The Puławian faction-the name comes from the Puławska Street in Warsaw, on which many of the members lived-sought great liberalization of socialism in Poland.

This change also helped to lock in many of the gains in trade liberalization.

Cato's scholars also advocate positions that are appealing to many on the left side of the American political spectrum, including support for civil liberties, liberal immigration policies, equal rights for gays and lesbians, and drug liberalization.

This liberalization of attitudes has resulted in the legalization of homosexuality in many countries, following the ground-breaking Wolfenden report in the UK.

Additionally, many Methodist Protestants objected to what they perceived as a liberalization on the part of the Methodist Episcopal Church with respect to the inspiration and authority of the Scriptures, the deity of Christ and Wesley's teachings on the work of the Holy Spirit.

Yang had a close friendship with Deng and shared many of Deng's long-term economic goals, but was far less enthusiastic about the agenda of political liberalization promoted by other senior leaders favoured by Deng, including Hu Yaobang, Zhao Ziyang, Wan Li, and Hu Qili.

While controversial among many in the party, who fear that he might be a Chinese Mikhail Gorbachev, Li's views about political liberalization, however, do not entail Western-style models.

That situation has changed, and under new WTO rules, many textile tariffs and quotas already have been eliminated, and liberalization of trade policy also is occurring on the complex agricultural front.

James was an advocate of many social reforms, including the abolition of slavery and the liberalization of divorce.

Organized opposition to gay and lesbian rights began in the 1970s ,, primarily amongst Christian groups, following the liberalization of attitudes and laws relating to homosexuality in many English-speaking countries and Western Europe.

The events of the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 were an indication to many elders in the CCP that liberalization in the propaganda sector had gone too far, and that the Party must re-establish its control over ideology and the propaganda system.

Regulatory authorities do not consistently close markets, yet as seen in economic liberalization efforts by states and various institutions ( International Monetary Fund and World Bank ) in Latin America, "... financial liberalization and privatization coincided with democratization ".

Globalization, liberalization and the information technology revolution has had a profound impact on law and legal institutions worldwide and in India.

The book features concise analysis of crises due to financial liberalization in the era of globalization, a critique of the ideology and practices of global institutions such as the WTO, IMF and World Bank, and a tightly argued explanation of the conditional insights and much overlooked limitations of international trade theory based upon Ricardo's theory of comparative advantage.

Caution must however be employed: as the case of Haiti shows, liberalization when institutions and the economy are not strong enough to face risks and opportunities can be harmful ( Rodrik 2001 ).

Cases such as Haiti ’ s post-1986 liberalization show that the opportunities thereby created will not be taken advantage of if macroeconomic policies, institutions, and the investment climate are not favorable.

In periods of relative liberalization, the influence of people and organizations outside the formal party structure has tended to increase, particularly in the economic realm.

Most criticism has been focused on trade liberalization and the elimination of subsidies, and criticism has been particularly strident in the agriculture sector.

A first-rate communicator and a personal friend of Jean Gélamur, head of the Catholic media group Bayard Presse, Lustiger was particularly attentive to the media and developed Catholic radio and television channels ( Radio Notre-Dame ) after François Mitterrand's liberalization of French media in 1981.

Perhaps its most well-known views related to economic matters, particularly the liberalization of the economy and the adoption of laissez-faire principles.

" They argue that the Stolper-Samuelson theorem is " dead " because following trade liberalization in some developing countries ( particularly in Latin America ), wage inequality rose and, under the assumption that these countries are labor abundant, the SS theorem predicts, they argue, that wage inequality should have fallen.

Such controls used to be common in most countries, particularly poorer ones, until the 1990s when free trade and globalization started a trend towards economic liberalization.

Koenkai remained particularly important in the overrepresented rural areas, where paternalistic, old-style politics flourished and where the LDP, despite disaffection during the late 1980s over agricultural liberalization policies, had its strongest support.

Publicly, Hoveida assumed the notion that the regime in its current state would eventually reform on its own, and that political liberalization was only a small issue in the grand scheme of modernization.

The Chilean Government implemented a further liberalization of capital markets in 2001, and there is further pending legislation proposing further liberalization.

Costa Rica also is a member of the Cairns Group which is pursuing global agricultural trade liberalization in the World Trade Organization and helping to maintain the proper economy level in Costa Rica.

Moreover, according to this thesis, a major motivational factor for Gorbachev was his realization that the Soviet Union could not compete economically with the USA However, if economic premises are taken into account, it is not clear why the Soviet leaders did not adopt the Chinese option — economic liberalization with preservation of political system.

The adoption of the ITRs in 1988 is often taken as the start of the wider liberalization process in international telecommunications, though a few countries, including United States and United Kingdom, had made steps to liberalize their markets before 1988.

Rapid privatization of previously state-controlled industries and liberalization of the economy is spurring unprecedented growth in Jordan's urban centers like Amman and especially Aqaba.

It is, perhaps, the linkage between economic reform and political liberalization that worries the leadership.

This concern is based on the belief that economic reform will produce new interests that will demand political expression, and that demands for the institutionalization of such pluralism eventually will lead to political liberalization.

The country has, however, made progress toward sustainable economic growth since the 1950s and is committed to a program of economic liberalization.

The liberalization of the economy is proceeding, but at a slow pace.

Telecommunications in Syria is slowly moving towards liberalization, with a number of licenses awarded and services launched in the Internet service provision market.

High quality, especially in urban areas such as Bangkok ; liberalization, as required by World Trade Organization commitment, is complete by 2006

He was a major figure in the political liberalization of France and in the exoneration of the falsely accused and convicted army officer Alfred Dreyfus, which is encapsulated in the renowned newspaper headline J ' Accuse.

Political liberalization is occurring but at a slower pace than 1989 and the early 1990s.

Tunisia is in the process of economic reform and liberalization after decades of heavy state direction and participation in the economy.

The term neoliberal today is often used as a general condemnation of economic liberalization policies and advocates.

Despite such problems, IMF policy in response to crises, which is supposed to be guided by neoliberal ideas such as the Washington Consensus, is to increase liberalization of the economy and decrease barriers, allowing bigger capital flight and the chance for foreign firms to shore up their monopolies.

The term is in active use in Chinese politics, with the Communist Party of China's Constitution stating party objectives include " combat bourgeois liberalization " in line with the four cardinal principles.

Nowadays, with regard to economic policy, the Austrian People's Party is advocating economic liberalization, endorsing the reduction of Austria's relatively large public sector, welfare reform, and general deregulation.

For instance, electricity generation, electricity retailing, telecommunication, some types of public transit and postal services have become competitive in some countries and the trend towards liberalization, deregulation and privatization of public utilities is growing, but the network infrastructure used to distribute most utility products and services has remained largely monopolistic.

Most often, the term is used to refer to economic liberalization, especially trade liberalization or capital market liberalization.