This book provides the first general theory, grounded in comparative historical analysis, that aims to explain the variation in the models of economic liberalization across Ibero-America in the last ...

Capital account liberalization may have substantial benefits, but recent experience also underscores its risks. How should liberalization be sequenced and managed to ensure that the benefits dominate?

In this first phase, countries began to dismantle import and export licensing arrangements and reduced foreign exchange controls. Further trade liberalization measures were undertaken in the 1990s.

Guided by the Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA) and associated agreements, the Chinese mainland has fully ...

Despite this, services liberalization has progressed slowly compared to goods liberalization both at the multilateral and the regional levels. Different regulatory mechanisms across countries have ...

At present, China is accelerating the construction of a high-level socialist market economic system, steadily expanding ...

A visit to the kingdom was a pleasant surprise. It’s clear that Riyadh’s moves to open it up are having an impact. On ...

Armenia's Deputy Prime Minister Mher Grigoryan met with Johannes Luchner, Deputy Director-General for Migration and Home ...

The US has come quite some way in legalizing cannabis use, with nearly half of states having laws permitting recreational cannabis use. Yet the legalization of cannabis remains an ever-present ...

ROME (AP) — Pope Francis on Wednesday denounced drug traffickers as "murderers" and labeled drug liberalization laws a “fantasy” as he marked the U.N.'s day against drug use and illicit ...