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ess across several areas of regulation as measured by the report: Sri Lanka, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Burundi, Costa Rica, Mongolia, Greece, Serbia, and Kazakhstan. • Worldwide, 108 economies implemented 201 regulatory reforms in 2011/12 making it easier to do business as measured by Doing Business. Reform ef

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trouble this quickly. Even in 1989-90, those countries were the exception and not the rule. Think Ukraine, Belarus, Yugoslavia, Romania, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and of course Russia itself. More people live in countries where the 1989-90 revolutionary wave failed to establish secure constitutional

rime minister Viktor Orban gave what has come to be known as his "illiberal democracy' speech before an ethnic Hungarian audi- ence in Bane Tu§nad, Romania.' Several points in his remarks are worth noting: Orban urged his listeners to no longer regard the 1989 triumph over communism as the reference

entatives working for the state and for large economic entities closely tied to the state. But there are also K Street representatives for Russia, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, Turkey, Ethiopia, and practically all of the authoritarian states in the Middle East The toxic combination of unfair elections and c

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already certain to meet its goal for 2012. The countries with the best emissions-reduction records—Ukraine, Latvia, Estonia, Lithu- ania, Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary, Slovakia, Poland, and the Czech Republic—were all parts of the Soviet empire and there- fore look good for the same reason. Ted Nordhaus a

in 2001, becoming one of only two of the original signatories to refuse to ratify the plan, which went into effect in 2005. (The other holdout was Kazakhstan.) America's intransigence has infuriated many envi- ronmentalists, at home and elsewhere, but in practical terms the impact of our refusal to sign h

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