Then there is hope that the democratization program and multi-party elections next month will bring a measure of free enterprise and more consumer goods.

He designed, developed, and implemented a portfolio of democratization programs that were active in over 30 countries, mostly in the former communist bloc.

The United Nations spent $2 billion in the early 1990's on a national reconciliation and democratization program in Cambodia in which 22,000 troops oversaw an election.

It will expand our democratization programs and encourage free markets.

Today the Agency for International Development said that it had given his private foundation more than $145,000 in the last two years for democratization programs.

Albania, a country of 3.5 million people, has been swept by political and economic turbulence ever since the Communist Party began a cautious democratization program 13 months ago under President Alia.

Mr. Gorbachev warned loudest about the sudden need for bolstering civic order in a city that has been the model of nonviolent demonstration through these years of his own democratization program.

It should demand a strict democratization program, with measurable benchmarks, beginning with the removal of Mr. Montesinos from all political influence.

DRL uses resources from the HRDF, as well as those allocated to Regional Democracy Funds, to support democratization programs such as election monitoring and parliamentary development.

Time magazine noted, "arguably nothing - including the Bush administration's panoply of democratization programs - has done more than Al Jazeera to open minds and challenge authority in the Middle East."