Privatisation and liberalisation are considered key economic development activities for nations. The primary objective of these activities is to transform state-owned enterprises into private sector ...

The work of IMF staff members on issues related to the use and liberalization of capital controls has focused on the experiences of emerging market economies and of a few advanced economies during the ...

Despite a slowing economy, China continues to press ahead with its ambitious program of financial reform and opening up, and the process is entering a critical phase. At the heart of the next stage ...

After nearly two decades of the EU’s rail market liberalisation, the intention to ramp up competitiveness and revolutionise a sustainable high-profit rail network is well understood, although ...

Eight years since the US-EU open-skies agreement ushered in what was heralded as a new era in liberalisation, the rhetoric has changed – and perhaps the reality has too. This change in rhetoric is ...