Abe also wants to carry out political reforms such as changing Japan's constitution which enshrines pacifism.
Doubts persist about the ability of the burlesque Silvio Berlusconi to carry out real reforms.
Even with Suharto's personal stamp on the deal, some doubt his ability to carry out the reforms.
But Mr. Yeltsin is finding it much harder to carry out economic reforms.
IKEA's plans are a vote of confidence for India, but the pressure is still on the government to carry out economic reforms, analysts say.
Money is scarce both because Mr Pastrana's government was slow to carry out economic reforms and because the economy has become a casualty of violence.
Mr Arafat, who has announced elections for January, says it is impossible to carry out the reforms demanded by the US with the Israeli military occupying Palestinian-administered territories.
In Asia and Latin America, economic reforms had often been started by authoritarian regimes, but in Africa, where states are fragile, governments have had to carry out economic reforms and democratise at the same time.
In return for the Fund's backing, Indonesia would carry out specific reforms of its financial sector, the better to prepare its economy for the rupiah peg and ease the concerns of the IMF and foreign investors.
One explanation is that he seems to represent German voters' own divided sentiments: he is at once a member of Mr Kohl's reassuringly conservative party and an embodiment of Christian Democratic values, while having the decisiveness needed to carry out the reforms that Germans in their hearts know the country needs.
In fact, even if it cared to try, Zimbabwe's government would find it hard to carry out the macroeconomic reforms that Britain insists on.
There are signs that the new Palestinian leader is preparing to carry out the security reforms that Arafat repeatedly promised but failed to enact.
Congress also failed to carry out promised earmark reforms this year.
Turkey will also be lobbying to begin negotiations: it was recognised officially at Helsinki as a candidate, but told it would need to carry out big political reforms before going much further.
He told the BBC that while eurobonds would make it much cheaper for countries like Greece and Italy to borrow, they could also give the eurozone a "strong stick" by denying governments the right to use eurobonds if they did not carry out necessary financial reforms.
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In the end this proved to be Yevgeny Primakov, who promised to carry out the necessary economic reforms.
But if a cheaper yen contributes to economic recovery it will at least provide a healthier environment in which to carry out some painful structural reforms.
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Even if he can summon enough support in Congress, Mr Mahuad will be trying to carry out in just months reforms that have taken other countries years to achieve.
And if they are just cutting and cutting and cutting, and their unemployment rate is going up and up and up, and people are pulling back further from spending money because they're feeling a lot of pressure -- ironically, that can actually make it harder for them to carry out some of these reforms over the long term.
His successor, Carlos Menem, a Peronist, would carry out the free-market reforms he had eschewed.
Still, if devaluation helped to put an end to deflation, it would offer a healthier economic environment in which to carry out the structural and banking reforms that are essential for Japan's recovery.
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