slowing
... for change in inflexible labor and services markets. Growth may fall below 2% in 2008 as the strong euro, high oil prices, tighter credit markets, and slowing growth abroad take their toll
www.exxun.com/Germany/e_ec.html
slowing
... subsidy cuts has reduced Hungary's large budget deficit, but the reforms have dampened domestic consumption, slowing GDP growth to about 2% in 2007. The government will need to pass additional reforms ...
www.exxun.com/Hungary/e_ec.html
slowing
... to 2001, government efforts to revive economic growth proved short lived and were hampered by the slowing of the US, European, and Asian economies. In 2002-07, growth improved and the lingering fears ...
www.exxun.com/Japan/e_ec.html
slowing
... in 1999 and 8.5% in 2000. Growth fell back to 3.3% in 2001 because of the slowing global economy, falling exports, and the perception that much-needed corporate and financial reforms had ...
www.exxun.com/Korea_South/e_ec.html
slowing
... Spain one of the most dynamic economies in Europe and made it a global champion of freedom. Continuing challenges include Basque Fatherland and Liberty (ETA) terrorism, illegal immigration, and slowing economic growth
www.exxun.com/Spain/a_fg.html
slowly
... line between Albania and Montenegro will help relieve the energy shortages. Also, the government is moving slowly to improve the poor national road and rail network, a long-standing barrier to sustained ...
www.exxun.com/Albania/e_ec.html
slowly
... high unemployment and improving living standards. Structural reform within the economy, such as development of the banking sector and the construction of infrastructure, moves ahead slowly hampered by corruption and bureaucratic resistance
www.exxun.com/Algeria/e_ec.html
slowly
... has only recently begun making progress on economic reform, and old economic ties and structures are slowly being replaced. Several other obstacles impede Azerbaijan's economic progress: the need for stepped up ...
www.exxun.com/Azerbaijan/e_ec.html
slowly
... traditionally is a net importer of food. The private sector is growing and foreign investment is slowly increasing, but government spending, at nearly 40% of adjusted GDP, remains unreasonably high. The interethnic ...
www.exxun.com/BosniaandHerzegovina/e_ec.html
slowly
... economy of the Democratic Republic of the Congo - a nation endowed with vast potential wealth - is slowly recovering from two decades of decline. Conflict, which began in August 1998, dramatically reduced national ...
www.exxun.com/Congo_DemocraticRepublic/e_ec.html
slowly
... fall of the Berlin Wall. Since 2000, however, Croatia's economic fortunes have begun to improve slowly, with moderate but steady GDP growth between 4% and 6% led by a rebound in ...
www.exxun.com/Croatia/e_ec.html
slowly
... exported throughout Latin America and Africa during the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s. The country is now slowly recovering from a severe economic downturn in 1990, following the withdrawal of former Soviet subsidies ...
www.exxun.com/Cuba/a_fg.html
slowly
... and shifts in commodity prices, however, investments in the maquila and non-traditional export sectors are slowly diversifying the economy. Growth remains dependent on the economy of the US, its largest trading ...
www.exxun.com/Honduras/e_ec.html
slowly
... enacted numerous short-term reforms aimed at improving competitiveness and long-term growth. Italy has moved slowly, however, on implementing needed structural reforms, such as lightening the high tax burden and overhauling ...
www.exxun.com/Italy/e_ec.html
slowly
... announced the return of former Sandinista President Daniel ORTEGA Saavedra. Nicaragua's infrastructure and economy - hard hit by the earlier civil war and by Hurricane Mitch in 1998 - are slowly being rebuilt
www.exxun.com/Nicaragua/a_fg.html
slowly
... cellular coverage is generally good with some gaps in the east; fixed-line service is growing slowly and still lags in rural areas international: country code - 48; international direct dialing with automated ...
www.exxun.com/Poland/f_cm.html
slowly
Democracy is slowly being reestablished after the civil war from 1991 to 2002 that resulted in tens of thousands of deaths and the displacement of more than 2 million people (about one ...
www.exxun.com/SierraLeone/a_fg.html
slowly
0 migrant(s)/1,000 population note: refugees currently in surrounding countries are slowly returning (2008 est.)
www.exxun.com/SierraLeone/c_pp.html
slowly
... Liberia, and Sierra Leone gradually abate, the number of refugees in border areas has begun to slowly dwindle; UN Mission in Sierra Leone (UNAMSIL) has maintained over 4,000 peacekeepers in Sierra Leone ...
www.exxun.com/SierraLeone/i_ti.html
slowly
... accuses Eritrea of supporting Sudanese rebel groups; efforts to demarcate the porous boundary with Ethiopia proceed slowly due to civil and ethnic fighting in eastern Sudan; the boundary that separates Kenya and ...
www.exxun.com/Sudan/i_ti.html
slowly
... implement economic reform measures, encourage foreign investment, and bring revenues in line with expenditures has moved slowly. Progress depends on follow through on privatization, increased openness in government financial operations, progress toward ...
www.exxun.com/Togo/e_ec.html
slowly
... by unresolved dispute over the sovereignty of offshore islands; demarcation of the China-Vietnam boundary proceeds slowly and although the maritime boundary delimitation and fisheries agreements were ratified in June 2004, implementation ...
www.exxun.com/Vietnam/i_ti.html
