challenge
... rate of population growth - for the previous three years. The deteriorating world economy in 2009 will challenge tourism and remittance growth, a key source of foreign exchange. Nepal has considerable scope for ...
www.exxun.com/Nepal/e_ec.html
challenge
... first half of the decade, helping fuel a large balance of payments deficit that posed a challenge for economic managers. Inflationary pressures caused the central bank to raise its key rate steadily ...
www.exxun.com/NewZealand/e_ec.html
challenge
... full potential. Rising demands to fund health care, education, and the state pension system present a challenge to the Polish Government's effort to hold the consolidated public sector budget deficit under ...
www.exxun.com/Poland/e_ec.html
Challenge
... World Bank Heavily Indebted Poor Country (HIPC) initiative debt relief in 2005-06. Rwanda also received Millennium Challenge Account Threshold status in 2006. The government has embraced an expansionary fiscal policy to reduce ...
www.exxun.com/Rwanda/e_ec.html
challenge
... a sovereign and independent state in February 2008; ethnic Serbian municipalities along Kosovo's northern border challenge final status of Kosovo-Serbia boundary; several thousand NATO-led KFOR peacekeepers under UNMIK authority ...
www.exxun.com/Serbia/i_ti.html
challenge
... 2008 resettled tens of thousands of an estimated 100,000 internally displaced persons. The underlying economic policy challenge the country faces remains how best to use oil-and-gas wealth to lift the ...
www.exxun.com/EastTimor/e_ec.html
challenge
... surpluses fueled by the dynamic export sector; however, declines in oil and gas prices have reduced government revenues which will challenge his government's commitment to maintaining high levels of public investment
www.exxun.com/TrinidadandTobago/e_ec.html
challenge
... that of China, India, and the Philippines. Vietnam is working to create jobs to meet the challenge of a labor force that is growing by more than one-and-a-half million ...
www.exxun.com/Vietnam/e_ec.html
challenged
... in late 2008 has contributed to a weakening of the Australian dollar. Tight global liquidity has challenged Australia's banking sector, which relies heavily on international wholesale markets for funding. The economy ...
www.exxun.com/Australia/e_ec.html
challenged
... country the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), but in August 1998 his regime was itself challenged by a second insurrection again backed by Rwanda and Uganda. Troops from Angola, Chad, Namibia ...
www.exxun.com/Congo_DemocraticRepublic/a_fg.html
challenged
... downturn. Malta adopted the euro on 1 January 2008. The Maltese government in 2009 will be challenged to contain the budget deficit, which ballooned in 2008 to about 4.1% of GDP, placing ...
www.exxun.com/Malta/e_ec.html
challenged
... Sweden's long-successful economic formula of a capitalist system interlarded with substantial welfare elements was challenged in the 1990s by high unemployment and in 2000-02 by the global economic downturn, but ...
www.exxun.com/Sweden/a_fg.html
Challenger
lowest point: Challenger Deep in the Mariana Trench -10,924 m highest point: sea level 0 m
www.exxun.com/PacificOcean/b_mp.html
