Uzbekistan adopted what it called a more gradual approach to avoid social upheaval, but in practice this has meant very timid reforms or even backtracking on earlier advances.
On Tuesday, a number of parties accused the government of backtracking on reforms, Reuters reported from Nicosia.
The Spanish have proved especially feeble, with ministers twice proposing and then swiftly backtracking on reforms, once over a rise in the legal pension age, and once over public-sector pay cuts.Perks and privilegesEven in the worst-hit countries, protests rarely come from the main victims of the crisis: the young, immigrants and temporary workers.
"The controversy really stems from in 2009 when [Immigrations and Customs Enforcement] released this idea of detention reform and completely backtracked on all of it," Shah said.
The government is also backtracking on fiscal reforms.
The changes have also exposed Balls to accusations from the Conservatives that he is backtracking on Blairite reforms.
But Mr. Clinton, in a speech to Asian business leaders in this steamy city on the northern coast of Borneo, warned that countries backtracking on economic reforms risk a return to the financial crisis of 1997.
But Sunday's result in the Greek election marks a turning-point because Syriza, the radical-left party that has prevailed at the polls, campaigned on casting aside austerity, backtracking on the reforms and renegotiating the vast debt that Greece owes its European creditors.
Both Malinowski and Lee expressed concern that the government, which has only been headed by a civilian since 2011, was backtracking on the reforms embraced after more than half a century of military dictatorship.
Lee emphasized in her speech that "the rights of Rohingya people must be protected, promoted and upheld," adding that if the legislation was passed it would signal Myanmar was "backtracking" in its democratic reforms, reported the Democratic Voice of Burma.
