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... for foreign companies that have set up businesses and offices. The state retains monopolies in a number of sectors, including tobacco, the telephone network, and the postal service. Living standards are high ...
www.exxun.com/Monaco/e_ec.html
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... inhabitants fled the island. Some began to return in 1998, but lack of housing limited the number. The agriculture sector continued to be affected by the lack of suitable land for farming ...
www.exxun.com/Montserrat/e_ec.html
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... and supported the UK militarily in both World Wars. New Zealand's full participation in a number of defense alliances lapsed by the 1980s. In recent years, the government has sought to ...
www.exxun.com/NewZealand/a_fg.html
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... UF 3, ACT New Zealand 2, Progressive 1 note: results of 2005 election saw the total number of seats increase to 121 because the Maori Party won one more electorate seat than ...
www.exxun.com/NewZealand/d_gv.html
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... elected by popular vote by proportional representation to serve four-year terms); note - in 2009 the number of seats will change to 165 elections: last held 12 September 2005 (next to be ...
www.exxun.com/Norway/d_gv.html
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... seats; members are elected by popular vote to serve five-year terms); note - in 2009, the number of seats will change to 71 elections: last held 2 May 2004 (next to be ...
www.exxun.com/Panama/d_gv.html
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Spanish (official), Quechua (official), Aymara, and a large number of minor Amazonian languages
www.exxun.com/Peru/c_pp.html
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homogeneous Mediterranean stock; citizens of black African descent who immigrated to mainland during decolonization number less than 100,000; since 1990 East Europeans have entered Portugal
www.exxun.com/Portugal/c_pp.html
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... yearend 2007, the third largest reserves in the world. During President PUTIN's first administration, a number of important reforms were implemented in the areas of tax, banking, labor, and land codes ...
www.exxun.com/Russia/e_ec.html
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... Russia has made progress toward building the telecommunications infrastructure necessary for a market economy; the estimated number of mobile subscribers jumped from fewer than 1 million in 1998 to 150 million in ...
www.exxun.com/Russia/f_cm.html
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... declining, however, because of disputes with Canada over fishing quotas and a steady decline in the number of ships stopping at Saint Pierre. In 1992, an arbitration panel awarded the islands an ...
www.exxun.com/SaintPierreandMiquelon/e_ec.html
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... women) and a seeming reduction in the female population; the revised total was calculated using a 1993 number that was an average of the 1992 and 1994 migration figures (July 2008 est
www.exxun.com/Samoa/c_pp.html
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... warlords, and youth gangs in Cote d'Ivoire, Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone gradually abate, the number of refugees in border areas has begun to slowly dwindle; UN Mission in Sierra Leone ...
www.exxun.com/SierraLeone/i_ti.html
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... seats; 40 members are directly elected and 50 are elected on a proportional basis; note - the number of directly elected and proportionally elected seats varies with each election; the constitution mandates 1 ...
www.exxun.com/Slovenia/d_gv.html
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... taken in 1975 by the Somali Government; population counting in Somalia is complicated by the large number of nomads and by refugee movements in response to famine and clan warfare (July 2008 ...
www.exxun.com/Somalia/c_pp.html
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... atmosphere for foreign investment. With an estimated 40% unemployment rate, Swaziland's need to increase the number and size of small and medium enterprises and attract foreign direct investment is acute. Overgrazing ...
www.exxun.com/Swaziland/e_ec.html
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... assessment: fair system currently undergoing significant improvement and digital upgrades, including fiber-optic technology domestic: the number of fixed-line connections has increased markedly since 2000; mobile-cellular service growing rapidly and ...
www.exxun.com/Syria/f_cm.html
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... transit country for women and children trafficked for commercial sexual exploitation and forced labor; a significant number of women and children in the large and expanding Iraqi refugee community in Syria are ...
www.exxun.com/Syria/i_ti.html
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... market and its second-largest source of imports after Japan. China is also the island's number one destination for foreign direct investment. Strong trade performance in 2007 pushed Taiwan's GDP ...
www.exxun.com/Taiwan/e_ec.html
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unicameral National Parliament (number of seats can vary from 52 to 65; members elected by popular vote to serve five-year terms) elections: last held on 30 June 2007 (next elections due ...
www.exxun.com/EastTimor/d_gv.html
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consists of three atolls (Atafu, Fakaofo, Nukunonu), each with a lagoon surrounded by a number of reef-bound islets of varying length and rising to over 3 m above sea level
www.exxun.com/Tokelau/b_mp.html
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... need to reach even higher growth levels to create sufficient employment opportunities for an already large number of unemployed as well as the growing population of university graduates. Broader privatization, further liberalization ...
www.exxun.com/Tunisia/e_ec.html
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