downside
... export earnings. Tourism, financial services, subsistence farming, and cattle raising are other key sectors. On the downside, the government must deal with high rates of unemployment and poverty. Unemployment officially was 23.8 ...
www.exxun.com/Botswana/e_ec.html
downsized
... inclusion in a de facto free trade area. An absence of infrastructure, UN sanctions on the downsized Yugoslavia, and a Greek economic embargo over a dispute about the country's constitutional name ...
www.exxun.com/Macedonia/e_ec.html
downsizing
... 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 tourism, and less income from the renewal ...
www.exxun.com/MarshallIslands/e_ec.html
downstream
... but energy-starved Burma with backing from Thailand remains intent on building five hydro-electric dams downstream, despite identical regional and international protests; India seeks cooperation from Burma to keep Indian Nagaland ...
www.exxun.com/Burma/i_ti.html
downstream
... but energy-starved Burma, with backing from Thailand, remains intent on building five hydro-electric dams downstream despite regional and international protests; Chinese and Hong Kong authorities met in March 2008 to ...
www.exxun.com/China/i_ti.html
downtown
... Trade Agreement in September 2007. Bosnia's economy has been largely sheltered from the global financial downtown although key economic indicators have worsened. Key exporters in the metal, automobile and wood processing ...
www.exxun.com/BosniaandHerzegovina/e_ec.html
downturn
... growth rates. Economic growth has averaged over 10% in recent years. However, with the global economic downturn, Armenia's growth rate dropped to 6.8% in 2008. Armenia has managed to reduce poverty ...
www.exxun.com/Armenia/e_ec.html
downturn
... sector, a sound industrial sector, and a small, but highly developed agricultural sector. The global economic downturn led in 2008 to a recession that is widely expected to persist through 2009, following ...
www.exxun.com/Austria/e_ec.html
downturn
... continuing conflict with Armenia over the Nagorno-Karabakh region, pervasive corruption, and potential for a sharp downturn in the construction and real estate sectors. Trade with Russia and the other former Soviet ...
www.exxun.com/Azerbaijan/e_ec.html
downturn
... of more than 80% of the visitors. To help offset the effect of the global economic downturn, particularly on employment, the INGRAHAM administration plans to engage in infrastructure projects. Financial services constitute ...
www.exxun.com/Bahamas/e_ec.html
downturn
... the higher-end segment, but the sector will likely face declining revenues with the global economic downturn. The country enjoys one of the highest per capita incomes in the region. Offshore finance ...
www.exxun.com/Barbados/e_ec.html
downturn
... that entered the EU on 1 January 2007, has experienced strong growth since a major economic downturn in 1996. Successive governments have demonstrated commitment to economic reforms and responsible fiscal planning, but ...
www.exxun.com/Bulgaria/e_ec.html
downturn
... from 1997 to 2007. In 2008, growth slowed sharply as a result of the global economic downturn, US housing slump, plunging auto sector demand, and a drop in world commodity prices. Public ...
www.exxun.com/Canada/e_ec.html
downturn
... late 2008, as China commemorated the 30th anniversary of its historic economic reforms, the global economic downturn began to slow foreign demand for Chinese exports for the first time in many years ...
www.exxun.com/China/e_ec.html
