downturn
... much of the economic growth between 2001 and 2007. The global financial crisis exacerbated the economic downturn. GDP growth in 2008 was 1.3%, well below the 3% or higher growth the country ...
www.exxun.com/Spain/e_ec.html
downturn
... elements was challenged in the 1990s by high unemployment and in 2000-02 by the global economic downturn, but fiscal discipline over the past several years has allowed the country to weather economic ...
www.exxun.com/Sweden/a_fg.html
downturn
... kept up the franc's long-term external value. The global financial crisis and resulting economic downturn could, however, put Switzerland in a recession in 2009, particularly as global export demand stalls ...
www.exxun.com/Switzerland/e_ec.html
downturn
... slowed down this year to about 5% and is expected to slow further with the global downturn. Growth has been fueled by investments in liquefied natural gas (LNG), petrochemicals, and steel. Additional ...
www.exxun.com/TrinidadandTobago/e_ec.html
downturn
... secessionist Confederacy of 11 southern slave states, and the Great Depression of the 1930s, an economic downturn during which about a quarter of the labor force lost its jobs. Buoyed by victories ...
www.exxun.com/UnitedStates/a_fg.html
downturn
... most major currencies discouraged US imports and made US exports more competitive abroad. The global economic downturn, the sub-prime mortgage crisis, investment bank failures, falling home prices, and tight credit pushed ...
www.exxun.com/UnitedStates/e_ec.html
downturn
... spending. After averaging growth of 5% annually during 1996-98, in 1999-2002 the economy suffered a major downturn, stemming largely from the spillover effects of the economic problems of its large neighbors, Argentina ...
www.exxun.com/Uruguay/e_ec.html
downturn
... experienced a general decline in economic conditions since the second intifada began in September 2000. The downturn has been largely a result of Israeli closure policies - the imposition of closures and access ...
www.exxun.com/WestBank/e_ec.html
downward
... however, has made it difficult to keep inflation and large current-account deficits from soaring, putting downward pressure on the country's currency. The government has not given up on joining the ...
www.exxun.com/Estonia/e_ec.html
downward
... fundamentals, the Swedish economy slid into recession in the third quarter of 2008 and growth continued downward in the fourth as deteriorating global conditions reduced export demand and consumption. On 3 February ...
www.exxun.com/Sweden/e_ec.html
Doyle
lowest point: Caribbean Sea 0 m highest point: Doyle's Delight 1,160 m
www.exxun.com/Belize/b_mp.html
dozen
... Hutu and Tutsi factions. More than 200,000 Burundians perished during the conflict that spanned almost a dozen years. Hundreds of thousands of Burundians were internally displaced or became refugees in neighboring countries ...
www.exxun.com/Burundi/a_fg.html
dozen
... it was declared a League of Nations mandate under UK administration. In stages over the next dozen years, Iraq attained its independence as a kingdom in 1932. A "republic" was proclaimed in ...
www.exxun.com/Iraq/a_fg.html
dozen
AM 20, FM 32 (plus about a dozen unlicensed stations operating), shortwave 4 (2007)
www.exxun.com/Lebanon/f_cm.html
