As for Italy, it is busy changing government, again (see article ).
While many obstacles in Africa are similar to those in other emerging markets, our research shows that five of these challenges are more pronounced, requiring Africa-specific solutions: an underdeveloped infrastructure, a disorganized and fragmented retail landscape, a lack of reliable market research, unclear and ever-changing government regulations and a severely limited talent pipeline.
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At the same time, the very basis for identification systems are changing from improving government functions to enabling citizen services.
Apple has spoken to government officials about changing restrictions that prevent it from selling online, a government official says.
Amid the stock-market frenzy, the Israeli government started considering changing its 1950s-era energy royalties and tax regime, to boost the government's take of any gas find.
Nor is Mr Blair's government truly changing the fundamentals of the British constitution.
The latest move comes despite another decision by the court two weeks ago which prevents the government from changing election boundaries.
He signaled he is open to means-testing Medicare benefits and changing the way the government calculates inflation, a step that would reduce Social Security benefits.
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But Labour's shadow chancellor Ed Balls said the measure would not be enough to help without the Government also changing course on its austerity plans.
The Federal CIO Vivek Kundra, in fact, released a report of over 30 illustrative case studies of how cloud computing is changing the nature of government IT.
He hasn't been able to lay a new foundation, he said, because the national government keeps changing the requirements for soil testing and foundation design in his zone.
In part this is because the opposition, led by the Liberals, has seized upon the international financial meltdown as a game-changing event that requires government intervention in Canada.
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Things are changing: now the government aims to integrate them more into Georgian society (a policy agreed before the war, but pursued with greater energy and resources after it).
The changing nature of Indonesian government - from the candidness of the presidency (Wahid's propensity to shoot his mouth off ensures he needs no spokesman) to its comforting humanity (he has been known to doze off during lengthy parliament hearings, only to be pinched awake by Megawati) - is his doing and his alone.
Little Rock School District's progress toward being declared desegregated by the government has been slowed by the city's changing neighborhoods and disputes among local education and government leaders, experts say.
The UK government is currently changing the law to prevent "dual candidacy" in Welsh assembly elections.
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Changing instructions by the Japanese government itself is another factor contributing to confusion and alarm among the Japanese people.
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In the Commons on Thursday morning, Hilary Benn asked his opposite number if the government would consider changing the rules.
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The immediate reason is that in many countries the state is now so bloated that, even without changing the basic structure of government, it could be made much more efficient.
However, Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg recently said the government would consider changing the laws on royal succession to remove the right of male heirs to succeed before older female siblings.
However FOI campaigner Ms Brooke told the BBC that by introducing changes to the publication of expenses as a statutory instrument, the government was effectively changing the Freedom of Information act, she said.
Peers also asked questions to government ministers on changing the clocks between British Summer Time and Greenwich Mean Time, recommendations of an Ofsted report on lessons to be learnt from serious case reviews, and the occupation of Abyei by Northern Sudanese forces.
If public-sector workers cannot afford to live in the south-east of England, then the government should be changing pay scales that currently discriminate in favour of public sector workers in cheap bits of the country and against those in expensive bits, rather than reintroducing something that once looked like a boon to the poor and turned out to be a shackle.
Meanwhile, a government commission has recommended changing the army's financial management so it can spend more on the things that matter.
The Scottish government has ruled out changing the status of Scottish Water.
It is true that a government that is constantly changing the rules makes it harder for businesses and individuals to make investment decisions.
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That's not really changing anything structurally in the federal government.
Liberal Democrat MP Andrew George pledged his strong support for the motion and welcomed the government's consultation on changing how domestic fishing is managed.
In an about-turn remarkable even for a provincial government expert at tacking with changing winds, Quebec said that it would, in essence, ignore the court's ruling.
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