In the spirit of openness now sweeping the country, officials acknowledge that the economy was in no shape, for instance, to prosper after Myanmar's planned entry into a single market among the ten-country Association of South-East Asian Nations in 2015.

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Mr Bush will probably have to swallow all this and more in the shape of, for instance, blocked trade deals.

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For instance, which technologies will shape this new industrial revolution, and what is their economic attractiveness?

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