Earlier this year the government enacted incentive-oriented tax reductions, promptly sending the stock market up smartly and putting Japan, albeit tentatively, on the road to recovery.
Two things in particular make it hard for the government to follow market-oriented policies.
Last fall, Britain's Tony Blair asked Schrder and Jospin to join him publicly in signing the so-called "third way" agreement to develop more market-oriented government policies.
The challenge is putting results-oriented government into practice.
And, in an effort to become more service-oriented, government organizations are having to overcome challenges such as legacy systems and disconnected applications that lack the power or flexibility to deliver a truly consumer-friendly experience.
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"The government is determined to keep the export-oriented industries free from political strife, " he said.
Liu Yuhui, chief economist with Huatai Securities, told the Daily that adding to the deficit through government spending was actually a sound, market-oriented move.
Pro-exchange Republicans, at the state level, believed that if they set up the exchanges themselves, they could do so in a more market-oriented way than the federal government would.
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If the government meets its goal of massively expanding the export-oriented manufacturing sector, for example, India will become another big target for developed-country protectionists.
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Putting all federal employees on the exchanges would obliterate the most market-oriented insurance program run by the government, the Federal Employee Health Benefits Program, or FEHBP.
Unlike credit-oriented benchmarks, the primary risk in government securities is interest rates.
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So the government has seized on the idea of creating four new research-oriented institutions from scratch, with foreign universities as partners and, crucially, promises of autonomy.
It seems that Mr Riordan is fulfilling the promise another multimillionaire, Ross Perot, unsuccessfully held out in 1992: to run a business-oriented, non-partisan, problem-solving government.
They are pragmatic, anti-ideological and results-oriented, hostile to both Big Labour and Big Government but quite prepared to see the government take an active role in dealing with problems like global warming.
Despite recent efforts by the government and the private sector to encourage students to pursue careers in STEM-oriented disciplines, the gap between those pursuing STEM education in the U.S relative to other countries shows no signs of closing.
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It shows not only that 49% of American households now depend on government, more than double the rate of the 1980s, but that spending on dependence-oriented programs, as a portion of all federal spending, increased from 28% in 1962 to 49% in 1990, and 71% in 2010.
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The strengthening in the yen throws a spanner in the works for the Japanese government, which has been trying to weaken the currency in hopes of reviving the battered, relatively export-oriented economy.
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