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... oil and gas, metals, and telecom sectors. Despite Russia's recent success, serious problems persist. Oil, natural gas, metals, and timber account for more than 80% of exports and 30% of government ...
www.exxun.com/Russia/e_ec.html
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... subsistence) agriculture. It is the most densely populated country in Africa and is landlocked with few natural resources and minimal industry. Primary foreign exchange earners are coffee and tea. The 1994 genocide ...
www.exxun.com/Rwanda/e_ec.html
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with no natural rivers or streams, fresh water is in short supply, especially in summer, and provided by desalinization of sea water, collection of rain water, or imported via water tanker
www.exxun.com/SaintBarthelemy/b_mp.html
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The island, with its fine natural harbor at Castries, was contested between England and France throughout the 17th and early 18th centuries (changing possession 14 times); it was finally ceded to the ...
www.exxun.com/SaintLucia/a_fg.html
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the twin Pitons (Gros Piton and Petit Piton), striking cone-shaped peaks south of Soufriere, are one of the scenic natural highlights of the Caribbean
www.exxun.com/SaintLucia/b_mp.html
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... to a variety of external shocks including declines in European Union banana preferences, volatile tourism receipts, natural disasters, and dependence on foreign oil. High debt servicing obligations constrain the KING administration's ...
www.exxun.com/SaintLucia/e_ec.html
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... sectors and a recent increase in construction activity. This lower-middle-income country is vulnerable to natural disasters - tropical storms wiped out substantial portions of crops in 1994, 1995, and 2002. In ...
www.exxun.com/SaintVincentandtheGrenadines/e_ec.html
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... remaining members of the advisory municipal councils. The country remains a leading producer of oil and natural gas and holds more than 20% of the world's proven oil reserves. The government ...
www.exxun.com/SaudiArabia/a_fg.html
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petroleum, natural gas, iron ore, gold, copper
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... pay down domestic debt. The government is encouraging private sector growth - especially in power generation, telecommunications, natural gas exploration, and petrochemicals - to lessen the kingdom's dependence on oil exports and to ...
www.exxun.com/SaudiArabia/e_ec.html
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rapid population growth pressuring the environment; overharvesting of timber, expansion of cattle grazing, and slash-and-burn agriculture have resulted in deforestation and soil exhaustion; civil war depleted natural resources; overfishing
www.exxun.com/SierraLeone/b_mp.html
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industrial pollution; limited natural fresh water resources; limited land availability presents waste disposal problems; seasonal smoke/haze resulting from forest fires in Indonesia
www.exxun.com/Singapore/b_mp.html
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uranium and largely unexploited reserves of iron ore, tin, gypsum, bauxite, copper, salt, natural gas, likely oil reserves
www.exxun.com/Somalia/b_mp.html
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gold, chromium, antimony, coal, iron ore, manganese, nickel, phosphates, tin, uranium, gem diamonds, platinum, copper, vanadium, salt, natural gas
www.exxun.com/SouthAfrica/b_mp.html
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South Africa is a middle-income, emerging market with an abundant supply of natural resources; well-developed financial, legal, communications, energy, and transport sectors; a stock exchange that is 17th largest in ...
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... the Drake Passage between South America and Antarctica; the Polar Front (Antarctic Convergence) is the best natural definition of the northern extent of the Southern Ocean; it is a distinct region at ...
www.exxun.com/SouthernOcean/b_mp.html
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fish, guano, undetermined oil and natural gas potential
www.exxun.com/SpratlyIslands/b_mp.html
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small deposits of coal, natural gas, limestone, marble, and asbestos
www.exxun.com/Taiwan/b_mp.html
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hydropower, tin, phosphates, iron ore, coal, diamonds, gemstones, gold, natural gas, nickel
www.exxun.com/Tanzania/b_mp.html
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tin, rubber, natural gas, tungsten, tantalum, timber, lead, fish, gypsum, lignite, fluorite, arable land
www.exxun.com/Thailand/b_mp.html
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gold, petroleum, natural gas, manganese, marble
www.exxun.com/EastTimor/b_mp.html
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limited natural resources and overcrowding are contributing to emigration to New Zealand
www.exxun.com/Tokelau/b_mp.html
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... The country is one of the most prosperous in the Caribbean thanks largely to petroleum and natural gas production and processing. Tourism, mostly in Tobago, is targeted for expansion and is growing ...
www.exxun.com/TrinidadandTobago/a_fg.html
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Pitch Lake, on Trinidad's southwestern coast, is the world's largest natural reservoir of asphalt
www.exxun.com/TrinidadandTobago/b_mp.html
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