pressing
... have led to decreased tensions since 2002. Despite impressive gains in economic investment and output, India faces pressing problems such as significant overpopulation, environmental degradation, extensive poverty, and ethnic and religious strife
www.exxun.com/India/a_fg.html
pressure
... Communist regime, touching off a long and destructive war. The USSR withdrew in 1989 under relentless pressure by internationally supported anti-Communist mujahedin rebels. A series of subsequent civil wars saw Kabul ...
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Pressure
Population Pressure LAS (addresses the growing population pressures)
www.exxun.com/AmericanSamoa/d_gv.html
pressure
... inflation declined from 325% in 2000 to under 13% in 2007, the stabilization policy has put pressure on international net liquidity. Angola became a member of OPEC in late 2006 and in ...
www.exxun.com/Angola/e_ec.html
pressure
... covered by a perennial drifting polar icepack that, on average, is about 3 meters thick, although pressure ridges may be three times that thickness; clockwise drift pattern in the Beaufort Gyral Stream ...
www.exxun.com/ArcticOcean/b_mp.html
pressure
... of the two reactors was re-opened in 1995, but the Armenian government is under international pressure to close it due to concerns that the Soviet era design lacks important safeguards. Metsamor ...
www.exxun.com/Armenia/e_ec.html
pressure
... government has re-nationalized a number of private companies. In addition, businesses have been subject to pressure by central and local governments, e.g., arbitrary changes in regulations, numerous rigorous inspections, retroactive application ...
www.exxun.com/Belarus/e_ec.html
pressure
Observatoire de lutte contre la corruption et les malversations economiques or OLUCOME [Gabriel RUFYIRI] (anti-corruption pressure group) other: Hutu and Tutsi militias (loosely organized)
www.exxun.com/Burundi/d_gv.html
pressure
other: environmentalists; political pressure groups
www.exxun.com/CapeVerde/d_gv.html
pressure
ASODEGUE (Madrid-based pressure group for democratic reform); Global Witness (anti-corruption)
www.exxun.com/EquatorialGuinea/d_gv.html
pressure
... and low public debt. In 2007, however, a large current account deficit and rising inflation put pressure on Estonia's currency, which is pegged to the euro, highlighting the need for growth ...
www.exxun.com/Estonia/e_ec.html
pressure
... employers' union with 750,000 companies as members (claimed) French Guiana: conservationists; gold mining pressure groups; hunting pressure groups Guadeloupe: Christian Movement for the Liberation of Guadeloupe or KLPG; General Federation of Guadeloupe ...
www.exxun.com/France/d_gv.html
pressure
... growing market. Privatization of government-owned industries remains stalled and continues to generate political debate; populist pressure from within the UPA government and from its Left Front allies continues to restrain needed ...
www.exxun.com/India/e_ec.html
pressure
... the southern Indian Ocean; unique reversal of surface currents in the northern Indian Ocean; low atmospheric pressure over southwest Asia from hot, rising, summer air results in the southwest monsoon and southwest ...
www.exxun.com/IndianOcean/b_mp.html
pressure
... are a relatively new phenomenon in Iran and most conservatives still prefer to work through political pressure groups rather than parties, and often political parties or coalitions are formed prior to elections ...
www.exxun.com/Iran/d_gv.html
pressure
... in several disputes with foreign oil companies over the terms of production agreements; tensions continue. Upward pressure on the local currency continued in 2007 due to massive oil-related foreign-exchange inflows ...
www.exxun.com/Kazakhstan/e_ec.html
pressure
... Union (KANU) made itself the sole legal party in Kenya. MOI acceded to internal and external pressure for political liberalization in late 1991. The ethnically fractured opposition failed to dislodge KANU from ...
www.exxun.com/Kenya/a_fg.html
pressure
population pressure forcing settlement in marginal areas results in overgrazing, severe soil erosion, and soil exhaustion; desertification; Highlands Water Project controls, stores, and redirects water to South Africa
www.exxun.com/Lesotho/b_mp.html
pressure
Macau Society of Tourism and Entertainment or STDM [Stanley HO] (political pressure group); Roman Catholic Church; Union for Democracy Development [Antonio NG Kuok-cheong] (political pressure group)
www.exxun.com/Macau/d_gv.html
pressure
... 27 million in 2007, up 62% in three years. Macau's strong economic growth has put pressure its labor market prompting businesses to look abroad to meet their staffing needs. The resulting ...
www.exxun.com/Macau/e_ec.html
pressure
... has been unable to pass significant legislation, and anti-corruption measures have stalled. Population growth, increasing pressure on agricultural lands, corruption, and the spread of HIV/AIDS pose major problems for Malawi
www.exxun.com/Malawi/a_fg.html
pressure
... experienced single-party and military rule until 1991, when Gen. Ali SAIBOU was forced by public pressure to allow multiparty elections, which resulted in a democratic government in 1993. Political infighting brought ...
www.exxun.com/Niger/a_fg.html
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