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... exchange rate. Sudan began exporting crude oil in the last quarter of 1999. Agricultural production remains important, because it employs 80% of the work force and contributes a third of GDP. The ...
www.exxun.com/Sudan/e_ec.html
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... the population. The manufacturing sector has diversified since the mid-1980s. Sugar and wood pulp remain important foreign exchange earners. In 2007, the sugar industry increased efficiency and diversification efforts, in response ...
www.exxun.com/Swaziland/e_ec.html
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... at around 1 million. Only 7% of the land area is arable. Cotton is the most important crop, but this sector is burdened with debt and an obsolete infrastructure. Mineral resources include ...
www.exxun.com/Tajikistan/e_ec.html
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African (37 tribes; largest and most important are Ewe, Mina, and Kabre) 99%, European and Syrian-Lebanese less than 1%
www.exxun.com/Togo/c_pp.html
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... imported. Cocoa, coffee, and cotton generate about 40% of export earnings with cotton being the most important cash crop. Togo is the world's fourth-largest producer of phosphate. The government's ...
www.exxun.com/Togo/e_ec.html
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... as well as the cocoa industry. The discovery of oil on Trinidad in 1910 added another important export. Independence was attained in 1962. The country is one of the most prosperous in ...
www.exxun.com/TrinidadandTobago/a_fg.html
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... a regional financial center, and tourism is a growing sector, although it is not proportionately as important as in many other Caribbean islands. The economy benefits from a growing trade surplus. The ...
www.exxun.com/TrinidadandTobago/e_ec.html
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Tunisia has a diverse economy, with important agricultural, mining, tourism, and manufacturing sectors. Governmental control of economic affairs while still heavy has gradually lessened over the past decade with increasing privatization, simplification ...
www.exxun.com/Tunisia/e_ec.html
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... today known as Mary) was one of the great cities of the Islamic world and an important stop on the Silk Road. Annexed by Russia between 1865 and 1885, Turkmenistan became a ...
www.exxun.com/Turkmenistan/a_fg.html
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1,300 km (Amu Darya and Kara Kum canal are important inland waterways) (2008)
www.exxun.com/Turkmenistan/g_tr.html
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... 2006. The TFF contributed nearly $9 million towards the government budget in 2006 and is an important cushion for meeting shortfalls in the government's budget. The US Government is also a ...
www.exxun.com/Tuvalu/e_ec.html
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... rainfall, and sizable mineral deposits of copper, cobalt, gold, and other minerals. Agriculture is the most important sector of the economy, employing over 80% of the work force. Coffee accounts for the ...
www.exxun.com/Uganda/e_ec.html
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After Russia, the Ukrainian republic was far and away the most important economic component of the former Soviet Union, producing about four times the output of the next-ranking republic. Its fertile ...
www.exxun.com/Ukraine/e_ec.html
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... in 1726 as a military stronghold, soon took advantage of its natural harbor to become an important commercial center. Claimed by Argentina but annexed by Brazil in 1821, Uruguay declared its independence ...
www.exxun.com/Uruguay/a_fg.html
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