liberalisation
Easing governmental controls
Liberalisation is the British spelling of liberalization—the process of removing restrictions, especially government controls on trade, industry, or social policy.
Economic liberalisation opens markets to competition and foreign investment: The liberalisation of telecommunications brought lower prices.
Political liberalisation loosens authoritarian controls: a gradual liberalisation of press freedoms.
State sells public assets
- deregulationRemoving governmental business restrictions
- competitionStruggle for supremacy
- antitrustAgainst corporate market dominance
- streamliningMaking more aerodynamic or efficient
Release from legal bondage
- autonomyIndependent decision-making capacity
- independenceFreedom from external control
- self-determinationControl over one's fate
- empowermentGaining authority or confidence
enfranchisement · secularization · decriminalization · permissiveness
Transition toward popular rule
- pluralismCoexistence of differing views
- multipartyInvolving several groups
- glasnostSoviet transparency reform
- perestroikaSoviet reform initiative
Private profit-based economy
- globalizationWorldwide economic and cultural integration
- entrepreneurshipCreating and managing ventures
- growthIncrease in size
- efficiencyProductive without waste
productivity · austerity · IMF
Tariff-reducing treaty acronym
- WTOGlobal commerce regulator
- protectionismShielding local producers
- commerceExchange of goods, services
privatization
State sells public assets
- deregulationRemoving governmental business restrictions
- competitionStruggle for supremacy
- antitrustAgainst corporate market dominance
emancipation
Release from legal bondage
- autonomyIndependent decision-making capacity
- independenceFreedom from external control
- self-determinationControl over one's fate
empowerment · enfranchisement · secularization · decriminalization · permissiveness
democratization
Transition toward popular rule
- pluralismCoexistence of differing views
- multipartyInvolving several groups
- glasnostSoviet transparency reform
perestroika · tolerance · progressivism · openness · transition
capitalism
Private profit-based economy
- globalizationWorldwide economic and cultural integration
- entrepreneurshipCreating and managing ventures
- growthIncrease in size
efficiency · productivity · austerity · IMF
GATT
Tariff-reducing treaty acronym
- WTOGlobal commerce regulator
- protectionismShielding local producers
- commerceExchange of goods, services
liberalisationprotectionism
Shielding local producers
nationalisation · state control · central planning · economic nationalism · trade restriction
liberalisationregulation
Official rules governing conduct
restriction · tightening · control · constraint · crackdown
liberalisationrepression
Unconscious blocking of thoughts
restriction · conservatism · authoritarianism · censorship · crackdown
liberal, liberty, liberate, liberation, liberally, liberator, liberalism, illiberal, liberalization