diversify
... to reduce unemployment - nearing 20% in urban areas - despite the Moroccan Government's ongoing efforts to diversify the economy. Morocco's GDP growth rate slowed to 2.1% in 2007 as a result ...
www.exxun.com/Morocco/e_ec.html
diversify
... undertaking some reforms under a new reform-minded administration. Nigeria's former military rulers failed to diversify the economy away from its overdependence on the capital-intensive oil sector, which provides 20 ...
www.exxun.com/Nigeria/e_ec.html
diversify
... of GDP annually. To compensate for employment losses, the government has embarked on a program to diversify the agricultural sector and to stimulate other sectors of the economy. Activities such as tourism ...
www.exxun.com/SaintKittsandNevis/e_ec.html
diversify
... of tourism will boost economic prospects. Fish farming, crab fishing, and agriculture are being developed to diversify the local economy. Recent test drilling for oil may pave the way for development of ...
www.exxun.com/SaintPierreandMiquelon/e_ec.html
diversify
... education, infrastructure development, and government salaries. As part of its effort to attract foreign investment and diversify the economy, Saudi Arabia acceded to the WTO in December 2005 after many years of ...
www.exxun.com/SaudiArabia/e_ec.html
diversify
... 2007. Its economic fortunes depend mostly on declining oil resources, but the country is trying to diversify its earnings. In 2006 Yemen began an economic reform program designed to bolster non-oil ...
www.exxun.com/Yemen/e_ec.html
diversifying
... few years. Some policy measures, including tightening of fiscal and monetary policies, improving energy efficiency, and diversifying exports, have been introduced, but external borrowing has been the main mechanism used to manage ...
www.exxun.com/Belarus/e_ec.html
diversifying
... shifts in commodity prices, however, investments in the maquila and non-traditional export sectors are slowly diversifying the economy. Growth remains dependent on the economy of the US, its largest trading partner ...
www.exxun.com/Honduras/e_ec.html
diversifying
... reducing the current account deficit, limiting foreign borrowing, containing inflation, revising agricultural and fishing policies, and diversifying the economy. The government remains opposed to EU membership, primarily because of Icelanders' concern about ...
www.exxun.com/Iceland/e_ec.html
diversifying
... country's vast energy resources and exporting them to world markets; achieving a sustainable economic growth; diversifying the economy outside the oil, gas, and mining sectors; enhancing Kazakhstan's competitiveness; and strengthening ...
www.exxun.com/Kazakhstan/a_fg.html
diversifying
... During the 22-year term of Prime Minister MAHATHIR bin Mohamad (1981-2003), Malaysia was successful in diversifying its economy from dependence on exports of raw materials to expansion in manufacturing, services, and ...
www.exxun.com/Malaysia/a_fg.html
Diversifying
... deficit has expanded sharply as a result of high oil prices and imports of construction material. Diversifying beyond tourism and fishing and increasing employment are the major challenges facing the government. Over ...
www.exxun.com/Maldives/e_ec.html
diversion
... agricultural chemicals, pesticides; salination, water logging of soil due to poor irrigation methods; Caspian Sea pollution; diversion of a large share of the flow of the Amu Darya into irrigation contributes to ...
www.exxun.com/Turkmenistan/b_mp.html
diversity
smallest independent country on South American continent; mostly tropical rain forest; great diversity of flora and fauna that, for the most part, is increasingly threatened by new development; relatively small population, mostly ...
www.exxun.com/Suriname/b_mp.html
Diversity
... snowfields cover 60% of the total area; Spitsbergen Island is the site of the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, a seed repository established by the Global Crop Diversity Trust and the Norwegian Government
www.exxun.com/Svalbard/b_mp.html
diversity
... millennia preceding European exploration in the 18th century. This settlement pattern accounts for the complex linguistic diversity found on the archipelago to this day. The British and French, who settled the New ...
www.exxun.com/Vanuatu/a_fg.html
diversity
... about the environment, including loss of forests, shortages of energy and water, the decline in biological diversity, and air pollution; (h) the onset of the AIDS epidemic; and (i) the ultimate emergence ...
www.exxun.com/World/a_fg.html
diverted
... largest producer of licit opium for the pharmaceutical trade, but an undetermined quantity of opium is diverted to illicit international drug markets; transit point for illicit narcotics produced in neighboring countries and ...
www.exxun.com/India/i_ti.html
diverted
... in some cities; because the two main rivers that flowed into the Aral Sea have been diverted for irrigation, it is drying up and leaving behind a harmful layer of chemical pesticides ...
www.exxun.com/Kazakhstan/b_mp.html
diverting
... have drained most of the inhabited marsh areas east of An Nasiriyah by drying up or diverting the feeder streams and rivers; a once sizable population of Marsh Arabs, who inhabited these ...
www.exxun.com/Iraq/b_mp.html
Dives
lowest point: Indian Ocean 0 m highest point: Mont de la Dives on Ile Amsterdam (Ile Amsterdam et Ile Saint-Paul) 867 m; unnamed location on Ile Saint-Paul (Ile Amsterdam et ...
www.exxun.com/FrenchSouthernandAntarcticLands/b_mp.html
