However we think the government has missed an opportunity to liberalise the rules on who is eligible for social care, meaning that an estimated 235,000 older people will continue to be outside the system and need to either pay for care themselves, receive it from friends and families – or go without.
Although the OECD currently allows donors – in a limited manner – to use aid to subsidise private companies or investment, these reforms will essentially "liberalise the rules", potentially resulting in "less money for health, education and public services", warned Jesse Griffiths, director of the European Network on Debt and Development (Eurodad).
Instead of liberalising the law, the government intends to license all live entertainment with what is essentially a none-in-the-bar rule.
Since he succeeded Fidel in 2008, Castro has put the island on the path of China-style reform: gradually liberalising the economy, lifting travel restrictions and engaging former adversaries, but all the while ensuring the continuity of one-party rule.
Thanks, George Osborne, for liberalising the parameters of boring.
Raising interest rates without liberalising the economy might suffocate it.
However, even Poland's main opposition party, the Civic Platform, has opposed liberalising the abortion law.
The latest reforms include cutting corporate regulations and liberalising the labour market.
There remains stiff opposition to liberalising the market, not least from the British Transplantation Society BTSS).
Businessmen, less cowed than in the past, want him to move faster with liberalising the economy.
