LNG
... capita incomes in Latin America. Recent growth has been fueled by investments in liquefied natural gas (LNG), petrochemicals, and steel. Additional petrochemical, aluminum, and plastics projects are in various stages of planning ...
www.exxun.com/TrinidadandTobago/e_ec.html
LNNK
... Latvia or PCTVL [Jakovs PLINERS]; For the Fatherland and Freedom/Latvian National Independence Movement or TB/LNNK [Roberts ZILE, Maris GRINBLATS]; Harmony Center or SC [Janis URBANOVICS, Nils USAKOVS]; Latvian Social Democratic ...
www.exxun.com/Latvia/d_gv.html
load
... level of 1980; in connection with the start-up of new water purification plants, the pollution load of wastewater decreased; Estonia has more than 1,400 natural and manmade lakes, the smaller of ...
www.exxun.com/Estonia/b_mp.html
load
... more than one-quarter of Pitcairn's small labor force was arrested, putting the economy in a bind, since their services were required as lighter crew to load or unload passing ships
www.exxun.com/PitcairnIslands/e_ec.html
load
... experience an electricity crisis because state power supplier Eskom suffered supply problems with aged plants, necessitating "load-shedding" cuts to residents and businesses in the major cities. Daunting economic problems remain from ...
www.exxun.com/SouthAfrica/e_ec.html
loading
none; loading jetties at Kingston and Cascade
www.exxun.com/NorfolkIsland/g_tr.html
loan
... the help of strict fiscal targets agreed to in the 2004 renegotiation of an IMF standby loan, President FERNANDEZ has stabilized the country's financial situation, lowering inflation to less than 6 ...
www.exxun.com/DominicanRepublic/e_ec.html
loans
$698.2 million pledged in grants and concession loans for 2007 by international donors (2007)
www.exxun.com/Cambodia/e_ec.html
loans
... in Africa. The government has mortgaged a substantial portion of its oil earnings through oil-backed loans that have contributed to a growing debt burden and chronic revenue shortfalls. Economic reform efforts ...
www.exxun.com/Congo_Republic/e_ec.html
loans
... hamper growth in the industrial sector as entrepreneurs are unable to use land as collateral for loans. Drought struck again late in 2002, leading to a 3.3% decline in GDP in 2003 ...
www.exxun.com/Ethiopia/e_ec.html
loans
$1.316 billion in loans and grants (2007)
www.exxun.com/Ghana/e_ec.html
loans
... posts sizable trade deficits, which are covered by large transfer payments from abroad and by foreign loans. Roughly half of the government's external debt is owed to the US, its major ...
www.exxun.com/Israel/e_ec.html
loans
... high-level graft scandals in 2005 and 2006. In 2006 the World Bank and IMF delayed loans pending action by the government on corruption. The international financial institutions and donors have since ...
www.exxun.com/Kenya/e_ec.html
loans
... comes primarily from China and South Korea in the form of grants and long-term concessional loans. During the October 2007 summit, South Korea also agreed to develop some of North Korea ...
www.exxun.com/Korea_North/e_ec.html
loans
... from the 2006 Israel-Hizballah war; during the conflict, Saudi Arabia and Kuwait provided $1.5 billion in concessional loans to the Lebanese central bank to maintain confidence in the Lebanese currency. (2005
www.exxun.com/Lebanon/e_ec.html
loans
... 2007; pledged $230 million to development in Afghanistan; pledged $1 billion in export guarantees and soft loans to Iraq; pledged $133 million in direct grant aid, $187 million in concessional loans, and ...
www.exxun.com/SaudiArabia/e_ec.html
loans
... are the public sector rate; data for 2002-03 are the parallel market rate in 'Amman and Beirut; the official rate for repaying loans was 11.25 Syrian pounds per US dollars during 2004-06
www.exxun.com/Syria/e_ec.html
loans
... plans, Rogun will be the world's tallest dam. Tajikistan has also received substantial infrastructure development loans from the Chinese government to improve roads and an electricity transmission network. To help increase ...
www.exxun.com/Tajikistan/e_ec.html
loans
... needed support from the IMF has been suspended because of the government's arrears on past loans and the government's unwillingness to enact reforms that would stabilize the economy. The Reserve ...
www.exxun.com/Zimbabwe/e_ec.html
Lobamba
name: Mbabane geographic coordinates: 26 18 S, 31 06 E time difference: UTC+2 (7 hours ahead of Washington, DC during Standard Time) note: Lobamba (royal and legislative capital)
www.exxun.com/Swaziland/d_gv.html
Lobatse
9 districts and 5 town councils*; Central, Francistown*, Gaborone*, Ghanzi, Jwaneng*, Kgalagadi, Kgatleng, Kweneng, Lobatse*, Northeast, Northwest, Selebi-Pikwe*, Southeast, Southern
www.exxun.com/Botswana/d_gv.html
Lobaye
... singular - prefecture economique), and 1 commune**; Bamingui-Bangoran, Bangui**, Basse-Kotto, Haute-Kotto, Haut-Mbomou, Kemo, Lobaye, Mambere-Kadei, Mbomou, Nana-Grebizi*, Nana-Mambere, Ombella-Mpoko, Ouaka, Ouham, Ouham-Pende, Sangha-Mbaere ...
www.exxun.com/CentralAfricanRepublic/d_gv.html
lobbied
... an autonomous province within the constituent republic of Serbia. Over the next four decades, Kosovo Albanians lobbied for greater autonomy, and Kosovo was granted the status almost equal to that of a ...
www.exxun.com/Kosovo/a_fg.html
