That generally means nitty-gritty topics such as education reform, economic liberalisation and improved governance.
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So far, the benefits of this economic liberalisation are visible mainly in cities.
Economic liberalisation has earned praise from, and profits for, Egypt's rising business class.
France will also oppose further economic liberalisation, in direct opposition to the commission.
As chief minister of West Bengal, he realised that economic liberalisation and the rise of China were making old orthodoxies redundant.
Few of today's advocates of capital restrictions would like to see an end to the broader process of financial and economic liberalisation.
His career took off during the first wave of Cuban economic liberalisation.
That partly reflects the fact that the economic liberalisation nudged forward by Muhammad Khatami, Mr Ahmadinejad's timidly liberalising predecessor, has been halted.
There are also plenty of opponents of unfettered economic liberalisation in Barcelona.
Good for promoting a programme of economic liberalisation, say the king's friends.
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Mouloud Hamrouche, a former prime minister, says that many of the current regime's senior officials resisted his attempts at economic liberalisation in the late 1980s.
But Mrs Gandhi also needs various left-wing parties, some of which are Congress's electoral enemies and all of which reject its record of tepid economic liberalisation.
In short, the Broad Front stands for a distinctively Uruguayan brand of socialism, a mix of protest against the country's limited economic liberalisation and nostalgia for better times.
This setback for economic liberalisation comes at a bad time.
India's economic liberalisation is also younger: just six years old.
He wrote his degree thesis on the history of Christianity and is best known as the minister who, in the most recent centre-left government, sponsored a programme of economic liberalisation.
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Egypt's successful economic liberalisation, too, bears his imprimatur.
Such signs of resistance to economic liberalisation, compounded recently by concerns over tight liquidity and a rigid exchange rate, have dampened both retail and stock markets, as well as the foreign investment that Egypt badly needs.
His country gave birth to the Lisbon agenda of 2000, an attempt to push forward the process of economic reform and liberalisation across Europe.
The industry is one of several spared the early rigours of the single market, because the social and economic consequences of liberalisation were so great.
Mr Aznar is campaigning on a record of Spain's solid economic growth, steady liberalisation and political stability, achieved despite governing for four years with a minority in parliament, backed by the main nationalist (and non-violent) parties in Catalonia and (for most of the time) in the Basque region.
But he was also a pro-market reformer, and he was increasingly to emphasise privatisation and liberalisation in his economic policies.
The summit opened on the same day as the Millennium Round of talks organised by the World Trade Organisation (WTO) began in Seattle, US. The WTO is expected to agree a new round of global trade liberalisation talks in several economic sectors, including that of the internet.
Mr Clinton's economic team, led by Bob Rubin and Larry Summers at Treasury, is by and large supportive of trade liberalisation, whereas the labour-union base of the Democratic Party is hostile.
With the oil price falling, stronger economic ties to the West could help to create a business constituency inside Russia that sees the need for greater liberalisation to keep the economy growing.
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