contribution
... that focuses on diversification, industrialization, and privatization, with the objective of reducing the oil sector's contribution to GDP to 9 percent by 2020. Muscat is attempting to "Omanize" the labor force ...
www.exxun.com/Oman/e_ec.html
contributions
... aging population, combined with high chronic unemployment, has pushed social security outlays to a level exceeding contributions, but higher government revenues from the cyclical upturn in 2006-07 and a 3% rise in ...
www.exxun.com/Germany/e_ec.html
contributions
... Islands (RMI) through 2023, at which time a Trust Fund made up of US and RMI contributions will begin perpetual annual payouts. Government downsizing, drought, a drop in construction, the decline in ...
www.exxun.com/MarshallIslands/e_ec.html
contributions
... through 2023, and establishes a Trust Fund into which the US and the FSM make annual contributions in order to provide annual payouts to the FSM in perpetuity after 2023. The country ...
www.exxun.com/Micronesia_FederatedStatesof/e_ec.html
contributions
... provided more than $480 million in budgetary support to the Palestinian Authority, supported Palestinian refugees through contributions to the UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), provided more than $250 million to Arab ...
www.exxun.com/SaudiArabia/e_ec.html
contributor
The Pacific Ocean is a major contributor to the world economy and particularly to those nations its waters directly touch. It provides low-cost sea transportation between East and West, extensive fishing ...
www.exxun.com/PacificOcean/e_ec.html
control
... as a buffer between the British and Russian empires until it won independence from notional British control in 1919. A brief experiment in democracy ended in a 1973 coup and a 1978 ...
www.exxun.com/Afghanistan/a_fg.html
control
19 August 1919 (from UK control over Afghan foreign affairs)
www.exxun.com/Afghanistan/d_gv.html
control
... and laying of mines along portions of their border; Coalition and Pakistani forces continue to monitor remote tribal areas to control the border with Afghanistan and stem terrorist and other illegal activities
www.exxun.com/Afghanistan/i_ti.html
control
... to make substantial progress toward a peaceful resolution. Turkey imposed an economic blockade on Armenia and closed the common border because of the Armenian separatists' control of Nagorno-Karabakh and surrounding areas
www.exxun.com/Armenia/a_fg.html
control
... of Adjacency created under the 2002 Differendum serves in lieu of the contiguous international boundary to control squatting in the sparsely inhabited rain forests of Belize's border region; Honduras claims Belizean ...
www.exxun.com/Belize/i_ti.html
control
landlocked; shares control of Lago Titicaca, world's highest navigable lake (elevation 3,805 m), with Peru
www.exxun.com/Bolivia/b_mp.html
control
... the sole exporter of natural gas. The law also required that the state energy company regain control over the five companies that were privatized during the 1990s - a process that is still ...
www.exxun.com/Bolivia/e_ec.html
control
... all the Communist-era payments bureaus were shut down; foreign banks, primarily from Western Europe, now control most of the banking sector. A sizeable current account deficit and high unemployment rate remain ...
www.exxun.com/BosniaandHerzegovina/e_ec.html
control
... in the Amazon region, used for domestic consumption; government has a large-scale eradication program to control cannabis; important transshipment country for Bolivian, Colombian, and Peruvian cocaine headed for Europe; also used ...
www.exxun.com/Brazil/i_ti.html
control
The Sultanate of Brunei's influence peaked between the 15th and 17th centuries when its control extended over coastal areas of northwest Borneo and the southern Philippines. Brunei subsequently entered a period ...
www.exxun.com/Brunei/a_fg.html
control
... 2004; the decline in opium production in the United Wa State Army's areas of greatest control was more than offset by increases in south and east Shan state; lack of government ...
www.exxun.com/Burma/i_ti.html
control
... that immediately cedes sovereignty of the Bakassi Peninsula to Cameroon with a phase-out of Nigerian control within two years while resolving patriation issues; implementation of the ICJ ruling on the Cameroon ...
www.exxun.com/Cameroon/i_ti.html
control
... a federation of four provinces, and the Constitution Act of 17 April 1982, which transferred formal control over the constitution from Britain to Canada, and added a Canadian Charter of Rights and ...
www.exxun.com/Canada/d_gv.html
control
... Island and North Rock; US works closely with Canada to intensify security measures to monitor and control legal and illegal personnel, transport, and commodities across the international border; sovereignty dispute with Denmark ...
www.exxun.com/Canada/i_ti.html
control
... of 2005 in which General BOZIZE was affirmed as president. The government still does not fully control the countryside, where pockets of lawlessness persist. Unrest in neighboring nations, Chad, Sudan, and the ...
www.exxun.com/CentralAfricanRepublic/a_fg.html
control
... continued to engage in criminal activities. The Colombian Government has stepped up efforts to reassert government control throughout the country, and now has a presence in every one of its administrative departments ...
www.exxun.com/Colombia/a_fg.html