income
... and tourism, but persistent high unemployment has prompted many to leave the islands. This lower-middle-income country is vulnerable to natural disasters - tropical storms wiped out substantial portions of crops in ...
www.exxun.com/SaintVincentandtheGrenadines/e_ec.html
income
... roughly seven times the 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 ...
www.exxun.com/Seychelles/e_ec.html
income
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
income
... are supported with private-security militias. Somalia's arrears to the IMF continued to grow in 2008. Statistics on Somalia's GDP, growth, per capita income, and inflation should be viewed skeptically
www.exxun.com/Somalia/e_ec.html
income
... pragmatic, focusing on controlling inflation, maintaining a budget surplus, and using state-owned enterprises to deliver basic services to low-income areas as a means to increase job growth and household income
www.exxun.com/SouthAfrica/e_ec.html
income
... waters. There is a potential source of income from harvesting finfish and krill. The islands receive income from postage stamps produced in the UK, sale of fishing licenses, and harbor and landing ...
www.exxun.com/SouthGeorgiaSouthSandwichIs/e_ec.html
income
... remain at or below the poverty line for years despite rapid rises in average per capita income. In January 2007, the government introduced a new currency, the Sudanese Pound, at an initial ...
www.exxun.com/Sudan/e_ec.html
income
... 70% of government revenue this year, and worker remittances from South Africa substantially supplement domestically earned income. Swaziland is not poor enough to merit an IMF program; however, the country is struggling ...
www.exxun.com/Swaziland/e_ec.html
income
... is in the bottom ten percent of the world's economies in terms of per capita income. The economy depends heavily on agriculture, which accounts for more than 40% of GDP, provides ...
www.exxun.com/Tanzania/e_ec.html
income
... and telecommunications license fees, remittances from overseas workers, official transfers, and income from overseas investments. Growing income disparities and the vulnerability of the country to climatic change are among leading concerns for ...
www.exxun.com/Tuvalu/e_ec.html
income
The UAE has an open economy with a high per capita income and a sizable annual trade surplus. Successful efforts at economic diversification have reduced the portion of GDP based on oil ...
www.exxun.com/UnitedArabEmirates/e_ec.html
income
... and pension costs of an aging population, sizable trade and budget deficits, and stagnation of family income in the lower economic groups. The merchandise trade deficit reached a record $847 billion in ...
www.exxun.com/UnitedStates/e_ec.html
income
... 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 government accepted ...
www.exxun.com/Uzbekistan/e_ec.html