.
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They've been talking about liberalizing their capital account for a long time.
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Approximately half (51 percent) of federal lawmakers favor liberalizing medical cannabis policies.
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At the same time, hopes for vigorous liberalizing reforms are probably misplaced.
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This new law highlights the difficulties Rouhani faces in liberalizing the economy.
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Wade could have stopped the trend in the country toward liberalizing abortion laws.
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Justice Samuel Alito is the sole exception to the liberalizing of the court.
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Here's the exchange: Wilbur Ross: There's no question that they're liberalizing their society.
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Supporters point to national polls that show most Americans favor liberalizing marijuana laws.
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In recent years, Canada has been liberalizing its high-skilled immigration visa system.
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Turkey's EU accession ambitions need to be urgently revived to encourage liberalizing reforms.
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First, instead of liberalizing, the Chinese regime has become more aggressive and repressive.
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They shut down some nascent liberalizing reforms that had angered ultraconservative clerics, for example.
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Florida and California are two of eight states that will vote on liberalizing marijuana laws.
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He had just sacked his cabinet, and many people expected him to announce liberalizing reforms.
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At the same time, global income inequality has declined noticeably because of liberalizing economic reforms.
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After liberalizing the economy for nearly four decades, the government appears to be reversing course.
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Unirule was founded 25 years ago to promote liberalizing China's economy and democratizing its government.
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Macron is a social liberal, a centrist, and an evangelist for liberalizing the French economy.
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He is a social liberal, a centrist, and an evangelist for liberalizing the French economy.
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Turkey should, instead, focus on liberalizing politics and the economy to encourage domestic reconciliation and tranquility.
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Still, President Pena Nieto has been very cautious about the possibility of liberalizing Mexico's drug laws.
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How can the Cuban economy, which is already liberalizing fast, handle an influx of new capital?
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But a pre-requisite would be liberalizing China's capital account to allow free movement of money.
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Only Palo Alto has not yet caught up with its northern neighbors in liberalizing A.D.U. construction.
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It will make anyone who believes in the liberalizing promise of higher education quickly lose heart.
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Bloomberg has funded major public advocacy efforts aimed at liberalizing immigration policies and restricting gun ownership.
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President Francois Hollande says liberalizing the labor market is the best way to tackle double-digit unemployment.
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And it&aposs also a state that has done more than most states in liberalizing drug laws.
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Recent liberalizing of U.S. energy exports, including crude oil and LNG, confers economic and national security benefits.
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Xi pledged to continue liberalizing the economy and boosting private companies, while also strengthening state-owned enterprises.
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A long-term explanation is the trend that began in the 1980s towards liberalizing gun carrying laws.
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Whatever was left of the notion that Mr. Erdogan was a liberalizing force has been wholly extinguished.
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He reiterated his view that China had stopped liberalizing its economy and was actually reversing these trends.
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Liberalizing the scope of practice laws will grant Americans access to a wealth of talented healthcare providers.
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They did this in part by shutting down some nascent liberalizing reforms that had angered ultraconservative clerics.
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Rising renewable output, as well as rising competition in liberalizing markets, also eats away at incumbent power operators.
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Swatch said liberalizing movement delivery rules would let it better meet the needs of ETA's third-party customers.
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He pointed out that China has had some success in liberalizing its economy in the southern Guangdong province.
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Aung San Suu Kyi has been essential to liberalizing Burma, but she alone cannot fix what ails it.
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Walsh, the former prosecutor, has concluded that the tension between the federal government and liberalizing states is unsustainable.
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Marine unions have strongly resisted wage cuts prescribed by the country's international lenders and reforms liberalizing the shipping sector.
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While his mother dismissed the experience as "liberalizing" and "heathenizing," he recognized it as the freedom to be himself.
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All of this is going on while China has been slowly but systematically moving toward liberalizing agricultural commodity imports.
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A modernized NAFTA must therefore include enforceable provisions liberalizing electronic commerce, telecommunications, digital trade and cross-border data flows.
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As Ronald Reagan learned, diplomatic engagement with an "evil empire's" moderate elements undermines conservative hardliners and fosters liberalizing reforms.
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This resistance stems from the perception that India is uninterested in liberalizing or in integrating with the global economy.
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As states were liberalizing their marijuana laws, they could have been changing other policies that also affected opioid overdoses.
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The main unionist party, the DUP, opposes liberalizing abortion laws, while the main nationalist party, Sinn Fein, backs some changes.
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He has stepped up executions and rolled back some of the liberalizing measures of his predecessor and brother, King Abdullah.
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But officials have already said changing the course of Macron's reforms aimed at liberalizing the economy will be off limits.
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China's policy makers are likely to continue their gradual process of liberalizing the currency toward a market-determined exchange rate.
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I THINK THEY'RE WILLING TO HAVE A CONVERSATION WITH THE U.S. AT THE SAME TIME THEY'RE LIBERALIZING THEIR MARKETS NOW.
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Her success, which involved foreign agents and a startling advance, was linked to India's kick-starting, liberalizing economy as well.
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In Ethiopia, Africa's second-most-populous country, a liberalizing prime minister has freed political prisoners and loosened years of constraints.
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Government supporters say such measures are necessary as the authorities chart a difficult course between liberalizing reforms and traditional society.
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For those who see in the decline of American religion a progressive, liberalizing force, I must offer a word of caution.
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The TPP accomplished the modernization of NAFTA, incorporating new disciplines on the digital economy and further liberalizing the North American market.
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But aides to Macron have said changing the course of Macron's reforms aimed at liberalizing the economy will be off limits.
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If Florida voters say yes, other Southern states that have been resistant to liberalizing drug laws could reconsider their prohibitions, too.
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The Arab Spring quickly became a contest between liberalizing forces and Islamist groups, with sectarianism and authoritarianism hanging in the background.
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Political risks to financial markets may be receding, but hopes for a wave of liberalizing reforms are likely to be misplaced.
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In short, just as Japan and Europe are liberalizing trade with each other, Britain is moving to impede trade with both.
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In a government-financed survey of 249,2700 women ages 22017 to 44 last year, three-quarters called for liberalizing abortion regulations.
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The Rouhani government's nascent reforms are reminiscent of the liberalizing changes that ushered in the collapse of a different authoritarian state.
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So why is the Chinese government clamping down on the private sector when liberalizing it has served the economy so well?
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In 2014, a study published in JAMA Internal Medicine gave further hope that liberalizing marijuana laws might alleviate the opioid crisis.
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Liberalizing leasing laws is key to doubling farmers' incomes by 2022, a flagship policy goal of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Haque added.
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She cited IMF research showing that liberalizing trade in services could add about $350 billion to global GDP in the long run.
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The OECD report also covered other subjects, including some recommendations on policy reforms in managing subsidies and liberalizing the importation of food.
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Another recent study, conducted at the MD Anderson Cancer Center, took the notion of liberalizing cancer trial eligibility criteria to its extreme.
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Liberalizing postal pension investment rules is a unique opportunity to reform a pension system without labor, consumers, or taxpayers taking a hit.
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In the allegedly backward Kaiserreich, Eley and Blackbourn saw various liberalizing forces in motion: housing reform, public-health initiatives, an emboldened press.
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The focus on liberalizing the financial sector should support China's strategic shift towards services to reduce reliance on traditional industries for growth.
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"Liberalizing the economy of Iran is not an option, it's an obligation," said Saeed Laylaz, a leading reformist economist and Rouhani supporter.
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In the late 1970s and early 1980s, they were frozen until a liberalizing leader, Mikhail Gorbachev, shook the pillars of Soviet power.
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But as he began amassing supreme powers, this analysis points out, the notion that he was a liberalizing force has been extinguished.
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Douthat's wariness of a "liberalizing" church touches not just on Catholicism per se, but on a wider question of modernity and ethics.
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Liberalizing the airspace will especially benefit China's tourism, emergency medical services and pilot training sectors, which operate light aircraft and helicopters, they said.
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To balance its gas portfolio amid a liberalizing Polish gas market PGNiG said it plans to place some gas on the international markets.
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For groups who believe in the inherent sacredness of life from the moment of conception, liberalizing abortion law would be a symbolic blow.
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The cliché about America today is that we're a country divided between two coasts — two coasts that are liberalizing, pluralizing, globalizing and modernizing.
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But they don't hide from the fact that they are continuing a decades-long process of liberalizing India's economy to help it grow.
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So far, Mr. Macedo said, the new government has carried out easy changes, including liberalizing the state news media and allowing political demonstrations.
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The measure was backed by groups like the New Approach PAC and the Marijuana Policy Project, two longtime supporters of liberalizing marijuana laws.
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Opioid misuse has declined in recent years at the same time that cannabis use has been increasing, with many states liberalizing marijuana laws.
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At the same time, Chinese authorities have committed to liberalizing the currency further before it enters the International Monetary Fund's SDR basket this year.
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Without approval by the United States, the accord liberalizing trade among Pacific Rim countries representing 40 percent of the global economy cannot take effect.
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Mother Mary Angelica, 92, founded the largest Roman Catholic TV network in the U.S., and used it to criticize liberalizing trends in the church.
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None of the suggestions laid out in The Second Machine Age — liberalizing immigration policy or investment in infrastructure, education and research — have been pursued.
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The U.S.-China BIT had long been viewed within the broader foreign business community to be the vanguard of liberalizing investment deals with China.
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In every year since 2010, the leading economies have instituted more discriminatory trade measures than liberalizing ones, according to data from Global Trade Alert.
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He vowed to hit Mexico with tariffs mere months after he agreed to a new version of a deal liberalizing trade across North America.
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But they fear outspoken conservative opponents to liberalizing sentencing laws, especially Senator Tom Cotton of Arkansas, could pull Mr. Trump out of their camp.
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The Times called it an effort to undercut Europe's growing approval of the Russian, who had instituted a liberalizing policy called Glasnost, or openness.
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The Times called Reagan's address an effort to undercut Europe's growing approval of Gorbachev, who had instituted a liberalizing policy called glasnost, or openness.
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The measure was backed by groups like the New Approach PAC and the Marijuana Policy Project, two long-time supporters of liberalizing marijuana rules.
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Varadkar told parliament on Wednesday that Ireland would hold a referendum next year on liberalizing Ireland's abortion laws, currently among the most restrictive in Europe.
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The WTO was not impeccable but it was the most desirable channel for liberalizing and facilitating trade and investment on a global scale, it said.
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We still tend to think of China as that of the government of Deng Xiaoping, who placed China firmly on a liberalizing, market-oriented track.
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While the DM made significant legislative progress in liberalizing resource investment, policy flip-flops and a prevailing sense of nationalism dampened interest from foreign investors.
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Until Mr. Kaczynski's Law and Justice Party returned to power last autumn, Poland was viewed as a model of a reviving democracy and liberalizing economy.
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Mr. Powell said it was possible Mr. Trump's strategy would end up liberalizing trade, by forcing other nations to reduce tariffs levied on American exports.
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He was behind the curve on the rights of sex workers, at a time when movement on the left is toward liberalizing sex-work laws.
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They had been part of a Muslim student group arrested years before for activities like holding discussions on liberalizing Islam and working for peaceful change.
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Liberalizing US trade policy would increase demand for foreign labor, shrink wage differences between the US and its trade partners, and reduce the incentive for migration.
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Britain in the eighties was experiencing the fullest—and most painful—extent of Margaret Thatcher's reforms, aimed at liberalizing and deregulating the country's postwar industrial economy.
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Divorce remained exceedingly rare until the first liberalizing laws of the nineteenth century; breaking up in the more colloquial sense is not even a century old.
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There is a significant difference between the dominant trend in Asia — which is towards opening up the economy, liberalizing, integrating — and the trend in the West.
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That decision is the latest in a string of liberalizing moves by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the young Saudi ruler, which includes letting women drive.
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The Eighth was passed in 1983, in response to the legalization of abortion elsewhere in the West — a conservative Irish exception to a general liberalizing trend.
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But while the protests raised the profile of the White Noise group and its cause of liberalizing drug laws, they did not spread beyond young people.
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The new deal was a clear sign that other parts of the world will continue to pursue a liberalizing trade agenda, even without the United States.
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Even before Mr. Trump took office, a mammoth deal negotiated by the Obama administration liberalizing trade with Europe, the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, appeared doomed.
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Therefore, the U.S. paper is a major step toward liberalizing digital trade and indicates that an effective WTO agreement on digital trade is very much possible.
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They said liberalizing global trade and importing cheaper intermediate goods improves competitiveness, helping firms keep their cutting edge over international rivals and lifting the country's exports.
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Mirziyoyev, a former prime minister, has pledged to open up the resource-rich nation after decades of near-isolation, liberalizing both the economic and political systems.
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"To improve rural poor's access to land, the only solution is liberalizing land leasing laws," he told the Thomson Reuters Foundation at a conference in New Delhi.
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Italy, like Japan, has a choice: find some way to push the economy into a higher gear or start liberalizing its immigration laws in a big way.
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The vote comes as nearby Ireland prepares to hold a referendum on May 25 on liberalizing its own abortion laws - some of the strictest in the world.
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This time, thanks to his appointments there are fewer bishops in opposition, and the synod's endgame is probably some ambiguously liberalizing statement on homosexuality, contraception or both.
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But he also refrained from calling for the liberalizing overhauls that earlier leaders like Deng Xiaoping used to bring China roaring growth in the 1980s and '90s.
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The battle's outcome could define Macron's presidency, with trade unions, already badly bruised by his success in liberalizing labor regulations last autumn, also needing to score a win.
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Analysts cite long term gains from a liberalizing of the US. market but also noted falling trade at U.K. high street locations and new rules on betting machines.
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Other jurisdictions are following suit or liberalizing their laws on medical or health use, creating an industry that has lured a breed of high-risk, high-return investors.
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Meanwhile, Ireland will hold a referendum on May 20143 on liberalizing its abortion law, the first opportunity in 22014 years to overhaul one of the world's strictest regimes.
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And under MBS, whom the international media lauded for being a liberalizing force, several women activists who advocated for lifting the ban were detained and remain in prison.
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Development projects would be left to the market, while we would continue to support liberalizing trade agreements that foster cross-border cultural and economic ties for mutual benefit.
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It's known as the "Stop Soros" law, a reflection of Orban's obsession with the liberalizing work of the Hungarian-American billionaire and philanthropist George Soros, who is Jewish.
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Most commentators have strenuously highlighted that Mr. Putin would remain in power after leaving the Kremlin, and are dismissive of any possible liberalizing effects of the suggested amendments.
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At her confirmation hearings to be deputy attorney general, Ms. Yates faced a grilling from Republicans who were furious about former President Barack Obama's order liberalizing immigration policy.
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Iran faces deep problems including corruption, a shortage of investment and a lack of productivity, but "all these problems can be solved through liberalizing the economy," he said.
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Exceptions for rape and incest date back to the years before Roe, when states began liberalizing their abortion bans to allow the procedure in certain cases, Ziegler said.
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"While attitudes about drug use in general are liberalizing labor rights are not," said Borst-Censullo, referencing the Colorado case, which had a chilling effect on policy advocates.
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In the UK, as in the US, such constituencies had suffered economic blight for decades -- ironically, many from liberalizing economic reforms introduced by the Conservatives in the 1980s.
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The following year, she and a group of lawyers challenged New York State's abortion law, which, according to the New York Times, is responsible for liberalizing abortions in 1970.
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In 22018, then-paramount leader Deng Xiaoping began liberalizing China's economy and one of his first reforms was to let struggling farmers sell excess produce to make a profit.
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Approval of the laws shows a willingness to risk political fallout from liberalizing immigration rules in order to ease a labor shortage that companies say could hurt future growth.
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Since then, however, Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has appeared to take the reigns on transforming the economy and society by introducing a raft of liberalizing reforms.
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DUBLIN — Ireland has voted overwhelmingly to ease restrictions on divorce, taking another step toward liberalizing a Constitution that was once dominated by the teachings of the Roman Catholic Church.
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Mr. Abe won office five years ago with promises of liberalizing the Japanese economy and making the country's industries more competitive, but critics say his efforts have fallen short.
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Their aim — much like their evangelical counterparts in the United States in the 1970s — was to resist liberalizing sexual and family values, especially policies related to abortion and homosexuality.
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But Deputy Finance Minister Miguel Messmacher told local radio that the government would propose liberalizing gasoline prices next year, instead of 2018 as was planned under a landmark energy reform.
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MINSK (Reuters) - Belarus has legalized transactions in crypto-currencies, part of a drive to foster private sector growth and attract foreign investment by liberalizing parts of its Soviet-style economy.
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And even if goods trade was totally liberalized, it might still be useful to have a written agreement on liberalizing trade in services, rather than a blank sheet, Azevedo said.
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The measure was backed by groups like the Marijuana Policy Project, long-time supporters of liberalizing marijuana rules, and by investors who see business opportunities in the legal marijuana market.
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Last week, Morocco's central bank postponed for "a few days" its planned announcement of the first phase of liberalizing the dirham, a key reform backed by the International Monetary Fund.
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Last week, China released draft rules for the trading of two-year government bond futures, a long-awaited step toward liberalizing rates at the short end of the yield curve.
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The Chinese knew their history too, which is why they kept a tight grip on political power even while liberalizing their economy, thus avoiding what they saw as Gorbachev's mistakes.
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If the abortion issue does eventually go to a referendum, latest opinion polls show that 76 percent of the population are in favour of liberalizing the law in some way.
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Last year, India overhauled rules governing its aviation industry, liberalizing norms for domestic carriers to fly overseas and incentivising air travel to smaller cities by capping air fares and opening airports.
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Throughout the 1990s, faith in the liberalizing power of commerce, and in Francis Fukuyama's thesis that the West's triumph over Soviet socialism heralded the "End of History," was at its height.
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Macron could go further and sell-down France's 14.3 percent stake in Air France-KLM, a move that would deliver a potent message that he is serious about liberalizing the economy.
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Bolsonaro's administration is made up of free market economists, statist former military generals, and religious ideologues, and it remains to be seen just how committed he is to liberalizing the economy.
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Like many cities in China's vast hinterland, it fell behind in the 1980s when the Communist leadership in Beijing began liberalizing the country's economy and opening up to the outside world.
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Last week, I warned a House Homeland Security Subcommittee that Islamist pressure groups were making it impossible for my fellow Muslims to do the crucial work of reforming and liberalizing Islam.
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Worse, however, is the signal these groups send to non-Muslims: that any criticism aimed at liberalizing aspects of the faith—even from Muslims themselves—is tantamount to bigotry and Islamophobia.
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While many of the criticisms of the rapid implementation of liberalizing market policies were justified, they rarely appreciated the context of the times or distinguished between positive reforms and negative ones.
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The EU ambassadors' report says the Initiative "runs counter to the EU agenda for liberalizing trade and pushes the balance of power in favor of subsidized Chinese companies," according to Handelsblatt.
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No major party in Poland supports liberalizing abortion laws, but the election of Law and Justice in 2015 brought a push to enforce existing laws and further limit women's reproductive choices.
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Still, some progress may be on the horizon in liberalizing the financial industry on the mainland, including plans to allow for majority foreign equity ownership in financial sector joint-venture firms.
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In part because of perceived self-interest: Francis needed allies, McCarrick was sympathetic to the pope's planned liberalizing push, and the pope wanted his help reshaping the ranks of American bishops.
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Natixis' Nguyen agreed that many of Duterte's proposed policies, such as liberalizing foreign direct investments and increasing infrastructure investment, should theoretically be positive news for investors - but Duterte's remarks were overshadowing them.
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Mirziyoyev's administration has also set about refocusing the judicial system from prosecution to protection of human rights, tackling corruption, liberalizing financial markets and creating a favorable environment for domestic and overseas investors.
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That means in his Davos speech, Xi "also has to indicate intentions in the future to continue liberalizing … objectives which the U.S. leaders and European leaders would want to support," Huang said.
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Elected in mid-2017 on a platform of liberalizing the economy, Macron has promised to press on with his reform program and overhaul French institutions in spite of the "yellow vest" crisis.
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A planned initial public offering of stock would therefore be a good way for investors to get their tentacles into a rapidly growing, and slowly liberalizing, market for consumer finance in China.
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Saudi Arabia's young Crown Prince Mohamed Bin Salman is liberalizing parts of Saudi society as part of a broader bid to attract foreign investment and reduce his country's dependence on oil revenues.
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NEW DELHI, Aug 28 (Reuters) - India's federal cabinet on Wednesday approved further liberalizing of foreign direct investment (FDI) rules in four sectors, in an effort to get economic growth back on track.
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A Conservative prime minister, Theresa May, is clinging to her position with the support of a small religious party, Northern Ireland's Democratic Unionists, who spent years denouncing the liberalizing legislation of 1967.
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One concern for China has been has been the rate of capital outflows, which has prompted some economists to suggest Beijing should temporarily back-pedal on liberalizing reforms and tighten capital controls.
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He has recently made some tentative steps towards liberalizing rules on foreign exchange and exit visas and has spoken of the need to rehabilitate those who have been "misled" by radical groups.
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A fast-growing economy, Addis Ababa plays a critical security role in the Horn of Africa, is home to the African Union, is liberalizing its economy and privatizing key sectors like telecom.
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He noted that Abe has proceeded with some structural reforms, such as liberalizing the retail electricity market and cutting the corporate tax rate, but labor and financial market reforms would be important ahead.
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Chinese leaders outlined initiatives after a policy meeting last October, where they reiterated goal of doubling GDP and incomes between 2010 and 2020 and committed to liberalizing the service sector to foreign investment.
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Beijing pushed the FTAAP in 2014 as a framework for liberalizing Pacific Rim trade and President Xi Jinping renewed calls for the pact over the weekend at the APEC CEO Summit in Peru.
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MSCI said on Tuesday it will not add domestic Chinese equities to its global emerging markets benchmark index, concluding that the country has more progress to make in sufficiently liberalizing its capital markets.
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"Illegal abortions bring with them serious risks, the complications of which we have to pay careful attention to," said Jailson Correia, Recife's health secretary, calling for a national debate on liberalizing the law.
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For China to take the risk of liberalizing during such a major economic transition, the U.S. should give China some certainty on tariff relief if China is implementing the agreement in good faith.
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Putin's slightly better arguments are over the enthusiastic support from the West of the liberalizing (but destructive) policies of the last Soviet leader, Mikhail Gorbachev and of the first Russian president, Boris Yeltsin.
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The first permanent theaters could open as early as March, part of a liberalizing reform drive that has already opened the door to concerts, comedy shows and women drivers over the past year.
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At the time, the Suharto-era government was liberalizing the entire sector, opening the door to anyone with at least Rp 10 billion [$695,000 USD] in assets to open a privately-owned bank.
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But the very act of indicating which ones should be saved in a disaster means that others may be allowed to fail: That's a step toward liberalizing a nearly $40 trillion banking industry.
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Two sources involved in the negotiations said that the Treasury has been contacting American technology firms to test their support for liberalizing export control laws to allow more high-tech exports to China.
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If he moves the church in a "liberalizing" direction like that shared by, say, Anglicans, he risks challenging what is distinctive about Catholicism in order to hold on to the would-be faithful.
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The kingdom has made progress in reducing red tape and liberalizing various sectors, investors say, and it has also seen growth in start-up accelerators and tech incubators, which now number at around 40.
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Only the reignition of liberalizing political, economic and social reforms and the adoption of a balanced, sober-minded foreign policy can restore Erdogan's once unbeatable reputation in Europe, the US and the Middle East.
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Few reform efforts have succeeded and many are stuck, including talks on cutting agricultural subsidies, increasing market access, reforming rules on access to medicines, improving the WTO dispute system and liberalizing trade in services.
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Tuesday's lurch toward government intervention marks a radical shift in the aviation policy of the Netherlands, which was the first country to sign a liberalizing Open Skies deal with the United States in 1992.
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Pressure starts to build for changeAs the Saudi state moves toward liberalizing its society — however slowly and unevenly — the beginnings of a backlash over the Dar Alreaya system can be seen in Saudi society.
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With Britain preparing to exit the bloc, he continued, European Union leaders were under pressure to show the 27 other states in the bloc that membership still has benefits, including gains from liberalizing trade.
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"They have always been an organic part of Uzbek society, and people here need them," said Sodiq Safoev, Uzbekistan's former ambassador to Washington and a close confidant of the liberalizing new Uzbek president, Shavkat Mirziyoyev.
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While short-term stimulus measures are likely to offset much of the impact, policymakers in the region could also mitigate the damage by liberalizing their own markets, particularly in the service sector, the IMF said.
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The Australian government has proposed liberalizing media ownership laws including removing the so-called "two out of three" rule, which prevents a single party from owning print, radio and television assets in the same market.
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Where once he seemed out of step with the liberalizing West, he now seems to be the vanguard of a new generation of leaders — in Turkey, Hungary, Italy and even America — who are challenging it.
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In my view, the hardest part of liberalizing patient data is that you have hundreds of thousands of hospitals and doctor offices all across the country who have a financial interest in keeping data private.
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Mr. Abe has made liberalizing trade a centerpiece of his economic agenda — a notable shift in a country that, despite its success exporting cars, electronics and other merchandise, had long shied away from trade deals.
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To Francis's critics, his unorthodox methods make him a dangerous figure for the future of the Catholic Church, one whose "liberalizing" tendencies and outspoken public persona set him apart from the methodical conservatism of Benedict XIV.
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While the 44-year-old senator tends to vote with center-left President Michelle Bachelet, parts of her party have dissented at times on issues such as strengthening labor laws and liberalizing Chile's strict abortion ban.
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Part of the fear driving those markets lower is that investors are struggling to understand the People's Bank of China's goals — with official statements pointing to an apparent policy struggle between conservative stability and liberalizing reform.
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The government has also continued to reform the legal framework for investing and establishing companies, liberalizing some of the junta-era restrictions on investment, and has created a bank of key projects it wants to implement.
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It includes a one percentage point increase in the highest rate of sales tax to 24 percent, higher taxes on coffee, alcohol, fuel and other goods and new rules liberalizing the market for nonperforming bank loans.
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These often estranged neighbors have been unsuccessfully talking for years about liberalizing their mutual trade relations — only to be sidetracked by a constant resurgence of bitter war memories, colonial humiliations, unsettled maritime borders and absurd rivalries.
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Mother Mary Angelica of the Annunciation, a cloistered Franciscan nun who founded the largest Roman Catholic television network in the country, and used it unstintingly to criticize liberalizing trends in the Catholic Church, died on Sunday.
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Related: Conservative Chile Moves to Legalize Abortion and Same-Sex Civil Unions They are the latest in a series of liberalizing moves in Colombia flying in the face of the country's deeply rooted socially conservative traditions.
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But even that kind of Kremlinology doesn't completely clarify the pope's intentions, which is why Francis's liberalizing allies are frequently impatient with him and sometimes get out ahead of his intentions and find themselves reined in.
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DUBLIN (Reuters) - Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar accused campaigners opposing a referendum on liberalizing Ireland's abortion regime of trying to dupe voters into thinking the government could still change the laws even if they voted 'No'.
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Still, the "spirit of Vatican II," or its overall ecumenical ethos, is cited by proponents and critics alike to refer to post-Vatican-II liberalizing tendencies that exceed the remit of Vatican II's more narrow reforms.
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After 2650-2000/22014 years in power, Renzi can point to some achievements - such as liberalizing rigid labor rules, granting legal protection to same-sex couples and offering a series of small-scale tax cuts to workers.
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The first theaters could start showing films as early as March, the government said, part of a liberalizing reform drive that has already opened the door to concerts, comedy shows, and women drivers over the past year.
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NEW DELHI (Reuters) - The Indian government on Friday said it will consider further liberalizing foreign direct investment (FDI) rules in certain sectors, part of its efforts to make Asia's third-largest economy a more attractive investment destination.
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On Wednesday late evening, India's federal cabinet approved further liberalizing of foreign direct investment (FDI) rules in digital media, coal mining, associated infrastructure and sales of fuels in an attempt to get economic growth back on track.
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While Ireland voted to legalize abortion last year, Northern Ireland — which is part of the United Kingdom — has shown no signs of liberalizing its draconian laws, allowing the procedure only when the mother's life is in danger.
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While Ireland voted to legalize abortion last year, Northern Ireland — which is part of the United Kingdom — has shown no signs of liberalizing its draconian laws, allowing the procedure only when the mother's life is in danger.
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Opinion Columnist Some years ago, when I was younger and somewhat more excitable, I wrote a series of essays about Pope Francis's liberalizing efforts, arguing that the supreme pontiff's choices risked a schism in the Catholic Church.
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To reject pluralism and liberalizing progress is to reject the United States of America as it is, to heap contempt upon American heroes who shed blood and tears fighting for the liberty and equality of their compatriots.
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To reject pluralism and liberalizing progress is to reject the United States of America as it is, to heap contempt upon American heroes who shed blood and tears fighting for the liberty and equality of their compatriots.
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The country, long closed off from the outside world, has taken a first step by liberalizing its foreign exchange market, bringing a surge in machinery and equipment imports for industries that are still state-owned and centrally planned.
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But the consensus view of the American establishment was that economic integration between China and the West — and China obtaining prosperity through the adoption of western technology — would at least directionally shift Chinese politics in a liberalizing direction.
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Countries like Russia and China have little interest in liberalizing their drug policies, while Indonesia spoke out at Tuesday's UNGASS meeting to insist that the UN has no business interfering with its policy of executing some drug traffickers.
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Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross told CNBC on Monday that he saw signs that Saudi Arabia continues "liberalizing their society" and relaxing some of the restrictions on women under the strict interpretation of Islamic law that rules the kingdom.
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Then he launches into a disjointed diatribe about the liberalizing agenda within law enforcement, media bias against cops, and the public's ignorance of case law that "protects the police officer" from unfair scrutiny in use-of-force situations.
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The PBOC and the State Administration of Foreign Exchange control the size of investment quotas and have played a central role in liberalizing the country's $81 billion Qualified Foreign Institutional Investor (QFII) scheme and its yuan equivalent, RQFII.
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Alina Polyakova, an expert on far-right populism in Europe at the Brookings Institution in Washington, said that Mr. Putin was offering to protect national identity against what are viewed as the threats of a liberalizing global world.
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The series tracks Catherine over the course of her 34-year reign, as she evolves from an idealistic, vulnerable usurper warding off enemies on all sides into a tyrannical autocrat who no longer dreams of liberalizing the country.
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Yu, who for years has called for liberalizing the yuan's exchange rate over years, said China should give up foreign exchange interventions and safeguard its foreign exchange reserves so that China will "have sufficient ammunition" for future rainy days.
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"European carbon traders hedge their power contracts as much as five years ahead, whereas China depends on progress in liberalizing its energy market in order to drive hedge trading by local utilities," said a trader in an international company.
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"The aim seems to be to fuel money to build new gas infrastructure, rather than focus on liberalizing the gas market and on diversifying gas supplies," said Martin Vladimirov with independent think-tank Center for the Study of Democracy.
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DUBLIN (Reuters) - Irish voters who favor liberalizing the country's abortion laws increased their lead in two opinion polls published on Sunday, reversing a trend that suggested the race had begun to tighten ahead of the final days of campaigning.
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Weed. When state legislation liberalizing medical cannabis use passed in 2015—starting next year, Texas residents with intractable epilepsy will be able to access low-THC/high-CBD oil—Lori Strubbe knew it was time to make a move.
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DUBLIN (Reuters) - Irish voters who favor liberalizing the country's abortion laws maintain a strong lead with five weeks to go until a referendum despite a slip in support over the last three months, an opinion poll showed on Friday.
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When Mr. Roginsky was released, the Soviet Union was celebrating the emergence of Mr. Gorbachev, whose liberalizing programs, known as perestroika and glasnost, had lifted press censorship and fostered a new debate about the darkest pages of Soviet history.
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The narrative of America's liberalizing fiction is a convenient one because the United States not only accepted the prevalence of totalitarian dictators in the region and elsewhere, but also abetted and fostered them in the pursuit of its interests.
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The Saudi government announced on Monday that the first theaters could start showing films as early as March, part of a liberalizing reform drive that has opened the door to concerts, comedy shows and women drivers in the past year.
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Now the question is, what are you -- the issue is to try to get the governments to move as quickly as possible toward liberalizing markets, toward allowing people to have some freedom of pricing, of the products they decide to produce.
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BUENOS AIRES, March 21 (Reuters) - Argentina will tell Brazil it wants to maintain a cap on Brazilian car imports for at least another year, the Clarin newspaper reported on Monday, dealing a blow to its neighbor's hope of liberalizing the trade.
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In the run-up to the two meetings, Beijing flagged 1.8 million job losses in the country's' bloated coal and steel industries, setting the stage for a slew of announcements about economic reforms from tackling over-capacity to liberalizing foreign investment.
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MSCI declined to add domestic Chinese stocks to one of its key benchmarks, concluding that Beijing had more work to do in liberalizing capital markets and delivering a blow to Chinese policymakers hoping to broaden the appeal of their currency.
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While Moody's is looking for either an increased or stable pace of reform, some doubt just how serious Beijing is about changing up its economy — given the short-term societal costs that would be associated with liberalizing state-dominated markets.
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Beyond the plans for institutional reform, which had been outlined in his campaign manifesto, there were few concrete announcements and no specifics on the far more controversial measures that he plans, most notably in liberalizing a highly regulated labor market.
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While there is progress – last year, King Salman decreed that Saudi women will no longer need a man's permission to travel, study or make police complaints — there is still some resistance to change with not everyone happy with the liberalizing moves.
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While Morocco has been liberalizing its economy since the 1990s, selling off government assets and reducing barriers to foreign investment, the threat to the communal lands intensified in 2004 when it signed the Morocco Free Trade Agreement with the United States.
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Opinion polls have put those who favor liberalizing one of the world's most restrictive regimes in a clear lead and while there has been some tightening in the margin, two surveys on Sunday showed the 'Yes' side pulling further ahead.
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Asked if he wanted the summit to agree a statement condemning protectionism, he said the WTO was against protectionism and in favor of liberalizing trade, but it was up to the G20 leaders to decide the language of any declaration.
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Interestingly, it was MBS's rise a couple of years ago that seemed to be creating a new narrative: a young prince who was letting women drive, bringing in music and culture, liberalizing the economy, and moving against a hard line.
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The government's handling of the case also serves as a reminder that while Beijing may be slowly liberalizing its hard-line stance toward things like its one-child policy, it still has a long way to go on gay rights.
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That prompted debate over how to manage the oil price fall, between reformers who see a chance to open up an economy still reliant on oil and gas, and, analysts say, an older guard cautious on liberalizing a mostly state-controlled system.
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At the same time, conservatives fleeing liberalizing states (California in particular) have moved into the valleys outside those cities, which have been parceled up among Republicans far more ideologically conservative (and, generally speaking, outwardly religious) than those who've been here for generations.
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After World War II, the U.S. led the rebuilding of a secure, liberal and prosperous "core" bound by institutions like NATO and Bretton Woods which extended from the Iron Curtain in the East across North America to liberalizing states in Eastern Asia.
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Another election could be destabilizing for Turkey after four votes in the past two years, a political cycle which polarized the electorate and slowed progress on badly needed economic reforms such as liberalizing the labor market and cutting red tape for investors.
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"When the government kills a protected species, the perceived value of each individual of that species may decline; so liberalizing wolf culling may have sent a negative message about the value of wolves or acceptability of poaching," the researchers wrote in the study.
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Crown Prince Mohammed, 32, is unapologetically authoritarian, and his defenders argue that top-down authoritarianism is the only way to modernize the conservative kingdom, whether by gradually opening up more freedoms for women or by liberalizing the economy to attract foreign investment.
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Indeed, a virtual cult began to develop around him after Time magazine put his portrait, as an "angry young man," on its cover in April 1962 and printed a laudatory article about him as a leading spirit in a changing, liberalizing Russia.
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There is also no evidence that Reagan's "rollback" policy – which sought to aggressively challenge communist movements throughout the world, from Central America to Afghanistan and Africa – had an iota of influence on the liberalizing reforms that catalyzed the collapse of the Soviet Union.
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U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday ordered tighter restrictions on Americans traveling to Cuba and a clampdown on U.S. business dealings with the Caribbean island's military, saying he was cancelling former President Barack Obama's "terrible and misguided deal" liberalizing ties with Havana.
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While praised by international financial bodies for liberalizing Egypt's economy and improving growth figures for the economy of 98 million people, many rights groups have called el-Sissi worse than Mubarak in terms of his treatment of human rights and civil liberties.
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"There is a fair amount of evidence that Kim Jong-un has accepted that the North Korean economy is, if not liberalizing, then there is a bottom-up marketization occurring and he has to accept that in order to survive," Ms. Ashford said.
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China promises great opening, businesses see great wallBeijing has some way to go to convince foreign businesses that it is serious about liberalizing China's economy, despite President Xi Jinping's speech at Davos on Tuesday and new proposals to relax restrictions on foreign investment.
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The GCA is part of a drive by Prince Mohammed to diversify the economy and capture more Saudi leisure spending at home, as the kingdom introduces a range of liberalizing reforms intended to plug a budget deficit caused by low oil prices.
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Almost a decade into a bloody drug war fought against and between Mexico's drug cartels, there is suddenly a real possibility that the country could soon contribute to the wave of liberalizing new laws on weed that is gathering force in Latin America.
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Graham also said he felt "used and abused" for being expected to ignore the disappearance and likely death of Khashoggi, a US permanent resident who wrote a column for the Washington Post and who'd been openly skeptical of Mohammed's public image as a liberalizing reformer.
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"There's no question that they're liberalizing their society, and I think the other thing that was fascinating to me, there was not a single hint of a protester anywhere there during the whole time we were there," Ross told CNBC's Becky Quick on Monday.
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Nevertheless, it is undeniable that China is much richer as a whole than it used to be, and this is largely thanks to the economic reform, including lowering its tariffs and liberalizing some sectors of the economy, that accompanied China's accession to the WTO.
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Latin America's largest emitters have pursued a number of effective emission-reduction strategies, including reducing energy subsidies, redesigning dated tariff systems, liberalizing power markets, creating national energy efficiency initiatives and building liquified natural gas (LNG) import infrastructure to back up hydro and renewable power.
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Bots posted O.S.F. e-mails on social media, revealing, for example, the foundation's donation to an Irish N.G.O. ahead of a referendum on liberalizing Ireland's abortion laws, providing fodder for critics who claimed that the foundation was trying to influence elections in foreign countries.
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The funeral pyre of King Bhumibol, or Rama IX, is the largest since that of Rama IV. King Bhumibol is often credited with foiling a Communist movement during the Cold War, liberalizing the Thai economy and keeping the country together despite its often-fractious politics.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - China's central province of Hunan from April 1 will no longer set prices for natural gas used by vehicles, state-run Hunan Daily said, the latest region to fall in line with years-long Beijing-led reforms and start liberalizing its gas market.
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The 33-year-old son of King Salman, known for his assertive foreign policy, liberalizing reforms and aggressive bombing campaign over neighboring Yemen, is arguably the region's most powerful leader and enjoys a warm personal relationship with Trump and his advisor and son-in-law Jared Kushner.
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I was there, I went off in the '90s, and they were liberalizing the pricing in one sector after another with huge economic gains that brought -- you know, China has lifted 850 million people out of poverty, which is hugely helpful to the rest of the world.
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Although greater than the number of barriers being erected, the new trade-liberalizing 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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Liberalizing the UK As prime minister, Wilson oversaw a number of historic moves that liberalized the United Kingdom, including the abolition of the death penalty, the legalization of abortion, the introduction of the Equal Pay Act, the outlawing of racial discrimination, and the initial decriminalization of homosexuality.
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What's new is the liberalizing of the country's mores on topics like drugs, with growing parts of both the left and the right pursuing criminal justice reforms that treat drug addiction like more of a business problem to be solved than an industry to be eradicated.
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"While you are unleashing socially liberalizing and economically modernizing forces that call on, and appeal to, the West — and which must appeal to the West — you're trying to contain that with a political crackdown that is completely unacceptable and alienating to most Western audiences," he said.
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Going into 2020, Trump has clearly decided to continue and expand upon his 2016 strategy of mobilizing white voters high in anti-black affect, strongly opposed to immigration and resistant to liberalizing social mores — just as Democrats are aiming to turn out Obama voters who sat out 2016.
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Wilkinson does not share this outlook: To the extent that increasing economic security is liberalizing, and stagnation and decline tend toward an illiberal, zero-sum survival mind-set, this amounts to a recipe for the political imposition of relatively illiberal policy on increasingly liberal and increasingly economically powerful cities.
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With the Federal Reserve committed to price stability, the next administration could do wonders for the economy — especially in the long run — if it concentrates on strengthening property rights, liberalizing international trade, removing government impediments to competition, shrinking the size and scope of government and enacting pro-growth tax reform.
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These groups may have differed on specific policy positions, but they were animated by a common goal: to preserve a certain way of life — far from the liberalizing influences of urban areas — that could resist attempts on the part of the (Obama-led) federal government to interfere in their lives and beliefs.
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A more diverse crude diet would allow Pemex to reach the goal of producing 60-70 percent of distillates versus 50 percent in recent years, just as the country is liberalizing fuel prices at gas stations amid an energy reform that will give foreign refiners and retailers a portion of market share.
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After decades of free-trade orthodoxy, there has been growing resistance to further liberalizing the movement of goods, services, capital and labor, fueled by fears that the benefits have flowed disproportionately to corporations, investors and well-educated workers — and that the harm to less-educated workers has outweighed the benefits to consumers.
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In 1992 the last colonial government of Hong Kong amended it to bring it in line with international human rights law, but this move was reversed once China assumed control of the territory, one of several liberalizing reforms thrown out by the provisional legislative council, an appointed body stacked with pro-Beijing figures.
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As a report published earlier this month by the Atlantic Council shows, for Europe to continue to play its part in the transatlantic alliance, European leaders must move quickly to strengthen their economies through bold steps such as liberalizing their domestic markets and providing an investment boost that could break the unemployment stalemate.
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At the same time that MBS is both liberalizing Saudi society and quashing any form of possible dissent, he has also embarked on an ambitious plan known as Vision 2030 for weaning the Saudi economy from its almost entire dependence on oil and its citizens from their almost entire dependence on the state.
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But as long as Kim Jong-un has this power that he inherited and has greatly amplified by such things as assassinating his brother -- half-brother with V.X. nerve agent, executing his uncle, people who had ideas about liberalizing North Korea, by the way, he has had murdered, it really isn&apost going to change.
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In a note to clients, entitled "Let's analyse our fears", Torsten Slok of Deutsche Bank puts markets on the analyst's couch before concluding that The bottom line is that I see the recent turbulence out of China as temporary issues related to liberalizing their economy and not driven by a hard landing scenario playing out.
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In 1992 the last colonial government of Hong Kong amended the directive to bring it in line with international human rights law, but this move was reversed once China assumed control of the territory, one of several liberalizing reforms thrown out by the provisional legislative council, an appointed body stacked with pro-Beijing figures.
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In the early 0003s, critics began to lament the supposed loss of these neighborhoods, citing "late-stage gentrification, the global circulation of capital, changes in the flow of migration, liberalizing attitudes toward homosexuality, social acceptance and assimilation, and the normalization of geo-coded mobile apps (which have altered how places facilitate social and sexual connections)," Ghaziani writes.
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"Many of the EU's liberalizing achievements are due to the role the U.K. has played, with like-minded countries, for example in pushing for the single market program, the liberalization of goods and services markets, and enlargement to 28 countries," according to Simon Hix, professor of political science at the London School of Economics and Political Science.
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States had begun liberalizing their abortion laws in the 1960s, and in 1972, strategists for Richard Nixon's presidential campaign used anti-abortion messages "to present Nixon to all Americans as a cultural conservative who stood for the preservation of traditional roles and values," Linda Greenhouse and Reva B. Siegel write in their book Before Roe v. Wade.
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No one had more confidence in the liberalizing effects of technology than the tech companies themselves: Twitter was, in one executive's words, "the free speech wing of the free speech party"; Facebook wanted to make the world more open and connected; Google, cofounded by a refugee from the Soviet Union, wanted to organize the world's information and make it accessible to all.
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Peña Nieto's last-minute decision to participate in the meeting appears to underline that, while his government may support some tame liberalizing measures and play lip service to the need for a new focus, it is still committed to a strategy widely blamed for fueling the violence and fomenting human rights abuses, at the same time as the flow of drugs continues.
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Three days after California became the sixth state to legalize recreational marijuana, Attorney General Jeff SessionsJefferson (Jeff) Beauregard SessionsDOJ should take action against China's Twitter propaganda Lewandowski says he's 'happy' to testify before House panel The Hill's Morning Report — Trump and the new Israel-'squad' controversy MORE announced he was ending a policy that deferred to states liberalizing their marijuana laws.
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"Nevertheless, if you look at the latest spat between Greece and the Eurogroup, only two of the 15 "prior actions" (targets that need to be met to release bailout aid) have actually been completed on time by Greece and those are based around liberalizing the energy market and putting in place new governance for the banking sector and sorting out tax revenues," he said.
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Basically, US policy under President Barack Obama took an optimistic look at China's future and sought to engage with its business sector by pouring in investments and allowing China to do the same in the US. Obama's foreign-policy and trade aides insisted that trading with China would lead to positive outcomes, like China somewhat liberalizing and being a constructive member of international institutions, Chorzempa said.
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So in Germany, where the church is rich and sterile and half-secularized, the Francis era has offered a permission slip to proceed with various liberalizing moves, from communion for the remarried to intercommunion with Protestants — while across the Oder in Poland the bishops are proceeding as if John Paul II still sits upon the papal throne and his teaching is still fully in effect.
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The Koreans were willing to accept this quota because Korean producers may actually benefit; now that they have avoided the tariffs, their sales to the U.S. will now be at higher prices, and they may find other markets for their steel to replace the lost volume in the U.S. On autos, the administration appears to have negotiated one outcome that looks like trade liberalizing on paper, although in practice it may not have much impact.
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For example, Abe's administration managed to push through some liberalizing measures for the tightly controlled agriculture sector, with the promise of more to come to comply with TPP, in part by dangling the prospect of access to large export markets such as the U.S. Reforming the agriculture sector has long been politically unpalatable in Japan, even though it's widely believed to be necessary in a country where food prices are considered relatively high because of the segment's inefficiencies.
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