growing
... currency, the kuna, stable. Nevertheless, difficult problems still remain, including a stubbornly high unemployment rate, a growing trade deficit and uneven regional development. The state retains a large role in the economy ...
www.exxun.com/Croatia/e_ec.html
growing
... prior to the elections in May and for Tropical Storm Noel reconstruction. Although the economy is growing at a respectable rate, high unemployment and underemployment remains an important challenge. The country suffers ...
www.exxun.com/DominicanRepublic/e_ec.html
growing
... all continue to overtax resources and stress society. The government has struggled to meet the demands of Egypt's growing population through economic reform and massive investment in communications and physical infrastructure
www.exxun.com/Egypt/a_fg.html
growing
growing producer of synthetic drugs; increasingly important transshipment zone for cannabis, cocaine, opiates, and synthetic drugs since joining the European Union and the Schengen Accord; potential money laundering related to organized crime ...
www.exxun.com/Estonia/i_ti.html
growing
deeply indented coast provides good natural harbors; short growing season
www.exxun.com/FalklandIslands_IslasMalvinas/b_mp.html
growing
... though still with a large subsistence sector. Sugar exports, remittances from Fijians working abroad, and a growing tourist industry - with 400,000 to 500,000 tourists annually - are the major sources of foreign exchange ...
www.exxun.com/Fiji/e_ec.html
growing
general assessment: adequate service by African standards and improving with the help of a growing mobile cell network system with three providers; mobile-cellular subscribership exceeded 50 per 100 persons in 2006 ...
www.exxun.com/Gabon/f_cm.html
growing
... all its needed supplies of natural gas and oil products. It has sizeable hydropower capacity, a growing component of its energy supplies. Despite the severe damage the economy suffered due to civil ...
www.exxun.com/Georgia/e_ec.html
growing
... pushed Germany's budget deficit well below the EU's 3% debt limit. Corporate restructuring and growing capital markets are setting the foundations that could help Germany meet the long-term challenges ...
www.exxun.com/Germany/e_ec.html
growing
... and cut flowers, have been declining. Financial services, construction, retail, and the public sector have been growing. Light tax and death duties make Guernsey a popular tax haven. The evolving economic integration ...
www.exxun.com/Guernsey/e_ec.html
growing
... Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) initiative. Despite improvements in tax collections, the government's fiscal deficit is growing due to increases in current expenditures and financial losses from the state energy and telephone ...
www.exxun.com/Honduras/e_ec.html
growing
... from industrial effluents and vehicle emissions; water pollution from raw sewage and runoff of agricultural pesticides; tap water is not potable throughout the country; huge and growing population is overstraining natural resources
www.exxun.com/India/b_mp.html
growing
... agriculture, and incremental progress on economic reforms still hinder foreign access to India's vast and growing market. Privatization of government-owned industries remains stalled and continues to generate political debate; populist ...
www.exxun.com/India/e_ec.html
growing
... products from the oilfields of the Persian Gulf and Indonesia. Its fish are of great and growing importance to the bordering countries for domestic consumption and export. Fishing fleets from Russia, Japan ...
www.exxun.com/IndianOcean/e_ec.html
growing
Roman Catholic 90% (approximately; about one-third practicing), other 10% (includes mature Protestant and Jewish communities and a growing Muslim immigrant community)
www.exxun.com/Italy/c_pp.html
growing
... GOLDING administration faces the difficult prospect of having to achieve fiscal discipline in order to maintain debt payments while simultaneously attacking a serious and growing crime problem that is hampering economic growth
www.exxun.com/Jamaica/e_ec.html
growing
... and rural areas is reducing use of fixed-line services; Internet penetration remains modest and slow-growing domestic: 1995 telecommunications law opened all non-fixed-line services to private competition; in 2005 ...
www.exxun.com/Jordan/f_cm.html
growing
... ruler KIM Jong Il, was officially designated as his father's successor in 1980, assuming a growing political and managerial role until the elder KIM's death in 1994. After decades of ...
www.exxun.com/Korea_North/a_fg.html
growing
general assessment: telecommunications infrastructure is growing; fixed line penetration remains low and concentrated in urban areas domestic: 4 mobile cellular service providers with growing coverage international: country code - 996; connections with other ...
www.exxun.com/Kyrgyzstan/f_cm.html
growing
... decrease from 2004; estimated potential opium production in 2005 was 28 metric tons, a significant decrease from 200 metric tons in 2003; unsubstantiated reports of domestic methamphetamine production; growing domestic methamphetamine problem
www.exxun.com/Laos/i_ti.html
growing
general assessment: rudimentary system consisting of a modest but growing number of landlines, a small microwave radio relay system, and a small radiotelephone communication system; mobile-cellular telephone system is expanding domestic ...
www.exxun.com/Lesotho/f_cm.html
growing
... imports about 75% of its food. Libya's primary agricultural water source remains the Great Manmade River Project, but significant resources are being invested in desalinization research to meet growing water demands
www.exxun.com/Libya/e_ec.html
