efficiency
... firm political control. It has rolled back limited reforms undertaken in the 1990s to increase enterprise efficiency and alleviate serious shortages of food, consumer goods, and services. The average Cuban's standard ...
www.exxun.com/Cuba/e_ec.html
efficiency
... one from each member state) appointed for a six-year term; note - for the sake of efficiency, the court can sit with 13 justices known as the "Grand Chamber"; Court of First ...
www.exxun.com/EuropeanUnion/d_gv.html
efficiency
... the near term from restructuring and partial privatization, and the state-owned sugar industry will conduct efficiency increasing modernizations. Export earnings from agriculture and mining have fallen sharply, while the import bill ...
www.exxun.com/Guyana/e_ec.html
efficiency
the upgrading of Hungary's standards in waste management, energy efficiency, and air, soil, and water pollution to meet EU requirements will require large investments
www.exxun.com/Hungary/b_mp.html
efficiency
general assessment: currently being modernized and expanded with the goal of not only improving the efficiency and increasing the volume of the urban service but also bringing telephone service to several thousand ...
www.exxun.com/Iran/f_cm.html
efficiency
... challenges still face the government including regaining investor confidence, restoring integrity to state institutions, promoting economic efficiency by privatizing moribund state institutions, and balancing relations with Australia, its former colonial ruler. Other ...
www.exxun.com/PapuaNewGuinea/e_ec.html
efficiency
... 1980s. Sugar and wood pulp remain important foreign exchange earners. In 2007, the sugar industry increased efficiency and diversification efforts, in response to a 17% decline in EU sugar prices. Mining has ...
www.exxun.com/Swaziland/e_ec.html
efficiency
... growing population of university graduates. Broader privatization, further liberalization of the investment code to increase foreign investment, improvements in government efficiency, and reduction of the trade deficit are among the challenges ahead
www.exxun.com/Tunisia/e_ec.html
efficient
general assessment: highly developed and efficient domestic: fixed-line subscribership has been in decline since the mid-1990s with mobile-cellular subscribership eclipsing it by the late 1990s; the fiber-optic net ...
www.exxun.com/Austria/f_cm.html
efficient
general assessment: relatively efficient system based on island-wide microwave radio relay network domestic: fixed telephone line density is about 10 per 100 persons; multiple providers of mobile cellular service with a ...
www.exxun.com/DominicanRepublic/f_cm.html
efficient
... to cut sugar subsidies. Sugar processing makes up one-third of industrial activity but is not efficient. Fiji's tourism industry was damaged by the December 2006 coup and is facing an ...
www.exxun.com/Fiji/e_ec.html
efficient
... euro has helped keep inflation low. Kosovo has maintained a budget surplus as a result of efficient tax collection and inefficient budget execution. While maintaining ultimate oversight, UNMIK continues to work with ...
www.exxun.com/Kosovo/e_ec.html
efficient
general assessment: highly developed, completely automated and efficient system, mainly buried cables domestic: fixed line teledensity over 50 per 100 persons; nationwide cellular telephone system with market for mobile-cellular phones virtually ...
www.exxun.com/Luxembourg/f_cm.html
efficient
... sectors; a stock exchange that is 17th largest in the world; and modern infrastructure supporting an efficient distribution of goods to major urban centers throughout the region. Growth has been robust since ...
www.exxun.com/SouthAfrica/e_ec.html
efficient
... public ownership and contained the growth of social welfare programs. Agriculture is intensive, highly mechanized, and efficient by European standards, producing about 60% of food needs with less than 2% of the ...
www.exxun.com/UnitedKingdom/e_ec.html
efficiently
... the current membership to 27. In order to ensure that the EU can continue to function efficiently with an expanded membership, the Treaty of Nice (in force as of 1 February 2003 ...
www.exxun.com/EuropeanUnion/a_fg.html
effluents
deforestation; soil erosion; water pollution from industrial and domestic effluents
www.exxun.com/Albania/b_mp.html
effluents
... and other poor farming practices; desertification; dumping of raw sewage, petroleum refining wastes, and other industrial effluents is leading to the pollution of rivers and coastal waters; Mediterranean Sea, in particular, becoming ...
www.exxun.com/Algeria/b_mp.html
effluents
deforestation; water pollution from sewage, industrial effluents, agricultural runoff; solid and sewage waste disposal
www.exxun.com/Belize/b_mp.html
effluents
deforestation (most of the country's forests - once the largest in West Africa - have been heavily logged); water pollution from sewage and industrial and agricultural effluents
www.exxun.com/Cote_d_Ivoire/b_mp.html
effluents
... coral reefs, beaches, and marine habitats; other water pollution from agricultural pesticides, raw sewage, and industrial effluents; limited natural fresh water resources away from the Nile, which is the only perennial water ...
www.exxun.com/Egypt/b_mp.html
