||1:The biggest reason for Mr Erdogan’s poll victories is his delivery of rapidly rising living standards.||2:But the economy is slowing.||3:A gaping current-account deficit makes the country highly dependent on capital inflows; when global interest rates rise, Turkey could suffer.||4:And it is caught in a “middle-income trap”, losing competitiveness in the basic goods it produces, but unable to move up to higher-tech ones.||5:To keep growing, Turkey needs both liberalising reforms and foreign capital.||6:Mr Erdogan has shown scant interest in reform.||7:And although foreign investors stomach autocratic regimes around the world, they don’t much care for social instability of the sort that Mr Erdogan’s type of polarising politics usually portends.

||1:埃尔多安选举获胜的最重要因素是他迅速提高了土耳其人的生活水平。||2:但是，经济发展依然缓慢。||3:目前财政赤字的漏洞高度依赖流入的资本，一旦国际利率上调，土耳其就得遭殃。||4:而且，土耳其目前正面临“中等收入困境”，生产的日用品失去竞争力，但又无法像高科技顶端转移。||5:为了保持增长，土耳其不仅需要自由化改革，还要外资注入。||6:埃尔多安对改革已经极力反对。||7:尽管世界范围内，外资与独裁政权水火不容，但外商们也不会在乎埃尔多安的极权政治导致的经常性社会动荡。

||1:BESIDES choosing lawmakers, on November 4th voters in three American states and the District of Columbia considered measures to liberalise the cannabis trade.||2:Alaska and Oregon, where it is legal to provide “medical marijuana” to registered patients, voted to go further and let the drug be sold and taken for recreational purposes, as Colorado and Washington state already allow.||3:In DC, a measure to legalise the possession of small amounts for personal use was passed.||4:A majority of voters in Florida opted to join the lengthening list of places where people can seek a doctor’s note that lets them take the drug.||5:However, the measure fell just short of the 60% needed to change the state constitution.||6:Even so, that such a big state in the conservative South came so close to liberalising shows how America’s attitude to criminalising pot has changed.

||1:除了选择国会议员，11月4日美国三大洲以及哥伦比亚地区的选民们考虑开放大麻自由贸易。||2:在阿拉斯加和俄勒冈对已注册病人提供“医用大麻”是合法的，他们希望像科罗拉多和华盛顿已经实行的一样，可以通过投票进一步的允许买卖以及娱乐用途。||3:在华盛顿，把私人拥有少量大麻作为权衡合法化的标准提议已经被通过。||4:弗罗里达的大多数选民们希望越来越多的地方可以遵医嘱使用医用大麻。||5:然而，这种方法还是没有成功，毕竟需要60%选民的赞成来改变宪法。||6:即便如此，在保守的南方如此一个大洲差一点就通过议案，显示了美国对毒品罪的定义已经发生了改变。

||1: Saudi Arabia lifted a ban on female drivers. ||2: It also allowed cinemas to open for the first time in decades (the first film to be shown publicly was “Black Panther”). ||3: But these small liberalising steps were overshadowed by the arbitrary locking up of feminists, plutocrats and many others. ||4: The kingdom froze its links with Canada after Canada’s foreign minister mildly criticised such abuses. ||5: Jamal Khashoggi, a journalist, was murdered and dismembered by Saudi operatives in a consulate in Istanbul.

||1:沙特阿拉伯解除了对女性司机的禁令。||2:它还允许电影院几十年来首次开放(第一部公开放映的电影是《黑豹》)。||3:但是，女权主义者、财阀和其他许多人的专断监禁，导致这些微小的自由化举措黯然失色。||4:在加拿大外交部长对侵犯人权的行为提出中立批评后，沙特冻结了与加拿大的联系。||5: 贾迈勒·卡舒吉(Jamal Khashoggi)是一名记者，在伊斯坦布尔的一处领事馆被沙特特工谋杀并遭肢解。

The French cabinet gave its approval to a package of liberalising measures known after the new economy minister as the loi Macron. But the law, which will have a hard time gaining parliamentary approval, has already been watered down by the government.

法国内阁对新任经济部长里外·马克内提出的自由化一揽子计划表示支持。但是要想获得一会得支持还有很长的路要走，而且政府已经对该提案泼了凉水。

Liberalising gambling would fit well with Mr Abe’s radical reforms to boost Japan’s sluggish growth.

开放博彩业符合安倍晋三的激进改革思路，能推动日本经济复苏。

But there is little sense that China has abandoned its goal of liberalising its capital markets - eventually.

不过，人们几乎没有感觉到中国已放弃了最终放开其资本市场的目标。

Liberalising financial sectors and scrapping wasteful fuel subsidies would be good ways to begin.

从金融部分自由化和杜绝燃料浪费补贴的方法做起将会是好开端。

From Japan to Germany, governments are liberalising drug markets, sweeping away barriers to generics.

从日本到德国，国家政府都在放宽药品市场，为非专利药品的发展扫清障碍。

But Mr Ma won a resounding election victory in March on a platform of liberalising ties with China.

但是主张与加强与大陆的联系的马英九在三月以明显的优势赢得了选举。

The first wave of borrowing, then, was a rational response to a liberalising policy.

第一波借贷是对宽松政策的理性反应。

For China, liberalising capital outflows, while still limiting foreign access to its home market, does make sense.

对中国来说，放开资金外流方面的限制，同时仍然限制外资进入其本土市场的做法，确实是明智的。

After all, autocratic regimes like Singapore, South Korea and, above all, China, have leapt forward without liberalising .

而且，新加坡、韩国还有中国的独裁政体也在没有自由化的情况下实现了跃进。

Analysts say that liberalising natural gas prices will be a key step in encouraging local oil companies to invest more in natural gas.

分析师表示，天然气价格放开，将成为鼓励地方石油公司加大天然气投资的关键措施。

"As China is liberalising , we need someone who is familiar with the situation and who can look at the overall business, " the company said.

该公司表示：“随着中国不断放松管制，我们需要一位熟悉情况、可以管理整块业务的人。”

She also has good discussions on the virtues of microfinance, venture capital and liberalising trade.

关于小额信贷、风险资本和使贸易自由化的优点，她也做了有益的讨论。

Hayek’s views became more respectable, informing the liberalising , privatising governments of Margaret Thatcher.

哈耶克的观点变得更加值得尊敬，他告诉玛格丽特•撒切尔关于政府的自由化、私有化。

Mr Holmer cites as an example civil aviation talks aimed at liberalising cargo and passenger flights between the two countries.

霍尔姆列举了旨在开放两国间货运和客运航班服务限制的民航谈判为例。

Although Nicolas Sarkozy was elected on a promise to shake things up, the recession has tempered his liberalising zeal.

尽管萨科奇当选时许诺改变现状，经济萧条如今已浇灭了他对自由化的热情。

Such traditional German virtue is now all the more effective thanks to liberalising reforms of recent years.

近年来的自由主义改革，使德国的传统美德更能产生实际效应。

Economists have shown that liberalising trade increases incomes by enabling specialisation.

经济学家指出，贸易自由化可以通过实现专门化来增加收入。

That makes liberalising investment inflows a remote prospect.

开放陆资入台的前景由此变得渺茫起来。

Another factor that keeps Chinese policymakers away from liberalising the capital account is the yuan’s undervaluation.

另外一个让中国决策者不愿开放资本账户的原因，是人民币汇率被低估。

The European Union and the US were set on a collision course on Thursday night over the next stage of liberalising transatlantic aviation.

欧盟与美国昨晚在跨大西洋航空市场下一阶段的开放问题上产生分歧。

China, however, is only liberalising the renminbi’s exchange rate at a snail’s pace.

然而，中国人民币汇率自由化的步伐却如同蜗牛一样缓慢。

It could do this by liberalising the financial sector so that decisions pass from state-controlled banks to capital markets.

手段可以是开放金融业，将决定权从国有银行交给资本市场。

Granted, governments have been liberalising markets, from banking to gas supply, for years.

虽然不得不承认，近年来各国政府正纷纷开放市场，涉及范围从银行到燃气供应等。

Their banking system is very big and partly because of the rate of growth and partly because they are liberalising , there is a huge demand.

他们的银行体系十分庞大，部分是由于增长速度，部分是由于他们正在自由化，所以有着巨大的需求。

Curbs on shipping have been eased and talks launched with Beijing on liberalising cargo and passenger charter flights.

台湾当局放宽了对航运业的限制，并与大陆政府展开了谈判，商讨放开货物和旅客包机业务。

The new government is likely to be cautiously liberalising .

新政府可能会谨慎地放松限制。

Proper implementation across the union of the directive on liberalising the services market, passed in 2006, would be a start.

有效落实欧盟2006年通过的关于服务市场自由化的指令将是个良好的开端。