51.   The World Bank agreed, saying in a recent report that the reforms had helped control inflation and the budget deficit.

52.   Those reforms helped enable the election of local politicians critical of Beijing.

53.   Government reforms would help ensure security of tenure and boost employee morale, he stated.

54.   Those reforms helped Listyev emerge as the media face of the new Russia as one of the first and most popular hosts of television talk and game shows.

55.   Masaya Miyoshi, president and director-general of Keidanren, said labour, political and judicial reforms could help step up capital and technological inflows.