inefficient
Burma, a resource-rich country, suffers from pervasive government controls, inefficient economic policies, and rural poverty. The junta took steps in the early 1990s to liberalize the economy after decades of failure ...
www.exxun.com/Burma/e_ec.html
inefficient
Iran's economy is marked by an inefficient state sector, reliance on the oil sector (which provides 85% of government revenues), and statist policies that create major distortions throughout. Most economic activity ...
www.exxun.com/Iran/e_ec.html
inefficient
general assessment: inadequate; fixed-line telephone system is small and inefficient; trunks are primarily microwave radio relay; business data commonly transferred by a very small aperture terminal (VSAT) system domestic: no recent ...
www.exxun.com/Kenya/f_cm.html
Inefficient
... outward migration. Most of Kosovo's population lives in rural towns outside of the capital, Pristina. Inefficient, near-subsistence farming is common - the result of small plots, limited mechanization, and lack of ...
www.exxun.com/Kosovo/e_ec.html
inefficient
... trade policy reforms will improve the business environment. On the fiscal side, a value-added tax (VAT) regime, slated to begin in 2008, should help streamline the government's inefficient tax system
www.exxun.com/Laos/e_ec.html
inefficient
... improve further if the country addresses some of the remaining deficiencies in its business environment. An inefficient commercial court system, a rigid labor code, bureaucratic red tape, and persistent low-level corruption ...
www.exxun.com/Poland/e_ec.html
inefficient
... a cautious approach to economic reform, hoping to use gas and cotton sales to sustain its inefficient economy. Privatization goals remain limited. From 1998-2005, Turkmenistan suffered from the continued lack of adequate ...
www.exxun.com/Turkmenistan/e_ec.html
inefficient
... cellular system domestic: at independence in December 1991, Ukraine inherited a telephone system that was antiquated, inefficient, and in disrepair; more than 3.5 million applications for telephones could not be satisfied; telephone ...
www.exxun.com/Ukraine/f_cm.html
inefficiently
... resources, insufficient power supplies, and slow implementation of economic reforms. Bangladesh remains a poor, overpopulated, and inefficiently-governed nation. Although more than half of GDP is generated through the service sector, nearly ...
www.exxun.com/Bangladesh/e_ec.html
ineligible
... elected by popular vote for a four-year term (eligible for a second term, but then ineligible for four years); the chairmanship rotates every eight months and resumes where it left off ...
www.exxun.com/BosniaandHerzegovina/d_gv.html
ineligible
18 years of age (est.) for voluntary military service; non-Malays are ineligible to serve (2007)
www.exxun.com/Brunei/h_ml.html
ineligible
... IMF program in April 2002, after failing to meet spending and exchange rate targets, making it ineligible for additional debt forgiveness from the Paris Club. In the last year the government has ...
www.exxun.com/Nigeria/e_ec.html
inequality
... respectable rate, high unemployment and underemployment remains an important challenge. The country suffers from marked income inequality; the poorest half of the population receives less than one-fifth of GNP, while the ...
www.exxun.com/DominicanRepublic/e_ec.html
inequality
... income four times that of most of sub-Saharan African nations. but because of high income inequality, a large proportion of the population remains poor. Gabon depended on timber and manganese until ...
www.exxun.com/Gabon/e_ec.html
inequality
... is underway in several sectors but has not yet led to commercially viable crude deposits. The inequality of income distribution is one of the most extreme in the world. The government and ...
www.exxun.com/Guinea_Bissau/e_ec.html
inequality
... still primarily based on subsistence agriculture, especially livestock, although drought has decreased agricultural activity. The extreme inequality in the distribution of income remains a major drawback. Lesotho has signed an Interim Poverty ...
www.exxun.com/Lesotho/e_ec.html
inequality
Nicaragua has widespread underemployment, one of the highest degrees of income inequality in the world, and the third lowest per capita income in the Western Hemisphere. While the country has progressed toward ...
www.exxun.com/Nicaragua/e_ec.html
inequality
Sierra Leone is an extremely poor nation with tremendous inequality in income distribution. While it possesses substantial mineral, agricultural, and fishery resources, its physical and social infrastructure is not well developed, and ...
www.exxun.com/SierraLeone/e_ec.html
inequality
... measures that often increase, not decrease, its control over business decisions. A sharp increase in the inequality of income distribution has hurt the lower ranks of society since independence. In 2003, the ...
www.exxun.com/Uzbekistan/e_ec.html
inequitable
... economic and social concerns include low real wages, underemployment for a large segment of the population, inequitable income distribution, and few advancement opportunities for the largely Amerindian population in the impoverished southern ...
www.exxun.com/Mexico/a_fg.html
inequities
... and Macedonia to resolve the name issue. Some ethnic Albanians, angered by perceived political and economic inequities, launched an insurgency in 2001 that eventually won the support of the majority of Macedonia ...
www.exxun.com/Macedonia/a_fg.html
