However, the countries benefitting from assistance from the Community and the G-24 determinedly implemented the programme measures, including price and trade liberalization, cautious financial a
nd income policies, fiscal and financial reform and liberalization of the exchange regime. In addition, the authorities introduced a
series of important structural measures, with the aim of liberalizing private economic activity, privatizing state assets and building the legal and institutional framework necessary for the efficient functioning
...[+++]of a market-based economy.