SOX-bashers have found fault, to varying degrees, with all five reforms.
The surge in Indian productivity predates Rajiv Gandhi's reforms by five years.
The U.S. has been a prime mover in urging Mr. Thein Sein, who became an elected head of state in 2011, to introduce reforms after five decades of repressive military rule.
Mr Singh conceded that there were "uncertainties" in running coalitions, but said he was hopeful that the government would complete its five-year term and push economic reforms.
The island's criminal justice system reforms will be implemented over the next five years.
Abe had succeeded as Prime Minister Koizumi Junichiro, whose five and half years as PM had produced real reforms and moved Japan forward.
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On 13 October 2010, Cabinet Office Minister Francis Maude said there was a "serious prospect" of reaching a negotiated settlement after five out of six civil service unions provisionally agreed reforms to the "unaffordable and unfair" redundancy scheme which is currently in place.
In this scenario, Mr. Najib will at best be forced to govern from a position of weakness for the next five years, lacking a strong mandate to push through reforms.
Among the proposed reforms: slashing the number of banking regulators from five entities to three, giving the Fed expanded powers to deal with market crises, creating a new federal commission to set mortgage-origination standards, and establishing an optional federal charter for insurance firms.
Serbia, less than two years into its reforms, has shut 23 banks, including four of its five biggest in January this year.
Three out of five of Ms. Schapiro's fellow commissioners have expressed reluctance to support additional reforms for money-market funds.
The Biggert-Waters Act passed in July 2012 proposed major reforms to the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) over the next five years.
Structurally, Konka introduced some reforms that were not possible before such as replacing multi-year (three-five year) contracts with single-year contracts for all staff, including technicians and administrative cadre.
Teaching centers on the "Four Books" and the "Five Classics" that formed the basis of Chinese education for hundreds of years until the educational reforms following the fall of the Ching dynasty in 1911.
Macaulay took a personal interest in running five new English medium schools which opened in Bengal, a year and a half after the reforms began in 1835 - in a single town in Bengal, he wrote, 1, 400 boys were learning English.
No fewer than five euro-zone governments have been toppled but their successors are committed to sounder budgeting and structural reforms.
"The reforms announcement in November will determine what happens in the European telecom market in the next five to 10 years, " he told Forbes.com.
The centre-left leader proposes reforms to tackle corruption and create jobs, possibly with the backing of comedian Beppe Grillo, whose Five Star Movement won an unexpected 25% in the election and holds the balance of power.
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