Most countries liberalized their policies to attract all kinds of investment from multinational corporations.
In the span of 48 hours we have apparently moved from a socialist hellhole only a few degrees removed from arresting and murdering journalists to one of the most radically liberalized and alt-media friendly jurisdictions in North America.
Most economists see liberalizing trade as a benefit to the economy.
Prices of most goods were liberalized, and some state-owned enterprises were privatized.
"The fact here is that, despite the reluctance of most governments to liberalize their domestic labor markets, economic forces have done the job on their behalf," Eric Chaney, an economist at Morgan Stanley Dean Witter in London, wrote in a report in late October.
German air transport is actually governed by two fundamentally different market regimes which belong to different geographical areas of the world: While intra-EU air transport as well as some other markets are fully liberalized, most air transport links with the rest of the world are still subject to regulation by restrictive air service agreements.
Shortly after independence in August 1991, the Ukrainian Government liberalized most prices and erected a legal framework for privatization, but widespread resistance to reform within the government and the legislature soon stalled reform efforts and led to some backtracking.
At the end of 1994, the Government eliminated import licensing for onions, bananas and potatoes, and liberalized most horticultural product markets as well as those for inputs (particularly seeds, fertilizers and pesticides).
Traditionally, the United States has been the most reluctant Cocom member on liberalizing trade.
Actually, let's rephrase: Blumenauer, the bespectacled, bow tie-clad, bicycle-riding lawmaker whose district covers much of ― where else ― Portland, has been one of America's most outspoken public officials on liberalizing America's marijuana laws.
