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n. - The act of making less strict.

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  • The G20 leaders are still recommending 'liberalisation' - solutions that are the opposite of what African countries need.
  • India is open to the idea of liberalisation of visas to enable more people-to-people contacts but underlines the need to keep security interests in mind.
  • Concepts like 'export oriented growth', 'structural adjustment', 'liberalisation' and 'debt repayment'
  • This is the 'liberalisation' that Celso Amorim was talking about -- first world institutions bending poorer nations over, and taking them roughly from behind.
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