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... especially Germany's. The Austrian economy also benefits greatly from strong commercial relations, especially in the banking and insurance sectors, with central, eastern, and southeastern Europe. The economy features a large service ...
www.exxun.com/Austria/e_ec.html
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... Since attaining independence from the UK in 1973, The Bahamas have prospered through tourism and international banking and investment management. Because of its geography, the country is a major transshipment point for ...
www.exxun.com/Bahamas/a_fg.html
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... is one of the wealthiest Caribbean countries with an economy heavily dependent on tourism and offshore banking. Tourism together with tourism-driven construction and manufacturing accounts for approximately 60% of GDP and ...
www.exxun.com/Bahamas/e_ec.html
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... reserves, Bahrain has turned to petroleum processing and refining and has transformed itself into an international banking center. King HAMAD bin Isa al-Khalifa, after coming to power in 1999, pushed economic ...
www.exxun.com/Bahrain/a_fg.html
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... focused on Islamic banking and is competing on an international scale with Malaysia as a worldwide banking center. Bahrain is actively pursuing the diversification and privatization of its economy to reduce the ...
www.exxun.com/Bahrain/e_ec.html
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... privatization, however, has been slow, particularly in the Federation, although more successful in the Republika Srpska. Banking reform accelerated in 2001 as all the Communist-era payments bureaus were shut down; foreign ...
www.exxun.com/BosniaandHerzegovina/e_ec.html
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... internal social cohesion. Plans for the future include upgrading the labor force, reducing unemployment, strengthening the banking and tourist sectors, and, in general, further widening the economic base beyond oil and gas
www.exxun.com/Brunei/e_ec.html
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... inadequate infrastructure, unpredictable import/export policies, deteriorating health and education systems, and endemic corruption. A major banking crisis in 2003 shuttered the country's 20 private banks and disrupted the economy. As ...
www.exxun.com/Burma/e_ec.html
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tourism, banking, insurance and finance, construction, construction materials, furniture
www.exxun.com/CaymanIslands/e_ec.html
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... gradual liberalization of prices, fiscal decentralization, increased autonomy for state enterprises, the foundation of a diversified banking system, the development of stock markets, the rapid growth of the non-state sector, and ...
www.exxun.com/China/e_ec.html
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... producers of cannabis, but mostly for domestic consumption; while rampant corruption and inadequate supervision leaves the banking system vulnerable to money laundering, the lack of a well-developed financial system limits the ...
www.exxun.com/Congo_DemocraticRepublic/i_ti.html
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... point to Europe reduced by ongoing political instability; while rampant corruption and inadequate supervision leave the banking system vulnerable to money laundering, the lack of a developed financial system limits the country ...
www.exxun.com/Cote_d_Ivoire/i_ti.html
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... economic crisis, with GDP contracted by more than 6%, with a significant increase in poverty. The banking system also collapsed, and Ecuador defaulted on its external debt later that year. In March ...
www.exxun.com/Ecuador/e_ec.html
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... trade and investment, and has embarked on a wave of privatizations extending to telecom, electricity distribution, banking, and pension funds. In late 2006, the government and the Millennium Challenge Corporation signed a ...
www.exxun.com/ElSalvador/e_ec.html
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... Areas of recent improvement include increasing foreign direct investment as well as growth in the construction, banking services and mining sectors. Georgia's main economic activities include the cultivation of agricultural products ...
www.exxun.com/Georgia/e_ec.html
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Self-sufficient Gibraltar benefits from an extensive shipping trade, offshore banking, and its position as an international conference center. The British military presence has been sharply reduced and now contributes about 7 ...
www.exxun.com/Gibraltar/e_ec.html
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Financial services - banking, fund management, insurance - account for about 23% of employment and about 55% of total income in this tiny, prosperous Channel Island economy. Tourism, manufacturing, and horticulture, mainly tomatoes and ...
www.exxun.com/Guernsey/e_ec.html
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printing; production of coins, medals, postage stamps; a small amount of mosaics and staff uniforms; worldwide banking and financial activities
www.exxun.com/HolySee_VaticanCity/e_ec.html
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... countries in the Western Hemisphere, with an extraordinarily unequal distribution of income and massive unemployment, is banking on expanded trade under the US-Central America Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) and on debt ...
www.exxun.com/Honduras/e_ec.html
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textiles, clothing, tourism, banking, shipping, electronics, plastics, toys, watches, clocks
www.exxun.com/HongKong/e_ec.html
banking
... faces difficult challenges in controlling transit of heroin and methamphetamine to regional and world markets; modern banking system provides conduit for money laundering; rising indigenous use of synthetic drugs, especially among young ...
www.exxun.com/HongKong/i_ti.html
