• The bill marks one of France's biggest social reforms since the abolition of the death penalty in 1981.

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  • Although Saudi Arabia remains a deeply conservative country, King Abdallah has recently introduced some cautious political and social reforms.

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  • Saudi Arabia remains a deeply conservative country, however King Abdullah has recently introduced some cautious political and social reforms.

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  • They agreed on January 20th to a package of social reforms that include extra spending on welfare and retraining.

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  • As with almost all social reforms, the cause of school reform is best served by under-claiming what any particular reform can achieve.

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  • He could bear no mention of Lloyd George and his social reforms.

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  • Most of these tensions emanate from complaints from radical factions in the PT that claim that Lula has not carried social reforms far enough.

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  • He argues that the rules that regulate the industry are too vague and do not include measurable, objective targets for labour and social reforms.

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  • Later, came social reforms like making the divorce laws more equitable.

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  • The debate in parliament is expected to last two weeks and marks one of France's biggest social reforms since the abolition of the death penalty in 1981.

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  • Lula's promised social reforms have been slow in coming.

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  • He hopes the peace deal will lure more investment to the Philippines, particularly from Indonesia, Brunei and Malaysia, and give momentum to his economic and social reforms beyond his term of office.

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  • There is no denying that Anna Hazare and Baba Ramdev have the right to galvanise their supporters to take on the scourge of corruption, despite their spotty ideologies and kooky prescriptions for social reforms.

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  • While Lady Thatcher was more in tune with the tax-cutting, small-government traditions of Gladstonian liberalism, Mr Blair draws upon the more interventionist traditions and social reforms of the great reforming Liberal governments of 1906-14.

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  • Africa is becoming an increasingly attractive hub for foreign investors in light of various economic, political and social reforms that are sweeping through the continent, resulting in a much improved business environment conducive for foreign direct investment.

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  • As the countries of this region continue their important endeavors to political, economic and social reforms, we welcome the initiative by the United States to open new economic opportunities for all the people in the Middle East.

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  • However, social reforms are slowly being introduced.

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  • Mr Lagos is keen to push forward his promised economic and social reforms, held up partly by the long legal battle to decide whether the former dictator Augusto Pinochet could or could not be put on trial, and partly by the economic slowdown.

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  • Mr. Najib, a 59-year-old British-educated aristocrat, urged voters to stick with the National Front that has governed this resource-rich nation of 28 million uninterruptedly since independence from Britain in 1957 and which, under his stewardship, embarked on economic and social reforms to improve its competitiveness and boost incomes.

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  • "We are providing a platform for business leaders and others concerned with the environment and corporate social responsibility to work together toward the common goal of ensuring the availability of natural resources, supporting social reforms, and at the same time securing the efficient delivery of supplies, " said Hau Lee, co-director of the Stanford Global Supply Chain Management Forum.

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  • These conditions are part of the social housing reforms introduced by the government.

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  • But the country's recently elected President Dilma Rousseff has made the issue one of her big social policy reforms.

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  • Chairman Yonekura is emphatic that 2011 must be the year in which Japan commits to tax and social welfare reforms.

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  • That prime minister was popular in the London social scene while playing it cool politically, and instituted several social welfare reforms during his term from 1908-1916.

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  • In other words, the future of Germany's social and economic reforms looks as muzzy as ever.

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  • Whereas the IMF has steered only Turkey's macroeconomic policy, the EU has been the catalyst for an entire programme of social and economic reforms.

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  • With them in charge of both houses, the president could find it difficult to push through any policy initiatives, such as his proposed social-security reforms, or another economic stimulus package.

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  • In 2001 Liaoning, the north-east's wealthiest province, was chosen as a national pioneer of social-security reforms that transferred the burden of looking after former SOE employees to local governments instead of enterprises, which could rarely afford adequate severance pay, let alone pensions.

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  • But governance reforms and social development, propelled by economic growth that delivers tangible improvements in the lives of citizens, must also continue.

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