banks
... health and education systems, and endemic corruption. A major banking crisis in 2003 shuttered 20 private banks and disrupted the economy. As of 2008, the largest private banks operated under tight restrictions ...
www.exxun.com/Burma/e_ec.html
banks
... designed to spur business investment, increase efficiency in agriculture, improve trade, and recapitalize the nation's banks. The IMF is pressing for more reforms, including increased budget transparency, privatization, and poverty reduction ...
www.exxun.com/Cameroon/e_ec.html
banks
other: agricultural sector; automobile industry; business groups; chemical industry; commercial banks; communications sector; energy industry; environmentalists; public administration groups; steel industry; trade unions
www.exxun.com/Canada/d_gv.html
banks
... Tight global credit conditions have further restrained business and housing investment, despite the conservative lending practices and strong capitalization that made Canada's major banks among the most stable in the world
www.exxun.com/Canada/e_ec.html
banks
... More than 68,000 companies were registered in the Cayman Islands as of 2003, including almost 500 banks, 800 insurers, and 5,000 mutual funds. A stock exchange was opened in 1997. Tourism is ...
www.exxun.com/CaymanIslands/e_ec.html
banks
... to the global financial crisis, because the Turkish Cypriot financial sector is dominated by mainland Turkish banks, and because of its reliance on the hard-hit British and Turkish markets for tourism ...
www.exxun.com/Cyprus/e_ec.html
banks
4% note: This is the European Central Bank's rate on the marginal lending facility, which offers overnight credit to banks from the Eurosystem (31 December 2008)
www.exxun.com/EuropeanUnion/e_ec.html
banks
... has been one of the best performing economies within the EU in recent years and its banks and financial markets have avoided the worst of global financial crisis, the world slowdown has ...
www.exxun.com/Finland/e_ec.html
banks
... that relies more on market mechanisms. The government has partially or fully privatized many large companies, banks, and insurers, and has ceded stakes in such leading firms as Air France, France Telecom ...
www.exxun.com/France/e_ec.html
banks
... a boom in domestic demand following the rapid expansion of the country's financial sector. Domestic banks expanded aggressively in foreign markets, and consumers and businesses borrowed heavily in foreign-currency loans ...
www.exxun.com/Iceland/e_ec.html
Banks
mostly desert plateau in east, highland area in west; Great Rift Valley separates East and West Banks of the Jordan River
www.exxun.com/Jordan/b_mp.html
banks
... to the euro and reduce public spending by about 5% of GDP. The majority of companies, banks, and real estate have been privatized, although the state still holds sizable stakes in a ...
www.exxun.com/Latvia/e_ec.html
banks
... rebuilt much of its war-torn physical and financial infrastructure by borrowing heavily - mostly from domestic banks. In an attempt to reduce the ballooning national debt, the Rafiq HARIRI government in 2000 ...
www.exxun.com/Lebanon/e_ec.html
banks
... accounts for about 28% of GDP, has more than compensated for the decline in steel. Most banks are foreign owned and have extensive foreign dealings. Agriculture is based on small family-owned ...
www.exxun.com/Luxembourg/e_ec.html
