Some business leaders have expressed concern that a change in government could slow economic reforms, particularly if the new government includes leftist pro-labor parties.

The cover editorial and story say the rise of multi-party democracy in Mexico will stabilize the country politically but may slow free-market reforms.

The opening of product and service markets, however, is proving tough because interest groups are slowing reforms.

This could slow reforms.

If his margin is narrow, he will have to shift still further to the right, slowing economic and legal reforms and assuming a defiant attitude toward the West.

The conservative Parliament, under its ambitious chairman, Ruslan I. Khasbulatov, would then use its powers to slow or reverse economic reforms.

Western donors critical of Kenya's worsening human rights record and slowing economic and political reforms have either suspended aid or pegged it to tangible reforms.

Citic seems to have been unaffected by the four-month-long campaign against bourgeois liberalization that has constrained intellectual life and slowed economic reforms.

Mongolian relations with international organizations such as the International Monetary Fund and World Bank, which had been strained due to slow reforms under the previous regime, strengthened.

Questions over his policies had surfaced with the appointments of several new ministers, including managers of major industries who some believe may try to slow reforms.