11. Although Mexico has historically had a highly centralized economy , that, too, is changing, Valenzuela emphasizes. 12. "A centralized economy is good up to a point for poor countries, " she said. 13. Iliescu has done little to dismantle the centralized economy . 14. Their centralized economies and preposterous bureaucracies strangle progress. 15. The centralized economy spiraled after the collapse of the Soviet Union and other communist trading partners. 16. The Soviet centralized economy could afford to keep towns and cities alive in the vast Arctic. 17. Prime Minister-elect Benjamin Netanyahu said Thursday he was committed to replacing Israel's centralized economy with freewheeling capitalism. 18. Until 1989, Romania was one of the most centralized economies in the former countries of Eastern Europe. 19. Privatization of the formerly centralized economy was fast and wages in the private sector are steadily growing. 20. But he said government contacts open the possibility of much broader horizons in a mostly centralized economy .
