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India's economic opening, initiated by its 1991 reforms, has a role in both novels.
Possible scenarios range from maintaining the status quo to a Chinese-style economic opening.
An all-party meeting called by India's governing coalition has failed to break the deadlock in parliament over recent economic reforms opening the retail sector to foreign competition.
Poor countries can reap large economic benefits from opening their markets to each other.
When social entrepreneurs deliver power, water, and other goods to poor communities, they create foundations for economic growth, opening frontier markets to other forms of investment.
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Sweeping economic reforms are opening up demand for business travel, notes Yoshihisa Yamada, an executive director at Rakuten, Japan's number one online travel firm and a 20% owner of Ctrip.
India's economic growth powered ahead in the mid-2000s as investors warmed to a country which appeared to be throwing off its Socialist-inspired economic policies and opening up to greater foreign investment.
Still, the decision took the focus off economic growth while also opening up Democrats to the charge they were pumping up the size of government at the wrong time.
By the same token, the yearning for government spending on "infrastructure" to stimulate economic activity creates an opening for the new president to push the kind of green projects that fit his call for a transition to alternative energy sources, including new kinds of mass-transit systems.
Beijing may adopt other policy measures to support economic activity, such as opening up more strategic industries (eg, railway, power and telecom, and services) to private investment, providing special assistance to small and midsized enterprises and export companies, and, possibly, offering specific consumer spending subsidies.
But there is also economic sense to it, as opening these top positions up to the other half of the population will mean an even more talented slate of candidates to choose from, making sure the best and brightest are better and brighter.
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Just before the budget in February, the government published its annual Economic Survey, which proposed a gradual opening, letting foreigners start by setting up multi-brand stores in big cities.
Murdoch told the opening news conference that an economic recovery will take "a long time" and cautioned that Americans, who had been living beyond their means for years, should not return to such habits.
Even modest economic ties would underscore the benefit of an opening to the West.
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Why aren't they substantially boosting capital expenditures, especially given rapid global economic growth and the dazzling opportunities technology is opening up?
Vietnam had only begun opening when Asia's 1997 economic storm hit, so, unlike some of its neighbours (see article), it was largely unscathed, and growth has accelerated since.
Leblanc and the BTMM think one way of opening up greater Montreal to potential economic spinoffs from the Plan Nord project is to build a strong networking connection between contractors, suppliers and qualified labor from the area.
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Given the prevailing economic climate, some think that this year's opening ceremony should consist simply of an open-topped bus, with Colin Firth, J.
President Bush is in South Korea where he conferred with the country's leader in advance of tomorrow's opening of a 21-nation trade and economic summit.
For starters, the global economy seems to have become so unpredictable that the organisers ditched one of the forum's big opening events, the annual session making an economic forecast for the year ahead.
Opening up ANWR, Gore continued, represented bad economic and bad environmental policy.
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The encounter took place at the Place de Nations prior to the opening of the Annual Ministerial Review of the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC).
The rough patch started with Monday's opening bell, as a downbeat weekend reading on Chinese economic growth and the largest slide in gold prices in 30 years sent the Dow to its biggest one-day drop of the year.
In his opening speech, President Pranab Mukherjee said India's current economic situation was "difficult".
One test of the Obama administration's economic philosophy is whether it is as eager to take advantage of that opening as some of the others now before it.
Using a social network, one of the single most powerful tools since the Internet arrived on the scene, as a platform to narrow an audience to salacious gossip, defeats the purpose of opening up our world to everyone, regardless of socio-economic status or class.
To revive economic growth, Brazil needs to put more stress on competitiveness and market-opening trade diplomacy.
It is thought a cut in municipal tip opening hours, the introduction of a new van permit system and a tough economic climate is to blame.
An economic impact assessment commissioned by the Stonehaven Town Partnership (STP) has said re-opening the road to light vehicles could be worth millions of pounds each year.
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