Off
10.8%; note - this figure is the Low Income Cut-Off (LICO), a calculation that results in higher figures than found in many comparable economies; Canada does not have an official poverty line ...
www.exxun.com/Canada/e_ec.html
Offaly
... Clare, Cork, Donegal, Dublin, Galway, Kerry, Kildare, Kilkenny, Laois, Leitrim, Limerick, Longford, Louth, Mayo, Meath, Monaghan, Offaly, Roscommon, Sligo, Tipperary, Waterford, Westmeath, Wexford, Wicklow note: Cavan, Donegal, and Monaghan are part of ...
www.exxun.com/Ireland/d_gv.html
offense
... as domestic workers and laborers, and, to a lesser extent, commercial sexual exploitation; the most common offense was forcing workers to accept worse contract terms than those under which they were recruited ...
www.exxun.com/Qatar/i_ti.html
offenses
... own nationals and operations) in accordance with their own national laws; US law, including certain criminal offenses by or against US nationals, such as murder, may apply extraterritorially; some US laws directly ...
www.exxun.com/Antarctica/d_gv.html
offenses
... enact a comprehensive anti-trafficking law and did not report any prosecutions or convictions for trafficking offenses, despite reports of a substantial problem of involutary servitude and trafficking for commercial sexual exploitation
www.exxun.com/Bahrain/i_ti.html
offenses
... late 1994, which provides a blanket of confidentiality with regulated statutory gateways for investigation of criminal offenses, made the British Virgin Islands even more attractive to international business. Livestock raising is the ...
www.exxun.com/BritishVirginIslands/e_ec.html
offenses
drug trafficking and illegally importing controlled substances are serious offenses in Brunei and carry a mandatory death penalty
www.exxun.com/Brunei/i_ti.html
offenses
... 2007 report because it did not report any law enforcement efforts to prosecute and punish trafficking offenses in 2006 and continues to lack victim protection services or a systematic procedure to identify ...
www.exxun.com/Oman/i_ti.html
offensive
... GDP growth fell to zero in 1999 and to -12.1% in 2000. The May 2000 Ethiopian offensive into northern Eritrea caused some $600 million in property damage and loss, including losses of ...
www.exxun.com/Eritrea/e_ec.html
offensives
IDPs: 503,000 (government offensives against ethnic insurgent groups near the eastern borders; most IDPs are ethnic Karen, Karenni, Shan, Tavoyan, and Mon) (2007)
www.exxun.com/Burma/i_ti.html
offensives
IDPs: 200,000-350,000 (government offensives against rebels in Aceh; most IDPs in Aceh, Central Kalimantan, Central Sulawesi Provinces, and Maluku) (2007)
www.exxun.com/Indonesia/i_ti.html
offer
... lack of replacement parts for its existing equipment and the current severe shortage of fuel have increasingly affected operational capabilities, Cuba remains able to offer considerable resistance to any regional power (2008
www.exxun.com/Cuba/h_ml.html
offer
... assessment: the telephone system is experiencing significant changes; there are more than 1,000 companies licensed to offer communication services; access to digital lines has improved, particularly in urban centers; Internet and e ...
www.exxun.com/Russia/f_cm.html
offer
... s service sector also has grown. Telecommunication firms provide wireless services in most major cities and offer the lowest international call rates on the continent. In the absence of a formal banking ...
www.exxun.com/Somalia/e_ec.html
offer
... public telecommunications system was almost completely destroyed or dismantled during the civil war; private wireless companies offer service in most major cities and charge the lowest international rates on the continent domestic ...
www.exxun.com/Somalia/f_cm.html
offered
... Berber rather than Arab cultural heritage; Berbers have long agitated, sometimes violently, for autonomy; the government is unlikely to grant autonomy but has offered to begin sponsoring teaching Berber language in schools
www.exxun.com/Algeria/c_pp.html
offered
... by the country's political stability and high education levels, as well as the fiscal incentives offered in the free-trade zones. Exports have become more diversified in the past 10 years ...
www.exxun.com/CostaRica/e_ec.html
offered
... administrative structures, and widespread business closures. The Israeli withdrawal from the Gaza Strip in September 2005 offered some medium-term opportunities for economic growth, but continued Israeli-imposed crossings closures, which became ...
www.exxun.com/GazaStrip/e_ec.html
offered
... sustained economic upswing, boosted by increased domestic demand and strong exports. This and robust finances have offered the center-right government considerable scope to implement its reform program aimed at increasing employment ...
www.exxun.com/Sweden/e_ec.html
offered
... but not clearly delimited, Botswana-Zambia boundary in the river; 42,250 Congolese refugees in Zambia are offered voluntary repatriation in November 2006, most of whom are expected to return in the next ...
www.exxun.com/Zambia/i_ti.html
offering
... Chile rebuffs Bolivia's reactivated claim to restore the Atacama corridor, ceded to Chile in 1884, offering instead unrestricted but not sovereign maritime access through Chile for Bolivian natural gas and other ...
www.exxun.com/Bolivia/i_ti.html
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