Related: WikiLeaks publishes secret draft chapter of Trans-Pacific Partnership Even those who favour opening up markets and liberalising trade oppose the TPP, since its backroom process inherently privileges incumbent industries, giving the largest companies even more market share and more power to set policies that stifle competition and innovation.
He also pushed through the North American Free Trade Agreement (Nafta), liberalising trade between the US, Mexico and Canada, which sent many jobs south of the border where unions and regulations are weaker and pay is cheaper.
He added: "Lukashenko tried to make cosmetic changes and pretend he was liberalising Belarus - but he slipped back into his old, repressive ways".
Since the Islamic Revolution, statist Iran has been greatly overtaken by liberalising Turkey, its big rival to the north-west.
They want this round, aimed at liberalising trade, to be launched at the Doha meeting in Qatar.A new trade round involves many more countries than those represented at Genoa.
Can a government that relies for its parliamentary majority on the votes of two Communist parties pursue liberalising economic reform?
It has learned, however, from Japan's mistakes, and is gradually liberalising the use of its currency.
These in turn have justified a wider crackdown that has effectively if not yet completely silenced even the secular critics whose hopes for liberalising reforms inspired Egypt's brief spring.Egypt's government may succeed in snuffing out dissent, just as the regimes in Iraq, Syria and elsewhere may eventually achieve Algeria-like solutions.
Claims by some donor groups and international lenders notwithstanding, African countries have made negligible progress liberalising their economies in recent years.
Although everybody now agrees that emerging economies must be careful about liberalising capital flows, there is a division between those who emphasise the benefits of capital freedom and those who rail at the costs.
But the biggest poverty-reduction measure of all is liberalising markets to let poor people get richer.
