growth
... 27 average. A poor educational system, in particular, has been an obstacle to greater productivity and growth. Portugal has been increasingly overshadowed by lower-cost producers in Central Europe and Asia as ...
www.exxun.com/Portugal/e_ec.html
Growth
... been an important source of income, with estimated arrivals of nearly 5 million tourists in 2004. Growth fell off in 2001-03, largely due to the slowdown in the US economy, recovered in ...
www.exxun.com/PuertoRico/e_ec.html
growth
Qatar has experienced rapid economic growth over the last several years on the back of high oil prices, and in 2008 posted its eighth consecutive budget surplus. Economic policy is focused on ...
www.exxun.com/Qatar/e_ec.html
growth
... thanks to strong demand in EU export markets. Domestic consumption and investment have fueled strong GDP growth in recent years, but have led to large current account imbalances. Romania's macroeconomic gains ...
www.exxun.com/Romania/e_ec.html
growth
... investments and must be replaced or modernized if the country is to achieve broad-based economic growth. Corruption, lack of trust in institutions, and more recently, exchange rate uncertainty and the global ...
www.exxun.com/Russia/e_ec.html
growth
... AIDS; this can result in lower life expectancy, higher infant mortality, higher death rates, lower population growth rates, and changes in the distribution of population by age and sex than would otherwise ...
www.exxun.com/Rwanda/c_pp.html
growth
... education, infrastructure, and foreign and domestic investment and pursuing market-oriented reforms, although energy shortages, instability in neighboring states, and lack of adequate transportation linkages to other countries continue to handicap growth
www.exxun.com/Rwanda/e_ec.html
growth
... stimulate other sectors of the economy, such as tourism, export-oriented manufacturing, and offshore banking. Economic growth was above average for Latin America from 2004 to 2006, but has since slowed. Like ...
www.exxun.com/SaintKittsandNevis/e_ec.html
growth
Economic growth slowed in 2008 after reaching a 10 year high of nearly 7% in 2006, and will likely slow in 2009 with the global economic downturn, though it will be above ...
www.exxun.com/SaintVincentandtheGrenadines/e_ec.html
Growth
... In August 2005, Sao Tome signed on to a new 3-year IMF Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility (PRGF) program worth $4.3 million. Considerable potential exists for development of a tourist industry ...
www.exxun.com/SaoTomeandPrincipe/e_ec.html
growth
... foreign assets, while enabling Riyadh to pay down domestic debt. The government is encouraging private sector growth - especially in power generation, telecommunications, natural gas exploration, and petrochemicals - to lessen the kingdom's ...
www.exxun.com/SaudiArabia/e_ec.html
growth
... by 2.1% in 1993, Senegal made an important turnaround, thanks to the reform program, with real growth in GDP averaging over 5% annually during 1995-2008. Annual inflation had been pushed down to ...
www.exxun.com/Senegal/e_ec.html
Growth
... pre-independence, near-subsistence level, moving the island into the upper-middle income group of countries. Growth has been led by the tourist sector, which employs about 30% of the labor force ...
www.exxun.com/Seychelles/e_ec.html
