1.   There was also concern among US officials that the funding would encourage Israel to continue to postpone steps to liberalize the economy.

2.   And African nations that took sides in the Cold War, as Kenya did with the West, suddenly had to liberalize their economies when it ended.

3.   As Vietnam has liberalized its economy and opened its doors to foreigners in recent years, the standard of living has improved.

4.   After decades of flirtation with statism, countries around the world dismantled economic controls, deregulated industries and liberalized their economies.

5.   But Chirac still needed to make a few more cuts and he was determined to proceed with his broader program of liberalizing the economy.

6.   But the steps that India and the states have taken to liberalize the economy are only beginning to penetrate the public consciousness.

7.   But those reforms turned out to be the last step instead of the first toward liberalizing an economy built on socialism and cronyism.

8.   Communist China has mushroomed in global power and influence and slowly liberalized its economy, but retained a repressive, one-party rule.

9.   For Qatar, gas development is the driving force behind its effort to attract foreign investment and develop and liberalize its economy.

10.   He liberalized the economy, invested in the infrastructure and in education and stressed African self reliance.