energy
... Current issues include: developing a cohesive national identity; expanding the development of the country's vast energy resources and exporting them to world markets; achieving a sustainable economic growth; diversifying the economy ...
www.exxun.com/Kazakhstan/a_fg.html
energy
... good harvests, and foreign investment. Inflation, however, jumped to more than 10% in 2007. In the energy sector, the opening of the Caspian Consortium pipeline in 2001, from western Kazakhstan's Tengiz ...
www.exxun.com/Kazakhstan/e_ec.html
energy
... curb corruption. A severe drought from 1999 to 2000 compounded Kenya's problems, causing water and energy rationing and reducing agricultural output. As a result, GDP contracted by 0.2% in 2000. The ...
www.exxun.com/Kenya/e_ec.html
Energy
... and ultimately dismantle its existing plutonium-based program, North Korea expelled monitors from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). In January 2003, it declared its withdrawal from the international Non-Proliferation Treaty ...
www.exxun.com/Korea_North/a_fg.html
energy
buses, vans, street and railroad cars; synthetic fibers, agricultural machinery, fertilizers, washing machines, radios, electronics, pharmaceuticals, processed foods, textiles; note - dependent on imports for energy and raw materials
www.exxun.com/Latvia/e_ec.html
energy
... Libya were removed in April 2004, helping Libya attract more foreign direct investment, mostly in the energy sector. Libyan oil and gas licensing rounds continue to draw high international interest; the National ...
www.exxun.com/Libya/e_ec.html
energy
... and uses the Swiss franc as its national currency. It imports more than 90% of its energy requirements. Liechtenstein has been a member of the European Economic Area (an organization serving as ...
www.exxun.com/Liechtenstein/e_ec.html
energy
food processing, beverages, textiles, chemicals, iron, steel, cement, energy, pharmaceuticals
www.exxun.com/Macedonia/e_ec.html
energy
... driver of the economy. As an oil and gas exporter, Malaysia has profited from higher world energy prices, although the rising cost of domestic gasoline and diesel fuel forced Kuala Lumpur to ...
www.exxun.com/Malaysia/e_ec.html
energy
... only about 20% of its food needs, has limited fresh water supplies, and has few domestic energy sources. The economy is dependent on foreign trade, manufacturing (especially electronics and pharmaceuticals), and tourism ...
www.exxun.com/Malta/e_ec.html
energy
... challenges including the need to upgrade infrastructure, modernize labor laws, and allow private investment in the energy sector. CALDERON has stated that his top economic priorities remain reducing poverty and creating jobs
www.exxun.com/Mexico/e_ec.html
energy
... heavily on agriculture, featuring fruits, vegetables, wine, and tobacco. Moldova must import almost all of its energy supplies. Moldova's dependence on Russian energy was underscored at the end of 2005, when ...
www.exxun.com/Moldova/e_ec.html
energy
... severely reduced agricultural output and necessitated wheat imports at rising world prices. Continued dependence on foreign energy and Morocco's inability to develop small and medium size enterprises also contributed to the ...
www.exxun.com/Morocco/e_ec.html
Energy
Earthlife Namibia [Berthchen KOHRS] (environmentalist group); National Society for Human Rights or NSHR; The World Information Services of Energy or WISE (group against nuclear power)
www.exxun.com/Namibia/d_gv.html
Energy
... has been in effect since April 2006 and has expanded export opportunities for many agricultural and manufactured goods. Energy shortages fueled by high oil prices, however, are a serious bottleneck to growth
www.exxun.com/Nicaragua/e_ec.html
energy
... Ocean. Exploitation of offshore oil and gas reserves is playing an ever-increasing role in the energy supplies of the US, Australia, NZ, China, and Peru. The high cost of recovering offshore ...
www.exxun.com/PacificOcean/e_ec.html
energy
... two-thirds of export earnings. The government of Prime Minister SOMARE has expended much of its energy remaining in power. He was the first prime minister ever to serve a full five ...
www.exxun.com/PapuaNewGuinea/e_ec.html
energy
... and agricultural products, and by expectations for the Camisea natural gas megaproject and for other promising energy projects. Upon taking office, President GARCIA announced Sierra Exportadora, a program aimed at promoting economic ...
www.exxun.com/Peru/e_ec.html
energy
... 12.8% in 2007, it remains well above the EU average. Tightening labor markets, and rising global energy and food prices, pose a risk to consumer price stability. In December 2007 inflation reached ...
www.exxun.com/Poland/e_ec.html
energy
... development of Qatar's nonassociated natural gas reserves and increasing private and foreign investment in non-energy sectors. Oil and gas account for more than 60% of GDP, roughly 85% of export ...
www.exxun.com/Qatar/e_ec.html
energy
... the first time in eight years, driven in part by the depreciation of the currency, rising energy costs, a nation-wide drought affecting food prices, and a relaxation of fiscal discipline. Romania ...
www.exxun.com/Romania/e_ec.html
energy
... economic controls of the Communist period. In tandem with its prudent management of Russia's windfall energy wealth, which has helped the country rebound from the economic collapse of the 1990s, the ...
www.exxun.com/Russia/a_fg.html
