Egypt's successful economic liberalisation, too, bears his imprimatur.
After all, the last successful round of trade liberalisation negotiations was completed eight years earlier in 1993.
Liberalisation could allow the more successful growers to profit handsomely.
Years of successful if uneven progress on global trade liberalisation threaten to end in the debris of the Doha round; Pascal Lamy, the head of the World Trade Organisation, argues that it is not too late to salvage a deal.
Their prospects are clouded by the lack of agreed objectives or deadlines; nor is there much scope for the cross-sector trade-offs on which successful negotiations depend.The stalling of multilateral trade liberalisation will doubtless give a new impetus to regional and bilateral efforts.
His experiments in economic liberalisation in Soviet Georgia had been successful, but they made him conclude that socialism was unworkable, not reformable.
Had Manmohan Singh retired in 2009, history would have remembered him as one of the two main architects (PV Narasimha Rao being the other) of economic liberalisation in India; and as a moderately successful prime minister.
Even the TPP will boost participants' output by only 0.5%, much the same as Doha would, reckons one study by Peter Petri of Brandeis University and Michael Plummer of Johns Hopkins.In theory, a successful TPP or TTIP could become a magnet for other countries, eventually achieving multilateral trade liberalisation by default.
In Africa there has been much debate around the so-called "Beijing Development Model" whereby successful economic growth through market reforms can be achieved without yielding to full-scale political liberalisation of the type seen in Western liberal democracies.
Since most governments operate on the mercantilist premise that opening domestic markets is a concession to be traded for access to foreign markets, multilateral liberalisation is often the most effective route to free trade.In this mercantilist world, a successful WTO round requires a balanced trade-off between domestic and foreign concessions.
