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... opportunities for direct foreign investment. Ongoing negotiations with the IMF involve problems of economic reforms and fiscal discipline. In 2001, exploratory oil wells in tracts 80 km offshore indicated potential extraction at ...
www.exxun.com/Mauritania/e_ec.html
fiscal
... administration was able to garner support from the opposition to successfully pass a pension and a fiscal reform. The administration continues to face many economic challenges including the need to upgrade infrastructure ...
www.exxun.com/Mexico/e_ec.html
Fiscal
... double digits in 2000-06, in 2007 inflation had slowed to 8%, while GDP growth reached 7.5%. Fiscal reforms, including the introduction of a value-added tax and reform of the customs service ...
www.exxun.com/Mozambique/e_ec.html
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1 April - 31 March note: this is the fiscal year for tax purposes
www.exxun.com/NewZealand/e_ec.html
fiscal
... 2007, the IMF approved a new poverty reduction and growth facility (PRGF) program that should create fiscal space for social spending and investment. The continuity of a relationship with the IMF reinforces ...
www.exxun.com/Nicaragua/e_ec.html
fiscal
... domestically designed and run program modeled on the IMF's Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility for fiscal and monetary management. In November 2005, Abuja won Paris Club approval for a debt-relief ...
www.exxun.com/Nigeria/e_ec.html
fiscal
... including a 52% real increase in the budget allocation for development in FY07. In 2007 the fiscal deficit - a result of chronically low tax collection and increased spending - exceeded Islamabad's target ...
www.exxun.com/Pakistan/e_ec.html
fiscal
... of 2006 saw the return of Alan GARCIA who, after a disappointing presidential term from 1985 to 1990, returned to the presidency with promises to improve social conditions and maintain fiscal responsibility
www.exxun.com/Peru/a_fg.html
fiscal
... markets reached historically low levels in late 2004, reflecting investor optimism regarding the government's prudent fiscal policies and openness to trade and investment. Despite the strong macroeconomic performance, underemployment and poverty ...
www.exxun.com/Peru/e_ec.html
fiscal
... alleviating poverty, given its high population growth and unequal distribution of income. MACAPAGAL-ARROYO averted a fiscal crisis by pushing for new revenue measures and, until recently, tightening expenditures. Declining fiscal deficits ...
www.exxun.com/Philippines/e_ec.html
fiscal
... in part by the depreciation of the currency, rising energy costs, a nation-wide drought affecting food prices, and a relaxation of fiscal discipline. Romania hopes to adopt the Euro by 2014
www.exxun.com/Romania/e_ec.html
fiscal
... Rwanda also received Millennium Challenge Account Threshold status in 2006. The government has embraced an expansionary fiscal policy to reduce poverty by improving education, infrastructure, and foreign and domestic investment and pursuing ...
www.exxun.com/Rwanda/e_ec.html
fiscal
... The Samoan Government has called for deregulation of the financial sector, encouragement of investment, and continued fiscal discipline, while at the same time protecting the environment. Observers point to the flexibility of ...
www.exxun.com/Samoa/e_ec.html
Fiscal
... an outbreak of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) in 2003, which curbed tourism and consumer spending. Fiscal stimulus, low interest rates, a surge in exports, and internal flexibility led to vigorous growth ...
www.exxun.com/Singapore/e_ec.html
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... continues to meet euro adoption criteria in 2008. Despite its 2006 pre-election promises to loosen fiscal policy and reverse the previous DZURINDA government's pro-market reforms, FICO's cabinet has ...
www.exxun.com/Slovakia/e_ec.html
fiscal
... s economic prospects for the medium term will depend on continued commitment to responsible monetary and fiscal policies and to the introduction of structural reforms to liberalize markets and promote competition. In ...
www.exxun.com/Suriname/e_ec.html
fiscal
... challenged in the 1990s by high unemployment and in 2000-02 by the global economic downturn, but fiscal discipline over the past several years has allowed the country to weather economic vagaries. Sweden ...
www.exxun.com/Sweden/a_fg.html
fiscal
... government passed a transitional budget to cover the latter half of 2007 and has moved the fiscal cycle to a calendar year, starting with the budget they passed for 2008 (FY06/07 est
www.exxun.com/EastTimor/e_ec.html
fiscal
... 2002-07, which were largely due to renewed investor interest in emerging markets, IMF backing, and tighter fiscal policy, the economy is still burdened by a high current account deficit and high external ...
www.exxun.com/Turkey/e_ec.html
fiscal
... economy. The islands are vulnerable to substantial damage from storms. The government is working to improve fiscal discipline, to support construction projects in the private sector, to expand tourist facilities, to reduce ...
www.exxun.com/VirginIslands/e_ec.html
fiscal
... of Zimbabwe faces a wide variety of difficult economic problems as it struggles with an unsustainable fiscal deficit, an overvalued official exchange rate, hyperinflation, and bare store shelves. Its 1998-2002 involvement in ...
www.exxun.com/Zimbabwe/e_ec.html
