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The Japan Investment Bank’s decision to invest in port development in Burma – essential if the economy, too, is to be opened – is one positive sign that the world will keep pace with Thein Sein step for step.
Border guards, receiving no instructions and not knowing what else to do, opened them up.
It would have been opened, not breached.
Suppose that during a public lecture, some people feel hot and ask that the windows be opened; others disagree.
Moreover, the hundreds of millions of low-cost workers who joined the global labor force when China, India, and Eastern Europe opened their economies are still putting pressure on the wages of all but the most skilled workers in the advanced economies.
It has been 150 years since the "black ships" of America's Navy forcibly opened up Japan.
The most important challenge now is for President Kim to build a new ruling coalition that can ensure a measure of political stability at home as the economy is opened up and the knotty issues of nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles in North Korea are tackled.
The ICC has opened four active investigations, issued public charges against twelve people, and to date secured custody of four.
The first Edo collapsed when the United States Navy opened up the Japanese market with the arrival of Commodore Perry’s “black ships” in 1853.
Much of this was due to an export-led industrialization and urbanization strategy that opened up new opportunities in the rapidly expanding cities, where labor, capital, technology, and infrastructure came together to form supply capacities for global markets.
President Xi’s Singapore LessonsNEW YORK – China is at a crucial point today, as it was in 1978, when the market reforms launched by Deng Xiaoping opened its economy to the world – and as it was again in the early 1990’s, when Deng’s famous “southern tour” reaffirmed the country’s development path.
Now the European Commission has opened an investigation into whether or not Germany’s huge current-account surplus is causing economic damage in the European Union and beyond.
When his will was opened it was found that he had donated his considerable wealth to creating the prizes that bear his name.
The postwar years marked a complete change of direction, as countries opened up, allowing freer flows of trade, capital, ideas, and people.
In March 2009 Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev staged a constitutional referendum that opened the way for his lifetime presidency.
It opened Poland to Europe, but also brought a fear of foreigners and an invasion of Western mass culture.
But the same authorities have already opened their economies’ manufacturing and agriculture sectors for the common good, even at the expense of minority groups like farmers and factory workers.
The reason is that wood opened up a different and much richer path to development.
Meanwhile, political leaders gradually developed regulatory and trade regimes that eliminated tariffs, simplified border crossings, and opened exciting new markets.
The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) and Rwanda (ICTR) opened for work in less than a year in order to begin addressing heinous crimes that were ongoing.
True, even under economic sanctions, Iran has intruded ever more deeply into Arab politics, but it was the US that opened the door by overthrowing Saddam’s Sunni-minority regime in Iraq, which ultimately brought an Iranian-backed Shia government to power.
Unlike his neighbors, he opened the border to desperate refugees, mostly women, children, and the elderly.
But the Italians had no chance in the final against Spain, the best team in the world, none of whose players opened their mouths during the Spanish anthem, Marcha Real – which stands to reason, given that the “Royal March” has no lyrics.
The US may view its war on drugs in Mexico and Colombia as partially successful; the danger is that Central America does not have those countries’ institutional resilience, leaving the way open for new fronts to be opened.
A wide-ranging system of transfers now assures that these funds find their way to the North; when some routes are closed off, new ones are opened up.
This opened the way to options, selling and buying on credit, and derivatives of all kinds.
Yet the G-20 has opened the way to discussion of these fundamental issues.
Gore and Hansen want a moratorium on coal-fired power plants, but neglect the fact that the hundreds of new power plants that will be opened in China and India in the coming years could lift a billion people out of poverty.
On the surface, China has opened up quite a lead on India.
While many appreciate the new horizons that have opened for them, a lingering ambivalence about their relationship to the paternalistic, totalitarian state remains.
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