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... accounts for more than 80% of GDP. Foreign ownership of and investment in Hungarian firms are widespread, with cumulative foreign direct investment totaling more than $60 billion since 1989. Hungary issues investment ...
www.exxun.com/Hungary/e_ec.html
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... Norway and Denmark. Fallout from the Askja volcano of 1875 devastated the Icelandic economy and caused widespread famine. Over the next quarter century, 20% of the island's population emigrated, mostly to ...
www.exxun.com/Iceland/a_fg.html
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droughts; flash floods, as well as widespread and destructive flooding from monsoonal rains; severe thunderstorms; earthquakes
www.exxun.com/India/b_mp.html
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... and subsidies, particularly on food and energy, continue to weigh down the economy, and administrative controls, widespread corruption, and other rigidities undermine the potential for private-sector-led growth. As a result ...
www.exxun.com/Iran/e_ec.html
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general assessment: the 2003 liberation of Iraq severely disrupted telecommunications throughout Iraq including international connections; widespread government efforts to rebuild domestic and international communications through fiber optic links are in progress; the ...
www.exxun.com/Iraq/f_cm.html
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widespread harvesting of small plots of marijuana; transit country for South Asian heroin destined for Europe and North America; Indian methaqualone also transits on way to South Africa; significant potential for money ...
www.exxun.com/Kenya/i_ti.html
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... occurred. Large-scale international food aid deliveries have allowed the people of North Korea to escape widespread starvation since famine threatened in 1995, but the population continues to suffer from prolonged malnutrition ...
www.exxun.com/Korea_North/e_ec.html
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... in center and extreme southeast; raw sewage and industrial effluents polluting rivers in urban areas; deforestation; widespread erosion; desertification; deteriorating agricultural lands; serious air and water pollution in the national capital and ...
www.exxun.com/Mexico/b_mp.html
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... poppy and cannabis, mostly for CIS consumption; transshipment point for illicit drugs from Southwest Asia via Central Asia to Russia, Western Europe, and possibly the US; widespread crime and underground economic activity
www.exxun.com/Moldova/i_ti.html
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... negative GDP growth. This was compounded by falling prices for Mongolia's primary sector exports and widespread opposition to privatization. Growth was 10.6% in 2004, 5.5% in 2005, 7.5% in 2006, and ...
www.exxun.com/Mongolia/e_ec.html
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Nicaragua has widespread underemployment, one of the highest degrees of income inequality in the world, and the third lowest per capita income in the Western Hemisphere. While the country has progressed toward ...
www.exxun.com/Nicaragua/e_ec.html
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6.9% in metropolitan Lima; widespread underemployment (2007 est.)
www.exxun.com/Peru/e_ec.html
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... gains have only recently started to spur creation of a middle class and address Romania's widespread poverty. Corruption and red tape continue to handicap its business environment. Inflation rose in 2007 ...
www.exxun.com/Romania/e_ec.html
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... and other reforms. Repeated devastating defeats of the Russian army in World War I led to widespread rioting in the major cities of the Russian Empire and to the overthrow in 1917 ...
www.exxun.com/Russia/a_fg.html
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deforestation results from uncontrolled cutting of trees for fuel; overgrazing; soil exhaustion; soil erosion; widespread poaching
www.exxun.com/Rwanda/b_mp.html
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... to do so; the government continues to lack adequate anti-trafficking laws and, despite evidence of widespread trafficking abuses, did not report any criminal prosecutions, convictions, or prison sentences for trafficking crimes ...
www.exxun.com/SaudiArabia/i_ti.html
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... of better job opportunities in Europe. Senegal was also beset by an energy crisis that caused widespread blackouts in 2006 and 2007. The phosphate industry has struggled for two years to secure ...
www.exxun.com/Senegal/e_ec.html
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... became Serbia and Montenegro, a loose federation of the two republics with a federal level parliament. Widespread violence predominantly targeting ethnic Serbs in Kosovo in March 2004 caused the international community to ...
www.exxun.com/Serbia/a_fg.html
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... Tajikistan's economic situation remains fragile due to uneven implementation of structural reforms, corruption, weak governance, widespread unemployment, seasonal power shortages, and the external debt burden. Continued privatization of medium and large ...
www.exxun.com/Tajikistan/e_ec.html
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widespread use of slash and burn agriculture has led to deforestation and soil erosion
www.exxun.com/EastTimor/b_mp.html
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... higher international oil and gas prices. Overall prospects in the near future are discouraging because of widespread internal poverty, a poor educational system, government misuse of oil and gas revenues, and Ashgabat ...
www.exxun.com/Turkmenistan/e_ec.html
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draining of wetlands for agricultural use; deforestation; overgrazing; soil erosion; water hyacinth infestation in Lake Victoria; widespread poaching
www.exxun.com/Uganda/b_mp.html
