Sentences with word «liberalisation»

The NNPC, in its latest monthly report, said it remained the major importer of petroleum products, especially the PMS, in spite of liberalisation of petroleum products and government's intervention meant to ease marketers» access to foreign exchange.

Whereas in Front Polisario the Court was faced with the question of the validity of the EU - Morocco Association Agreement (AA) and Liberalisation Agreement (LA), this time the Court was tasked with determining the validity of the EU - Morocco Fisheries Partnership Agreement (FPA), the 2013 Protocol thereto and the EU implementing acts in the context of a preliminary ruling procedure requested by the British High Court.

To some extent, it is more of the same: continue the substantial trade liberalisation of the past three decades.

You would suddenly have a very large economy, with considerable political clout and a long history of advocating for liberalisation of services, joining a relatively out - of - the - way trade arrangement.

Through enactments and spoken word narrations, his new piece will stage a speculative exploration of the pre-history of economic liberalisation in India.

IEA Commends Portugal Energy Market Reforms Recommends Moving on Market Liberalisation in Gas, Increasing Competition in Electricity 25 May 2000

Through enactments and spoken word narrations, this piece will stage a speculative exploration of the pre-history of economic liberalisation in India.

The major banks tended to scale back their regional presence, in response to the cost pressures on them after the events of the early 1990s, and the changing economics of branch banking which became apparent as financial liberalisation proceeded.

Drug liberalisation for a start — the final straw in his relationship with May.

There is firstly a globalisation of capital based on liberalisation and deregulation, i.e. the widespread disassembling of the governmental mechanisms which were previously in a position to manage anti-cyclical policies.

And it comes across to many reform - minded people inside China, as well as outsiders, as a step backwards in China's apparent path towards liberalisation of its economy, business and social framework.

Given the recent foreign investment liberalisations in these sectors, we expect a significant growth in transactions in this space as well.

The CSU officially opposes any kind of cannabis liberalisation in its Bayernplan: «Zero tolerance for drugs.

Business groups and unions had strongly opposed liberalisation of opening hours in England and Wales, arguing that it would give large supermarkets such as Asda and Tesco a greater competitive edge over small retailers.

[ii] The AfD claims in their party platform that «further liberalisation of drugs would not only be costly but also medically harmful.»

Discussions around Brexit are the latest in a series of talks on Korea's legal services liberalisation.

In a report released today in Ankara, the International Energy Agency commends the steps Turkey has taken towards energy liberalisation in the last two years.

The Stock Connect can be an important landmark for China's capital account liberalisation process.

«In regard to trade negotiations, my starting position is to seek full liberalisation across every sector, but these are negotiations,» Mr Robb said at a dairy industry forum in Melbourne on Monday.

«Unbundling» transmission and distribution from generation is the ultimate aim of currently ongoing electricity market liberalisation efforts in Japan, which should give consumers better choices of energy provider.

The financial markets which have resulted from liberalisation, deregulation and financial globalisation, have their own time - frame which is not that of the value - creation process and less still creation itself, with the slow - downs, or, worse, the interruptions in the returns process.

The Liberal Democrats demand the controlled liberalisation of cannabis in their electoral platform.

«It is impossible to pretend that the traditional case for capital market liberalisation remains unscathed.

They forgot that the «producers» i.e. the wage earners, are also consumers and that by sacking workers in the advanced capitalist countries and taking away, through liberalisation, the livelihood of peasants in Third World countries, the consumer loop closes up.

«The People's Republic of China is still an authoritarian one - party state, human rights abuses remain widespread and, despite changes in the economic system, signs of political liberalisation remain scarce,» the report explains.

In Nepal, where laws were liberalised in 2002, abortion - related complications dipped from 54 per cent of all maternal complications in 1998 to 28 per cent in 2009, and similar gains have been seen in Ethiopia since liberalisation in 2005.

This may indicate that gas liberalisation is beginning to encourage fuel switching back to gas.

Douglas Scott director Jonathan Nolan says: «Budgetary pressures born of the ongoing liberalisation of the legal services market and economic uncertainty mean that law firms are engaged in a balancing act — they want to create opportunity but at a price they are comfortable with.»

David Cameron called for drug liberalisation when he first became an MP and Nick Clegg is thought to be privately sympathetic.

In this action, Front Polisario sought the (partial) annulment of Council Decision 2012 / 497 / EU, which approved the conclusion of an agreement between the EU and Morocco concerning reciprocal liberalisation measures on agricultural and fishery products and amendments to the 2000 EU - Morocco Association Agreement.

We have seen in our own case how liberalisation of financial markets has led to pressures to liberalise product markets (through ongoing tariff reductions and other forms), to bring more competition in the provision of infrastructures (such as transport, communications and power generation), and to free up the labour market (through, for example, enterprise - based wage bargaining).

Financialmarket liberalisation and privatisation, for example, have fostered entrepreneurship and investment.

Coincidental or not, the conclusion of the TPP sends a signal to the US that both Canada and Mexico are committed to trade liberalisation at a time when the Trump Administration is beating the protectionist drum.

One could say, I'm complaining about the gradually liberalisation of Christian ethics.

«It is hard to reconcile the recent policy emphasis in this area with the market and trade liberalisation objectives that have underpinned Australia's broader microeconomic reform program in past decades.»

A bigger market stemming from trade liberalisation increases the rewards for greater efficiency, productivity and innovation.

The association explained that under the ECOWAS trade liberalisation scheme which comes with attendants on fair trade, Dangote Cement could export cement to Ghana with no harm and foul, but «when a country subsidizes imports into another country, it is unfair trade.»

The push for drug liberalisation comes as part of a global trend toward a more liberal stance on narcotics, following half a century of expensive and broadly ineffective efforts to wipe out the drug trade.

Most resulted in massively improved services to consumers - especially where liberalisation and competition were introduced and the Treasury was not too rapacious.

However, rather than implying a swift liberalisation of illicit drugs, Sefatian suggested another direction: re-introducing the cultivation of plants such as poppy and cannabis under state supervision; legalisation of cannabis and opium use under specific circumstances outlined by ad hoc laws, for instance, only in private places and for opium — as he told me — only for people above a certain age.

With the continued expansion of the Murdoch media empire projected for the coming years, the likelihood of further media liberalisation towards Fox news - style political discourse in the UK & the likes of Dan Hannan waiting in the wings, the Left should be cautious in welcoming such arguments to the mainstream political conversation so soon.

Isn't a justified liberal response to this that if you have evidence that gun liberalisation in your society would lead to more not less gun crime, than gun control is a legitimate liberal response?

The mainstream practitioners who were active in the years of Harold's premiership all indicate support and admiration for the way he held the Labour party together, sought to drag Britain into the modern era and presided over a series of liberalisation acts including abolition of the death penalty and the legalisation of homosexuality, abortion and divorce.

Globalisation and the interconnected liberalisation of markets is a genie out of its bottle and is not going to be reversed despite the primal howls.

The way forward, he stressed, is to implement regional and continental decisions, such as the ECOWAS Trade Liberalisation Scheme and the Continental Free Trade Area, recognising that ultimately the benefits are in everyone's interest.

Clegg's newly robust stance chimes with a growing international trend toward liberalisation, with some US states experimenting with new legal frameworks and Latin American countries kicking back against pressure from the UN to maintain prohibition.

However, Gaimin Nonyane, head of economic research at Ecobank, said she expects the positive growth trajectory to be maintained for the foreseeable future — as long as forex market liberalisation continues and assuming oil prices remain at current levels with no further disruptions to oil production.