extensive
... has more than compensated for the decline in steel. Most banks are foreign owned and have extensive foreign dealings. Agriculture is based on small family-owned farms. The economy depends on foreign ...
www.exxun.com/Luxembourg/e_ec.html
extensive
... it has so far lagged the region in attracting foreign investment and creating jobs, despite making extensive fiscal and business sector reforms. Official unemployment remains high at nearly 35%, but may be ...
www.exxun.com/Macedonia/e_ec.html
extensive
... farmers were forced into the cities by recurrent droughts in the 1970s and 1980s. Mauritania has extensive deposits of iron ore, which account for nearly 40% of total exports. The nation's ...
www.exxun.com/Mauritania/e_ec.html
extensive
$201.3 million; note - extensive French financial assistance (2005)
www.exxun.com/Mayotte/e_ec.html
extensive
... poorly served; mobile subscribers far outnumber fixed-line subscribers; domestic satellite system with 120 earth stations; extensive microwave radio relay network; considerable use of fiber-optic cable and coaxial cable domestic: low ...
www.exxun.com/Mexico/f_cm.html
extensive
heavy use of agricultural chemicals, including banned pesticides such as DDT, has contaminated soil and groundwater; extensive soil erosion from poor farming methods
www.exxun.com/Moldova/b_mp.html
extensive
Economic activity in Mongolia has traditionally been based on herding and agriculture. Mongolia has extensive mineral deposits. Copper, coal, gold, molybdenum, fluorspar, uranium, tin, and tungsten account for a large part of ...
www.exxun.com/Mongolia/e_ec.html
extensive
general assessment: highly developed and well maintained domestic: extensive fixed-line fiber-optic network; cellular telephone system is one of the largest in Europe with 5 major network operators utilizing the third ...
www.exxun.com/Netherlands/f_cm.html
extensive
general assessment: generally adequate facilities domestic: extensive interisland microwave radio relay links international: country code - 599; the Americas Region Caribbean Ring System (ARCOS-1) and the Americas-2 submarine cable systems provide ...
www.exxun.com/NetherlandsAntilles/f_cm.html
extensive
extensive Atlantic coastal plains rising to central interior mountains; narrow Pacific coastal plain interrupted by volcanoes
www.exxun.com/Nicaragua/b_mp.html
extensive
extensive funding from US
www.exxun.com/NorthernMarianaIslands/e_ec.html
extensive
... late 1960s boosted Norway's economic fortunes. The current focus is on containing spending on the extensive welfare system and planning for the time when petroleum reserves are depleted. In referenda held ...
www.exxun.com/Norway/a_fg.html
extensive
... Said overthrew the restrictive rule of his father; he has ruled as sultan ever since. His extensive modernization program has opened the country to the outside world while preserving the longstanding close ...
www.exxun.com/Oman/a_fg.html
extensive
... those nations its waters directly touch. It provides low-cost sea transportation between East and West, extensive fishing grounds, offshore oil and gas fields, minerals, and sand and gravel for the construction ...
www.exxun.com/PacificOcean/e_ec.html
extensive
land, extensive natural gas reserves, limited petroleum, poor quality coal, iron ore, copper, salt, limestone
www.exxun.com/Pakistan/b_mp.html
extensive
49.18 million note: extensive export of labor, mostly to the Middle East, and use of child labor (2007 est.)
www.exxun.com/Pakistan/e_ec.html
extensive
mostly mountains with narrow to extensive coastal lowlands
www.exxun.com/Philippines/b_mp.html
extensive
desertification; depletion of underground water resources; the lack of perennial rivers or permanent water bodies has prompted the development of extensive seawater desalination facilities; coastal pollution from oil spills
www.exxun.com/SaudiArabia/b_mp.html
extensive
general assessment: modern system domestic: extensive microwave radio relay, coaxial cable, and fiber-optic cable systems; mobile-cellular subscribership has been increasing rapidly international: country code - 966; landing point for the international ...
www.exxun.com/SaudiArabia/f_cm.html
extensive
disputes persist with Malaysia over deliveries of fresh water to Singapore, Singapore's extensive land reclamation works, bridge construction, and maritime boundaries in the Johor and Singapore Straits; in November 2007, the ...
www.exxun.com/Singapore/i_ti.html
extensive
lack of important arterial rivers or lakes requires extensive water conservation and control measures; growth in water usage outpacing supply; pollution of rivers from agricultural runoff and urban discharge; air pollution resulting ...
www.exxun.com/SouthAfrica/b_mp.html
extensive
... has achieved an enviable standard of living under a mixed system of high-tech capitalism and extensive welfare benefits. It has a modern distribution system, excellent internal and external communications, and a ...
www.exxun.com/Sweden/e_ec.html
extensive
... leading countries for fixed-line teledensity and infrastructure; mobile-cellular subscribership roughly 100 per 100 persons; extensive cable and microwave radio relay networks international: country code - 41; satellite earth stations - 2 Intelsat ...
www.exxun.com/Switzerland/f_cm.html
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