caused
... wildlife trade; air and water pollution in Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo, and several other large cities; land degradation and water pollution caused by improper mining activities; wetland degradation; severe oil spills
www.exxun.com/Brazil/b_mp.html
caused
... Africa's most stable democratic governments. Repeated droughts during the second half of the 20th century caused significant hardship and prompted heavy emigration. As a result, Cape Verde's expatriate population is ...
www.exxun.com/CapeVerde/a_fg.html
caused
... the Gulf of Venezuela; Colombian-organized illegal narcotics, guerrilla, and paramilitary activities penetrate all of its neighbors' borders and have caused over 300,000 persons to flee the country, mostly into neighboring states
www.exxun.com/Colombia/i_ti.html
caused
... improve health services, diversify exports, promote tourism, and reduce the high population growth rate. The political problems caused the economy to contract in 2007. Remittances from 150,000 Comorans abroad help supplement GDP
www.exxun.com/Comoros/e_ec.html
caused
... of living remains at a lower level than before the downturn of the 1990s, which was caused by the loss of Soviet aid and domestic inefficiencies. Since late 2000, Venezuela has been ...
www.exxun.com/Cuba/e_ec.html
caused
... zero in 1999 and to -12.1% in 2000. The May 2000 Ethiopian offensive into northern Eritrea caused some $600 million in property damage and loss, including losses of $225 million in livestock ...
www.exxun.com/Eritrea/e_ec.html
caused
... a century as a British colony. Democratic rule was interrupted by two military coups in 1987, caused by concern over a government perceived as dominated by the Indian community (descendants of contract ...
www.exxun.com/Fiji/a_fg.html
caused
introduction of foreign species on Iles Crozet has caused severe damage to the original ecosystem; overfishing of Patagonian Toothfish around Iles Crozet and Iles Kerguelen
www.exxun.com/FrenchSouthernandAntarcticLands/b_mp.html
caused
... Senegalese-backed government troops and a military junta destroyed much of the country's infrastructure and caused widespread damage to the economy in 1998; the civil war led to a 28% drop ...
www.exxun.com/Guinea_Bissau/e_ec.html
caused
... Government and an ally to Salvadoran Government forces fighting leftist guerrillas. The country was devastated by Hurricane Mitch in 1998, which killed about 5,600 people and caused approximately $2 billion in damage
www.exxun.com/Honduras/a_fg.html
caused
... by 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 ...
www.exxun.com/Iceland/a_fg.html
caused
... in East Pakistan becoming the separate nation of Bangladesh. India's nuclear weapons testing in 1998 caused Pakistan to conduct its own tests that same year. The dispute between the countries over ...
www.exxun.com/India/a_fg.html
caused
... a "mud volcano," a tsunami in South Java, and major flooding in Jakarta, all of which caused additional damages in the billions of dollars. Donors are assisting Indonesia with its disaster mitigation ...
www.exxun.com/Indonesia/e_ec.html
caused
... economy, already saddled with a record of sluggish growth, will suffer an economic setback from damages caused by Hurricane Dean in August 2007. The economy faces serious long-term problems: high but ...
www.exxun.com/Jamaica/e_ec.html
caused
... deported nationalities) skewed the ethnic mixture and enabled non-Kazakhs to outnumber natives. Independence in 1991 caused many of these newcomers to emigrate. Kazakhstan's economy is larger than those of all ...
www.exxun.com/Kazakhstan/a_fg.html
caused
... base, were striking - growth averaged 6% per year in 1988-2007 except during the short-lived drop caused by the Asian financial crisis beginning in 1997. Despite this high growth rate, Laos remains ...
www.exxun.com/Laos/e_ec.html
caused
... bilateral assistance at the Paris II Donors Conference. The Israeli-Hizballah conflict in July-August 2006 caused an estimated $3.6 billion in infrastructure damage, and prompted international donors to pledge nearly $1 ...
www.exxun.com/Lebanon/e_ec.html
caused
... the end of World War I, it was closely tied to Austria, but the economic devastation caused by that conflict forced Liechtenstein to enter into a customs and monetary union with Switzerland ...
www.exxun.com/Liechtenstein/a_fg.html
caused
... the national capital and urban centers along US-Mexico border; land subsidence in Valley of Mexico caused by groundwater depletion note: the government considers the lack of clean water and deforestation national ...
www.exxun.com/Mexico/b_mp.html
caused
erosion caused by mining exploitation and forest fires
www.exxun.com/NewCaledonia/b_mp.html
caused
... the Marxist Sandinista guerrillas to power in 1979. Nicaraguan aid to leftist rebels in El Salvador caused the US to sponsor anti-Sandinista contra guerrillas through much of the 1980s. Free elections ...
www.exxun.com/Nicaragua/a_fg.html
caused
... linguistic differences between its Polynesian inhabitants and those of the rest of the Cook Islands, have caused it to be separately administered. The population of the island continues to drop (from a ...
www.exxun.com/Niue/a_fg.html
