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:
These principal crafts produced market-oriented commodities that were not exclusively directed to local family use.
Even if market-oriented policies enjoy initial popular backing, such support is likely to be eroded over time in the face of unemployment and income gaps.
Successive governments (usually from the technocratic ministries) announced plans to push for market-oriented changes.
Yet the specific effects of market-oriented reforms have been relatively modest and, on the whole, tended to enhance state authority rather than market forces.
However, the authors also stress the limitations of the market-oriented model that all five republics are trying to emulate.
It has often produced alarmist scenarios to support social policy solutions which withdraw the state from social provision in favour of market-oriented responses.
The impact of malapportionment on the capacities of new democratic regimes to sustain painful, market-oriented economic policy reforms also poses intriguing questions.
Rapid increases in real costs, for example, suggest strong demands on existing resources and pressures for increased market-oriented production.
