0 a market-oriented economy is organized so that companies, prices, and production are controlled naturally by the demand for goods and services rather than by government:
1 used for describing methods, systems, or actions that are based on the idea that companies, prices, and production should be controlled naturally by the demand for goods and services rather than by government:
2 used for describing products that have been made according to the needs and wants of customers:
This applies to, for example, the development from subsistence agriculture to commercial, market-oriented farming.
Indeed, in many countries big business proved supportive of market-oriented reforms and became a key partner in the governing coalition.
In many places, subsistence systems are evolving towards high-productivity (market-oriented) systems + partly as a response to a changing balance between urban and agricultural populations.
Neoliberal economists came to dominate the highest economic policy-making positions in both countries and promoted sweeping market-oriented reforms.
Consequently, market-oriented reforms will lead to relative decline in power and privileges for redistributive cadres.
On another front, we have noted a slow emergence of a market-oriented civil service despite retrenchments.
Furthermore, the social depth of market-oriented farming can only be estimated rather than actually measured.
Rapid increases in real costs, for example, suggest strong demands on existing resources and pressures for increased market-oriented production.
