The president's frequent foreign jaunts have featured places such as Cuba, Libya and Syria; in global and regional trade talks, Brazil has led a charge against rich-country trade barriers but has seemed equally reluctant to liberalise itself.
And the government's liberalising drive is making itself felt in many areas of Italian life.
Offering India its first modern car for 30 years, Maruti quickly became pre-eminent in the mid-1980s.Special report A global love affair Theme and variations The home team Pile them high Kings of the road The art of the possible ReprintsAs the market was gradually liberalised, Tata found itself courted first by Honda and then by VW and Toyota.
Back in 2008, it was received not only as an astute political use of new media technologies, but as the apotheosis of the internet itself as a liberalising force.
But as ASEAN's leaders gather in Phnom Penh, capital of Cambodia, for their annual summit between November 18th and 20th, Myanmar, liberalising and opening up, finds itself flavour of the month in the West.
In an effort to reposition itself regionally and to promote itself economically, Macao liberalised the gaming industry in 2002, which had until then been a family-run monopoly.
Hayek's views became more respectable, informing the liberalising, privatising governments of Margaret Thatcher.It is here that the book begins to overreach itself.
Why, then, reason many Indians, should their country handicap itself with a stubbornly strong exchange rate.On the other hand, India has spent at least 15 years tentatively opening its capital account and liberalising its financial markets.
He initially supported the liberalising Second Vatican Council.
Telecoms, energy and shipping need liberalising.
