It might make more sense to deregulate premiums and charge residents of hurricane alley full freight.
After 1991, when a balance-of-payments crisis led India to deregulate, the central bank rediscovered its spine.
But Germany's politicians are far keener to denounce deficits than to deregulate domestic services.
This, in turn, will require governments to deregulate capital and product markets to encourage new businesses.
Governments have also failed to deregulate services, which would help to spur domestic demand.
Despite its efforts to deregulate, the government cannot seem to relinquish its role in the economy.
So long as they continue to innovate, and governments to deregulate, railways have nothing to fear from the future.
In fact, if there is a conspiracy, it is a conspiracy to deregulate.
After a long struggle, the labour ministry has at last caved in to demands to deregulate the temporary-employment agencies.
One obvious remedy would be to deregulate the distribution of coal, argues N.
EU, there are moves afoot to deregulate them in order to give greater choice to consumers and greater flexibility to lenders.
It makes sense, suggest some officials, to use this opportunity to help Indonesia's reformers to deregulate the economy and combat corruption.
In 1998 most European Union countries plan to deregulate their domestic telecoms markets, allowing upstarts to compete with entrenched national monopolies.
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The medicine for these ills is simple to prescribe, but painfully hard to administer: structural reforms to deregulate labour and product markets.
Perhaps most promising of all is a proposal to deregulate medical care, allowing private companies for the first time into the business.
The administration could usefully push for better co-ordination of state-led efforts to deregulate electricity (some of which, happily, have fared much better than California's).
But the new political willingness to deregulate goes only so far.
Mr Eves's Tory predecessor had begun to deregulate electricity.
But his message is ignored by politicians, possibly because he also asks them to deregulate the economy (anathema to their big-business donors) and encourage more women and older people into the workforce.
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Mr Lafontaine resists most of the policies that might reduce unemployment, which is Germany's biggest worry: he is loth to take swift action to deregulate the labour market, shrink the state and cut taxes.
Premier Wen spoke of the need to improve the security of rural land rights and the need to deregulate the financial sector by finding a way to legalize what is now an underground finance market.
Take telecoms: China's early decision to deregulate the sector and break up the state monopoly into four competing firms two fixed-line (China Telecom and China Netcom) and two mobile (China Mobile and China Unicom) was widely admired.
His health advisers would also like to deregulate the health-insurance market, freeing it from the stifling rules, imposed at state level, that can raise the cost of an insurance plan by as much as 15%.
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INCAE, which acts as a sort of reform secretariat, ministers are devising common strategies to deregulate, attract investment, reform their pension schemes and, more conventionally, to join electricity grids and telecoms networks, and to build roads.
But no such combination would promise real reform either of taxes or of anything else and Germany still needs to revamp its pension and health systems (despite recent tinkerings), to deregulate business and labour, and to sell off more state assets.
And on the other end of the spectrum, and this is what a lot of the Republicans are saying right now, there are those who simply believe that the answer is to unleash the insurance industry, to deregulate them further, provide them less oversight and fewer rules.
One plan involves lobbying the central government to deregulate airfares so that the local tourist industry can take off. (Just see what Hawaii has done since American air fares were deregulated.) Another proposal is to provide tax breaks for manufacturers who import components and then re-export the finished goods.
But in a country where indicators ranging from economic growth to the ruble's exchange rate are largely dictated by the volatile energy and metals prices, investors are seeking greater consistency in the government's campaign against corruption and illegal business practices, its plans to deregulate utility prices, and its efforts to lower administrative barriers that make life difficult for all but the largest companies.
We seek to fully deregulate natural gas to bring on new supplies and bring us closer to energy independence.
Full coffers give governments little incentive to privatise, deregulate or make public accounts transparent, all long-standing demands of both foreign and local investors.
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