Challenge
... In December 2007, the US granted Malawi eligibility status to receive financial support within the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) initiative. Malawi will now begin a consultative process to develop a five-year ...
www.exxun.com/Malawi/e_ec.html
Challenge
... and Enhanced HIPC initiatives, and is now at a manageable level. In July 2007 the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) signed a Compact with Mozambique; the Mozambican government moved rapidly to ratify the ...
www.exxun.com/Mozambique/e_ec.html
challenge
... years and the central bank raised its key rate 13 times since January 2004 to finish 2007 at 8.25%. A large balance of payments deficit poses another challenge in managing the economy
www.exxun.com/NewZealand/e_ec.html
challenge
... 6 October 2007, MUSHARRAF was reelected President of Pakistan, although the Supreme Court was reviewing a challenge to his eligibility to serve another term; MUSHARRAF declared emergency rule from 3 November to ...
www.exxun.com/Pakistan/d_gv.html
challenge
... full potential. Rising demands to fund health care, education, and the state pension system present a challenge to the Polish government's effort to hold the consolidated public sector budget deficit under ...
www.exxun.com/Poland/e_ec.html
Challenge
... World Bank Heavily Indebted Poor Country (HIPC) initiative debt relief in 2005-06. Rwanda also received Millennium Challenge Account Threshold status in 2006. The government has embraced an expansionary fiscal policy to reduce ...
www.exxun.com/Rwanda/e_ec.html
challenge
... a sovereign and independent state in February 2008; ethnic Serbian municipalities along Kosovo's northern border challenge final status of Kosovo-Serbia boundary; several thousand NATO-led KFOR peacekeepers under UNMIK authority ...
www.exxun.com/Serbia/i_ti.html
challenge
... GDP growth in 2006 was negative, the economy probably rebounded in 2007. The underlying economic policy challenge the country faces remains how best to use oil-and-gas wealth to lift the ...
www.exxun.com/EastTimor/e_ec.html
challenge
... that of China, India, and the Philippines. Vietnam is working to create jobs to meet the challenge of a labor force that is growing by more than one-and-a-half million ...
www.exxun.com/Vietnam/e_ec.html
challenged
... country the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), but in August 1998 his regime was itself challenged by a second insurrection again backed by Rwanda and Uganda. Troops from Angola, Chad, Namibia ...
www.exxun.com/Congo_DemocraticRepublic/a_fg.html
challenged
... Sweden's long-successful economic formula of a capitalist system interlarded with substantial welfare elements was challenged in the 1990s by high unemployment and in 2000-02 by the global economic downturn, but ...
www.exxun.com/Sweden/a_fg.html
Challenger
lowest point: Challenger Deep in the Mariana Trench -10,924 m highest point: sea level 0 m
www.exxun.com/PacificOcean/b_mp.html
Challenger
lowest point: Bentley Subglacial Trench -2,540 m note: in the oceanic realm, Challenger Deep in the Mariana Trench is the lowest point, lying -10,924 m below the surface of the Pacific Ocean ...
www.exxun.com/World/b_mp.html
challenges
... in illicit economic activity and looms as one of Kabul's most serious policy concerns. Other long-term challenges include: budget sustainability, job creation, corruption, government capacity, and rebuilding war torn infrastructure
www.exxun.com/Afghanistan/e_ec.html
challenges
... program, although it continues Article IV consultations and ad hoc cooperation. Corruption, especially in the extractive sectors, and the negative effects of large inflows of foreign exchange, are major challenges facing Angola
www.exxun.com/Angola/e_ec.html
challenges
... military junta that took power in 1976. Democracy returned in 1983, and has persisted despite numerous challenges, the most formidable of which was a severe economic crisis in 2001-02 that led to ...
www.exxun.com/Argentina/a_fg.html
challenges
... treaties based on equidistance, while Iran continues to insist on an even one-fifth allocation and challenges Azerbaijan's hydrocarbon exploration in disputed waters; bilateral talks continue with Turkmenistan on dividing the ...
www.exxun.com/Azerbaijan/i_ti.html
challenges
... industry, extensive animal breeding and crop cultivation; air and water pollution also have repercussions for neighboring countries; uncertainties regarding federal and regional responsibilities (now resolved) had slowed progress in tackling environmental challenges
www.exxun.com/Belgium/b_mp.html
challenges
... averaged more than 6% growth since 2004, attracting significant amounts of foreign direct investment, but corruption in the public administration, a weak judiciary, and the presence of organized crime remain significant challenges
www.exxun.com/Bulgaria/e_ec.html
challenges
... in 2005. The new government, led by President Pierre NKURUNZIZA, signed a South African brokered ceasefire with the country's last rebel group in September of 2006 but still faces many challenges
www.exxun.com/Burundi/a_fg.html
challenges
... with the US, its neighbor to the south across an unfortified border. Canada faces the political challenges of meeting public demands for quality improvements in health care and education services, as well ...
www.exxun.com/Canada/a_fg.html
