banks
... the European Central Bank's rate on the marginal lending facility, which offers overnight credit to banks from the Eurosystem; as of 1 January 2009 Slovakia became a member of the Economic ...
www.exxun.com/Slovakia/e_ec.html
banks
... thanks in part to conservative oversight by the European Central Bank, and government intervention to rescue banks on the scale seen elsewhere in Europe in 2008 was not necessary. After considerable success ...
www.exxun.com/Spain/e_ec.html
banks
... put Switzerland in a recession in 2009, particularly as global export demand stalls. Switzerland's largest banks suffered significant losses in 2008 and the country's largest bank accepted a government rescue ...
www.exxun.com/Switzerland/e_ec.html
banks
... implemented modest economic reforms in the past few years, including cutting lending interest rates, opening private banks, consolidating all of the multiple exchange rates, raising prices on some subsidized items, most notably ...
www.exxun.com/Syria/e_ec.html
banks
... government guidance of investment and foreign trade. In keeping with this trend, some large, state-owned banks and industrial firms have been privatized. Exports have provided the primary impetus for industrialization. The ...
www.exxun.com/Taiwan/e_ec.html
banks
... TARP) in October 2008. The government used some of these funds to purchase equity in US banks and other industrial corporations. In January 2009 the US Congress passed and President Barack OBAMA ...
www.exxun.com/UnitedStates/e_ec.html
banks
... neighbors, Argentina and Brazil. In 2001-02 Argentine citizens made massive withdrawals of dollars deposited in Uruguayan banks after bank deposits in Argentina were frozen, which led to a plunge in the Uruguayan ...
www.exxun.com/Uruguay/e_ec.html
Banladesh
conventional long form: People's Republic of Bangladesh conventional short form: Bangladesh local long form: Gana Prajatantri Banladesh local short form: Banladesh former: East Bengal, East Pakistan
www.exxun.com/Bangladesh/d_gv.html
banned
... 2006 High Court of London judgment reversing the UK government's 2004 Orders of Council that banned habitation on the islands; a small group of Chagossians visited Diego Garcia in April 2006 ...
www.exxun.com/BritishIndianOceanTerritory/i_ti.html
banned
... Yahya A. J. J. JAMMEH led a military coup in 1994 that overthrew the president and banned political activity. A new constitution and presidential elections in 1996, followed by parliamentary balloting in ...
www.exxun.com/Gambia/a_fg.html
banned
... Ghana endured a long series of coups before Lt. Jerry RAWLINGS took power in 1981 and banned political parties. After approving a new constitution and restoring multiparty politics in 1992, RAWLINGS won ...
www.exxun.com/Ghana/a_fg.html
banned
... nm note: military boundary line 50 nm in the Sea of Japan and the exclusive economic zone limit in the Yellow Sea where all foreign vessels and aircraft without permission are banned
www.exxun.com/Korea_North/b_mp.html
banned
heavy use of agricultural chemicals, including banned pesticides such as DDT, has contaminated soil and groundwater; extensive soil erosion from poor farming methods
www.exxun.com/Moldova/b_mp.html
