announced
... bilateral creditors have eased the external debt situation, with Benin benefiting from a G8 debt reduction announced in July 2005, while pressing for more rapid structural reforms. An insufficient electrical supply continues ...
www.exxun.com/Benin/e_ec.html
announced
... tax take produced a fiscal surplus after years of large deficits. Debt relief from the G8 - announced in 2005 - also has significantly reduced Bolivia's public sector debt burden. Private investment as ...
www.exxun.com/Bolivia/e_ec.html
announced
... the country's primary surplus during the 2006 election. Following his second inauguration, "LULA" DA SILVA announced a package of further economic reforms to reduce taxes and increase investment in infrastructure. The ...
www.exxun.com/Brazil/e_ec.html
announced
... elections: last held 27 May 1990, but Assembly never allowed by junta to convene (junta has announced plans to hold elections in 2010) election results: percent of vote by party - NA; seats ...
www.exxun.com/Burma/d_gv.html
announced
... about 500,000 people, suffered dramatic declines in foreign visitor levels. In November 2007, the European Union announced new sanctions banning investment and trade in Burmese gems, timber and precious stones, while the ...
www.exxun.com/Burma/e_ec.html
announced
... stamps and coins. The islands are now self-financing except for defense. The British Geological Survey announced a 200-mile oil exploration zone around the islands in 1993, and early seismic surveys ...
www.exxun.com/FalklandIslands_IslasMalvinas/e_ec.html
announced
... with substantial job losses in the service sector. In July 2007 the Reserve Bank of Fiji announced the economy was expected to contract by 3.1% in 2007. Fiji's current account deficit ...
www.exxun.com/Fiji/e_ec.html
announced
... a secondary occupation for the rural population. High unemployment remains a persistent problem. In 2007 Russia announced plans to impose high tariffs on raw timber exported to Finland. The Finnish pulp and ...
www.exxun.com/Finland/e_ec.html
announced
... seizure of the private peanut firm Alimenta eliminated the largest purchaser of Gambian groundnuts. Despite an announced program to begin privatizing key parastatals, no plans have been made public that would indicate ...
www.exxun.com/Gambia/e_ec.html
announced
... The country fell under Communist rule following World War II. In 1956, a revolt and an announced withdrawal from the Warsaw Pact were met with a massive military intervention by Moscow. Under ...
www.exxun.com/Hungary/a_fg.html
announced
17 August 1945 (declared) note: recognized by the Netherlands on 27 December 1949; in August 2005, the Netherlands announced it recognized de facto Indonesian independence on 17 August 1945
www.exxun.com/Indonesia/d_gv.html
announced
... January 2003, it declared its withdrawal from the international Non-Proliferation Treaty. In mid-2003 Pyongyang announced it had completed the reprocessing of spent nuclear fuel rods (to extract weapons-grade plutonium ...
www.exxun.com/Korea_North/a_fg.html
announced
... cellular service, initiated in 2002, terminated in 2004; in January 2008 Orascom Telecom, an Egyptian company, announced that it had been granted a commercial license to provide mobile telephone services in North ...
www.exxun.com/Korea_North/f_cm.html
announced
... lifted in September 2003 after Libya accepted responsibility for the Lockerbie bombing. In December 2003, Libya announced that it had agreed to reveal and end its programs to develop weapons of mass ...
www.exxun.com/Libya/a_fg.html
announced
... This effort picked up steam after UN sanctions were lifted in September 2003 and as Libya announced in December 2003 that it would abandon programs to build weapons of mass destruction. Almost ...
www.exxun.com/Libya/e_ec.html
announced
0 km note: Libya has announced plans to build seven lines totaling 2,757 km of 1.435-m gauge track (2006)
www.exxun.com/Libya/g_tr.html
announced
... RAVALOMANANA, nearly causing secession of half of the country. In April 2002, the High Constitutional Court announced RAVALOMANANA the winner. RAVALOMANANA is now in his second term following a landslide victory in ...
www.exxun.com/Madagascar/a_fg.html
announced
... 1980s. Free elections in 1990, 1996, and 2001, saw the Sandinistas defeated, but voting in 2006 announced the return of former Sandinista President Daniel ORTEGA Saavedra. Nicaragua's infrastructure and economy - hard ...
www.exxun.com/Nicaragua/a_fg.html
announced
... the distribution of earnings from the oil industry. In 2003, the government began deregulating fuel prices, announced the privatization of the country's four oil refineries, and instituted the National Economic Empowerment ...
www.exxun.com/Nigeria/e_ec.html
announced
China announced plans in 1997 to open the islands for tourism.
www.exxun.com/ParacelIslands/e_ec.html
announced
... 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 growth in Peru's southern and central ...
www.exxun.com/Peru/e_ec.html
announced
... the budget deficit with the aim of eventually adopting the euro. The new government has also announced its intention to enact business-friendly reforms, reduce public sector spending growth, lower taxes, and ...
www.exxun.com/Poland/e_ec.html
