| There are a number of studies aimed at quantifying, at the sectoral level, the restrictiveness of measures affecting trade in services and at assessing their effects on welfare and on the growth path of specific countries. |
| Even though the restrictiveness of the regulatory regime has been declining over time, Canada lags both the OECD average and the United States, and this is the case both in the aggregate and in all the various sectors. |
| At that, the conversation turned to people's home towns, everyone trying to outdo each other on the smallness of scale or the restrictiveness of their upbringing. |
| The study also points out that a number of other investment restrictiveness surveys produce different results. |
| This definition's cultural and historical restrictiveness prevents us from providing the necessary supports to the various models of family that are actually found in reality. |
| The reason is not that there was no need, it was because of the restrictiveness of the very program in and of itself. |
