Key reforms that would open up the country's financial sector such as the liberalization of interest rates and the opening of the capital account have been put on the back burner, and the timeline for their realization is uncertain.
Even less tractable is Russia's territorial dispute with Japan, the obvious country to open up the Russian east for development.
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These were pretty drastic steps, with complicated consequences, but they do not seem to have caused the heavens to open up over Iceland, to wipe the country from the face of the earth (unless you're counting all those erupting volcanoes).
As for economic policy in general, the newcomers promise to open the country up and make it friendlier to business.
Your suite comes complete with a king-size bed, a wet bar for your pinot grigio, bathrooms with double marble vanities, sitting areas and windows that open up to the sweet wine country air.
Dani made a quarter of a million dollars that first year just by selling the weight loss program, was a millionaire by the second year and went on to open up 18 weight loss centers around the country.
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Emelonye says he hopes the movie, along with promoting civil aviation safety in Nigeria, will open up his country's burgeoning film industry to a wider audience, dismissing the low-quality tag that's often attached to Nollywood productions.
But further steps to open up the economy may face political opposition within the country's governing coalition.
We were into open country now, running straight up the coast about a mile from the ocean on a two-lane blacktop road across the dunes with no clouds in the sky and a full moon blazing down on the Pacific.
While the renewed fighting is troubling for a fragile, multi-ethnic country that has just begun to open up after decades of isolation, the unrest spells particular risk for Asian energy firms.
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But Mr Habibie and, especially, the army, fear a referendum would open up the question of Indonesian sovereignty in many other parts of a country of 200m people and more than 17, 000 islands.
Left-of-centre Greeks voted for Syriza both to punish Pasok for impoverishing the country and because Syriza opposes reforms that would open up closed-shop professions in a bid to make Greece more competitive.
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That's why it is so important for me to open up these doors, to have you guys come from all over the country to sit in the same chairs that kings and queens and ambassadors and senators have sat in, right?
And we are confident now that a free trade agreement would be good for our country, would create jobs here in the United States, open up new markets with potential for billions of dollars of cross-border trade.
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But its future in this country is in peril unless we take steps to reduce barriers and open up the game.
This should generate 5, 250MW when finished, increasing electricity production in the country fivefold, providing a surplus for export and allowing Ethiopia to open up as a manufacturer.
Mr Ralls said he also hoped to open up Bridgnorth's steam works, where volunteer staff repaired historic steam engines, for other heritage lines across the country.
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