The economy was thrown open to foreign trade and investment, and many state industries were privatised.
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There are other examples of how investment protectionism affects even those industries that are open to foreign investment.
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The Russian energy industry is more open to foreign investment than it was.
Japan is even less open to foreign workers than to rice imports, finishing at the bottom of the migration rankings.
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Multinationals are also competing for talent with China's domestic companies, which need to improve the quality of their people as their markets open to foreign rivals.
This is thought to be the first time the Army has put limits on the nationality of its soldiers, having historically been open to foreign service personnel.
It's a supervised resident-like position that's open to foreign-trained doctors.
It is significant that financial institutions in Hong Kong and Singapore, both of which are wide open to foreign financial companies, have been able to withstand the region's turmoil.
Morgan Stanley's Emerging Markets Free Latin America index (open to foreign investors, that is) sells for 13 times earnings, compared with 33 for the U.S. and 24 for Europe.
He visited Cam Ranh Bay in Vietnam, one of Asia's best natural deepwater ports that was used by America during the Vietnam war and which Vietnam now wants to open to foreign navies for commercial reasons.
The sale of the Mistrals is by far the most prominent example, but present-day Russia is far more open to foreign defense technology than was the Soviet Union which, as the articles state, had a standing policy of manufacturing all of its own weapons systems.
But financial liberalisation is risky, and it therefore makes sense for economies with dodgy financial systems to open up to foreign capital more cautiously.
The new government in Canberra is believed to be open to a foreign takeover.
When President Thein Sein met U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in December 2011, she encouraged him to further open the country to foreign trade and investment.
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The Japanese government launched a number of policies to expand domestic demand and open domestic markets to foreign businesses, let its currency appreciate, provided tax credit incentives for imports, and lifted financial regulations.
The decision by India's government to open the retail sector to foreign competition has received full parliamentary backing.
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India's parliament will hold a vote on the government's controversial decision to open the retail sector to foreign competition.
Last week, MPs voted to open the retail sector to foreign competition - an issue that has proved highly divisive.
India's government has won a crucial vote in parliament on its controversial plans to open the retail sector to foreign competition.
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"To help create jobs in America, we need to lower taxes and open up foreign markets to American goods, " said McCain spokesman Tucker Bounds.
Among the casualties were two much-touted economic reform bills, one to open insurance to competition and foreign investment, the other to curb piracy of patented products.
Bucking the trend, India's Sensex lost 1% to 16008.34 as the government failed to break the political deadlock over the government's plan to open the retail sector to foreign investment.
The United States is prodding poor countries hard to open their financial sectors more to foreign competition.
And yes, at Unilever's Mumbai headquarters on Monday morning, Mr Cameron urged Delhi to open its markets up to greater foreign trade, particularly in financial services like banking and insurance.
Another helpful change would be to open the banking industry to more foreign competition, as Jeffrey Lang, an American trade official, urged the South Korean government to do in talks in Seoul on August 19th.
Manufacturing is almost entirely open to 100% foreign ownership, but electricity transmission remains highly restricted and thus uncompetitive.
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Why open the gates to foreign capital, only to invite excesses that will cause pain and disappointment later?
Oman, once reclusive and red-taped, has thrown open its doors to foreign investors.
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Rather than protecting inefficient industries, he believes that countries should open their industries to foreign competition in order to improve efficiency.
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