Liberalization of price controls in the early 1990s led to a marked rise in prices.
Governments now face numerous challenges that are often captured under the term globalization or capital mobility: the move to floating exchange rates, the political liberalization of capital controls, and technological and financial innovation.
Thus, regulation is not necessarily the antonym of free markets or liberalization (relaxation of government controls).
If any of the suggested pathways, or the above-mentioned promise of the WTO, hold, it should be possible to quantify any positive or negative effect of trade liberalization on TB control and the progress towards MDG 6.
Monetary reform kept inflation under control, and liberalization of the domestic economy quickly returned the market mechanisms to the centre of the industrial, agricultural, and commercial activities.
As a condition of receiving loans, borrowing countries were required to implement stringent "structural adjustment programs," which typically included severe cuts in spending for health and education, the elimination of price controls, the liberalization of trade, the deregulation of the financial sector, and the privatization of state-run enterprises.
The response of imports to the liberalization of trade and exchange rate controls has been fast, significant and spread across a wide variety of products.
Although religion has weakened as a social control mechanism, even today liberalization of sex laws and relaxation of censorship have often been successfully opposed by religious leaders.
Yet for all the gridlock at the federal level and the success of gun liberalization, reasonable gun control has actually made great strides at the state level in recent years.
Their policy on trade liberalization, spending control and welfare reform looks pretty good".
This process might include the liberalization of economic activity (e.g., removing price controls), reducing regulation, and opening the system for market-based allocation of resources.
