lessen
... is encouraging private sector growth - especially in power generation, telecommunications, natural gas exploration, and petrochemicals - to lessen the kingdom's dependence on oil exports and to increase employment opportunities for the swelling ...
www.exxun.com/SaudiArabia/e_ec.html
lessen
... the Aral Sea and certain rivers half dry. Independent since 1991, the country seeks to gradually lessen its dependence on agriculture while developing its mineral and petroleum reserves. Current concerns include terrorism ...
www.exxun.com/Uzbekistan/a_fg.html
lessened
... agricultural, mining, tourism, and manufacturing sectors. Governmental control of economic affairs while still heavy has gradually lessened over the past decade with increasing privatization, simplification of the tax structure, and a prudent ...
www.exxun.com/Tunisia/e_ec.html
lessened
... the IMF, providing for full currency convertibility. However, strict currency controls and tightening of borders have lessened the effects of convertibility and have also led to some shortages that have further stifled ...
www.exxun.com/Uzbekistan/e_ec.html
lesser
... transshipment point for Southwest Asian opiates, hashish, and cannabis transiting the Balkan route and - to a lesser extent - cocaine from South America destined for Western Europe; limited opium and expanding cannabis production ...
www.exxun.com/Albania/i_ti.html
Lesser
the most northerly of the Leeward Islands in the Lesser Antilles
www.exxun.com/Anguilla/b_mp.html
Lesser
landlocked in the Lesser Caucasus Mountains; Sevana Lich (Lake Sevan) is the largest lake in this mountain range
www.exxun.com/Armenia/b_mp.html
lesser
... small amount of cannabis for domestic consumption; minor transit point for illicit drugs - mostly opium and hashish - moving from Southwest Asia to Russia and to a lesser extent the rest of Europe
www.exxun.com/Armenia/i_ti.html
lesser
... cultivation of cannabis and opium poppy, mostly for CIS consumption; small government eradication program; transit point for Southwest Asian opiates bound for Russia and to a lesser extent the rest of Europe
www.exxun.com/Azerbaijan/i_ti.html
lesser
major European transshipment point for Southwest Asian heroin and, to a lesser degree, South American cocaine for the European market; limited producer of precursor chemicals; vulnerable to money laundering because of corruption ...
www.exxun.com/Bulgaria/i_ti.html
lesser
... sexual exploitation, domestic servitude, street vending, and forced agricultural, mine, market and restaurant labor; to a lesser extent, children are trafficked from the Central African Republic to Cameroon, Nigeria, and the Democratic ...
www.exxun.com/CentralAfricanRepublic/i_ti.html
lesser
... forced labor in petty commerce or the fishing industry, or for commercial sexual exploitation; to a lesser extent, Chadian children are also trafficked to Cameroon, the Central African Republic, and Nigeria for ...
www.exxun.com/Chad/i_ti.html
lesser
... the economy is highly sensitive to fluctuations in international prices for these products, and, to a lesser extent, in climatic conditions. Despite government attempts to diversify the economy, it is still heavily ...
www.exxun.com/Cote_d_Ivoire/e_ec.html
Lesser
... and fauna, which are protected by an extensive natural park system; the most mountainous of the Lesser Antilles, its volcanic peaks are cones of lava craters and include Boiling Lake, the second ...
www.exxun.com/Dominica/b_mp.html
