subsistence
... population, and few natural resources. The low educational level of the labor force contributes to a subsistence level of economic activity, high unemployment, and a heavy dependence on foreign grants and technical ...
www.exxun.com/Comoros/e_ec.html
Subsistence
... dramatic economic growth in recent years. Forestry, farming, and fishing are also major components of GDP. Subsistence farming predominates. Although pre-independence Equatorial Guinea counted on cocoa production for hard currency earnings ...
www.exxun.com/EquatorialGuinea/e_ec.html
subsistence
... and Justice (PFDJ). Like the economies of many African nations, the economy is largely based on subsistence agriculture, with 80% of the population involved in farming and herding. The Ethiopian-Eritrea war ...
www.exxun.com/Eritrea/e_ec.html
subsistence
... is one of the most developed of the Pacific island economies, though still with a large subsistence sector. Sugar exports, remittances from Fijians working abroad, and a growing tourist industry - with 400,000 ...
www.exxun.com/Fiji/e_ec.html
subsistence
... Since 1962, when France stationed military personnel in the region, French Polynesia has changed from a subsistence agricultural economy to one in which a high proportion of the work force is either ...
www.exxun.com/FrenchPolynesia/e_ec.html
subsistence
... in abject poverty. Two-thirds of all Haitians depend on the agricultural sector, mainly small-scale subsistence farming, and remain vulnerable to damage from frequent natural disasters, exacerbated by the country's ...
www.exxun.com/Haiti/e_ec.html
subsistence
7,870 economically active, not including subsistence farmers (2001 est.)
www.exxun.com/Kiribati/e_ec.html
subsistence
... Most of Kosovo's population lives in rural towns outside of the capital, Pristina. Inefficient, near-subsistence farming is common - the result of small plots, limited mechanization, and lack of technical expertise ...
www.exxun.com/Kosovo/e_ec.html
Subsistence
... support from Japan and China. Electricity is available in urban areas and in most rural districts. Subsistence agriculture, dominated by rice, accounts for about 40% of GDP and provides 80% of total ...
www.exxun.com/Laos/e_ec.html
subsistence
... benefits contained in the Africa Growth and Opportunity Act. The economy is still primarily based on subsistence agriculture, especially livestock, although drought has decreased agricultural activity. The extreme inequality in the distribution ...
www.exxun.com/Lesotho/e_ec.html
subsistence
Peninsular Malaysia - rubber, palm oil, cocoa, rice; Sabah - subsistence crops, rubber, timber, coconuts, rice; Sarawak - rubber, pepper, timber
www.exxun.com/Malaysia/e_ec.html
subsistence
... Islands received more than $1 billion in aid from the US from 1986-2002. Agricultural production, primarily subsistence, is concentrated on small farms; the most important commercial crops are coconuts and breadfruit. Small ...
www.exxun.com/MarshallIslands/e_ec.html
subsistence
... still depends on agriculture and livestock for a livelihood, even though many of the nomads and subsistence farmers were forced into the cities by recurrent droughts in the 1970s and 1980s. Mauritania ...
www.exxun.com/Mauritania/e_ec.html
subsistence
Economic activity consists primarily of subsistence farming and fishing. The islands have few mineral deposits worth exploiting, except for high-grade phosphate. The potential for a tourist industry exists, but the remote ...
www.exxun.com/Micronesia_FederatedStatesof/e_ec.html
Subsistence
... much of its annual budget, and the majority of the population remains below the poverty line. Subsistence agriculture continues to employ the vast majority of the country's work force. A substantial ...
www.exxun.com/Mozambique/e_ec.html
subsistence
... sector employs only about 3% of the population while about half of the population depends on subsistence agriculture for its livelihood. Namibia normally imports about 50% of its cereal requirements; in drought ...
www.exxun.com/Namibia/e_ec.html
Subsistence
Subsistence fishing and commercial trawling occur within refuge waters.
www.exxun.com/NavassaIsland/e_ec.html
subsistence
claimed by Haiti, source of subsistence fishing
www.exxun.com/NavassaIsland/i_ti.html
subsistence
... with minimal government services and insufficient funds to develop its resource base. The largely agrarian and subsistence-based economy is frequently disrupted by extended droughts common to the Sahel region of Africa ...
www.exxun.com/Niger/a_fg.html
subsistence
... Fund index of human development. It is a landlocked, Sub-Saharan nation, whose economy centers on subsistence crops, livestock, and some of the world's largest uranium deposits. Drought cycles, desertification, and ...
www.exxun.com/Niger/e_ec.html
subsistence
... 20% of GDP, 95% of foreign exchange earnings, and about 80% of budgetary revenues. The largely subsistence agricultural sector has failed to keep up with rapid population growth - Nigeria is Africa's ...
www.exxun.com/Nigeria/e_ec.html
subsistence
... government expenditures by reducing the public service by almost half. The agricultural sector consists mainly of subsistence gardening, although some cash crops are grown for export. Industry consists primarily of small factories ...
www.exxun.com/Niue/e_ec.html
