Even the most informed of us know little about how fast "reform" is being imposed.
A big one is why voters last month dumped a government that had become a byword in the region (and the world) for fast reform and economic success.
Economists are calling for faster reforms.
She wants faster reforms, for example in energy, plus the sacking of incompetent ministers.
But at the same time, because there is escalating violence it is not realistic to do it," he said referring to implementing faster reforms.
It is high time for slower growth and faster reforms to stop the rot from spreading.Simon Rabinovitch: Asia economics editor, The Economist.
Intellectuals calling for more democracy face isolation and house arrest, Buddhist leaders are harassed, senior Communists pressing for faster reforms face persecution.
The situation came to a head last autumn when opposition activists planned a large rally for November 10 to push the government into faster reforms.
NEW DELHI — Leaders of five emerging world economic powers convened on Thursday for a one-day diplomatic meeting, pledging to expand mutual trade while urging faster reforms of the Western-dominated global financial system.
The demonstration was to call for faster reforms by a government that has been led for the past 28 years by President Maumoon Gayoom and has been the subject of criticism by Amnesty International over its human rights record.
