relies
... well-to-do modern economy that has featured extensive government ownership and intervention to one that relies more on market mechanisms. The government has partially or fully privatized many large companies, banks ...
www.exxun.com/France/e_ec.html
relies
Grenada relies on tourism as its main source of foreign exchange, especially since the construction of an international airport in 1985. Strong performances in construction and manufacturing, together with the development of ...
www.exxun.com/Grenada/e_ec.html
relies
... its arrears to the World Bank, paving the way for reengagement with the Bank. The government relies on formal international economic assistance for fiscal sustainability. Remittances are the primary source of foreign ...
www.exxun.com/Haiti/e_ec.html
relies
... inflows representing over a quarter of GDP, equivalent to nearly three-quarters of exports. The economy relies heavily on a narrow range of exports, notably bananas and coffee, making it vulnerable to ...
www.exxun.com/Honduras/e_ec.html
relies
general assessment: service to general public is poor but improving; the government relies on a radiotelephone network to communicate with remote areas domestic: multiple service providers; combined fixed-line and mobile-cellular ...
www.exxun.com/Laos/f_cm.html
relies
Small, landlocked, and mountainous, Lesotho relies on remittances from miners employed in South Africa and customs duties from the Southern Africa Customs Union for the majority of government revenue. However, the government ...
www.exxun.com/Lesotho/e_ec.html
relies
relies on assistance from Australia to keep out illegal cross-border activities from primarily Indonesia, including goods smuggling, illegal narcotics trafficking, and squatters and secessionists
www.exxun.com/PapuaNewGuinea/i_ti.html
relies
... manage and modernize Dakar's maritime port, and create a new special economic zone. Senegal still relies heavily upon outside donor assistance. Under the IMF's Highly Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) debt ...
www.exxun.com/Senegal/e_ec.html
relies
... communities. Uzbekistan is now the world's second-largest cotton exporter and fifth largest producer; it relies heavily on cotton production as the major source of export earnings. Other major export earners ...
www.exxun.com/Uzbekistan/e_ec.html
relieve
... new thermal power plant near Vlore and improved transmission line between Albania and Montenegro will help relieve the energy shortages. Also, the government is moving slowly to improve the poor national road ...
www.exxun.com/Albania/e_ec.html
relieve
... government restructured nearly all of its public external commercial debt, which will reduce interest payments and relieve liquidity concerns. A key short-term objective remains the reduction of poverty with the help ...
www.exxun.com/Belize/e_ec.html
relieved
... on the recommendation of the president; other ministers proposed by the prime minister and appointed and relieved of their duties by the president elections: president elected by the National Assembly for a ...
www.exxun.com/Hungary/d_gv.html
relieved
... growth in 2005-07 between 5-6% per year. Privatization of government-owned copper mines in the 1990s relieved the government from covering mammoth losses generated by the industry and greatly improved the chances ...
www.exxun.com/Zambia/e_ec.html
religion
Sunni Muslim (state religion) 99%, Christian and Jewish 1%
www.exxun.com/Algeria/c_pp.html
religion
... or PSL [Ahmed KHELIL]; Society of Peace Movement or MSP [Boudjerra SOLTANI]; Workers Party or PT [Louisa HANOUNE] note: a law banning political parties based on religion was enacted in March 1997
www.exxun.com/Algeria/d_gv.html
religion
... July 1994 as the country's first president, Alexandr LUKASHENKO has steadily consolidated his power through authoritarian means. Government restrictions on freedom of speech and the press, peaceful assembly, and religion continue
www.exxun.com/Belarus/a_fg.html
religion
Protestant 54%, Roman Catholic 30%, other 10%, no religion 6%
www.exxun.com/FrenchPolynesia/c_pp.html
religion
... The area came under Roman influence in the first centuries A.D. and Christianity became the state religion in the 330s. Domination by Persians, Arabs, and Turks was followed by a Georgian golden ...
www.exxun.com/Georgia/a_fg.html
religion
... stripes of blue alternating with white; there is a blue square in the upper hoist-side corner bearing a white cross; the cross symbolizes Greek Orthodoxy, the established religion of the country
www.exxun.com/Greece/d_gv.html
religion
... Holy See include religious freedom, international development, the environment, the Middle East, China, the decline of religion in Europe, terrorism, interreligious dialogue and reconciliation, and the application of church doctrine in an ...
www.exxun.com/HolySee_VaticanCity/a_fg.html
Religion
traditionally Buddhist and Confucianist, some Christian and syncretic Chondogyo (Religion of the Heavenly Way) note: autonomous religious activities now almost nonexistent; government-sponsored religious groups exist to provide illusion of religious freedom
www.exxun.com/Korea_North/c_pp.html
religion
... el Litani is the only major river in Near East not crossing an international boundary; rugged terrain historically helped isolate, protect, and develop numerous factional groups based on religion, clan, and ethnicity
www.exxun.com/Lebanon/b_mp.html
religion
plain green; green is the traditional color of Islam (the state religion)
www.exxun.com/Libya/d_gv.html
