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Oman is a middle-income economy that is heavily dependent on dwindling oil resources, but sustained high oil prices in recent years have helped build Oman's budget and trade surpluses and ...
www.exxun.com/Oman/e_ec.html
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... tourism, subsistence agriculture, and fishing. The government is the major employer of the work force, relying heavily on financial assistance from the US. The Compact of Free Association with the US, entered ...
www.exxun.com/Palau/e_ec.html
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... Encouraged by duty-free access to the US and by tax incentives, US firms have invested heavily in Puerto Rico since the 1950s. US minimum wage laws apply. Sugar production has lost ...
www.exxun.com/PuertoRico/e_ec.html
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... growth, requiring food imports. Rwanda continues to receive substantial aid money and obtained IMF-World Bank Heavily Indebted Poor Country (HIPC) initiative debt relief in 2005-06. Rwanda also received Millennium Challenge Account ...
www.exxun.com/Rwanda/e_ec.html
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... longstanding territorial dispute with Canada, although it represents only 25% of what France had sought. France heavily subsidizes the islands to the great betterment of living standards. The government hopes an expansion ...
www.exxun.com/SaintPierreandMiquelon/e_ec.html
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... of food. Over the years, it has had difficulty servicing its external debt and has relied heavily on concessional aid and debt rescheduling. Sao Tome benefited from $200 million in debt relief ...
www.exxun.com/SaoTomeandPrincipe/e_ec.html
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... and modernize Dakar's maritime port, and create a new special economic zone. Senegal still relies heavily upon outside donor assistance. Under the IMF's Highly Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) debt relief ...
www.exxun.com/Senegal/e_ec.html
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... per capita GDP equal to that of the four largest West European countries. The economy depends heavily on exports, particularly in consumer electronics and information technology products. It was hard hit from ...
www.exxun.com/Singapore/e_ec.html
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... mines remaining active. Surrounded by South Africa, except for a short border with Mozambique, Swaziland is heavily dependent on South Africa from which it receives more than nine-tenths of its imports ...
www.exxun.com/Swaziland/e_ec.html
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... a skilled labor force. Timber, hydropower, and iron ore constitute the resource base of an economy heavily oriented toward foreign trade. Privately owned firms account for about 90% of industrial output, of ...
www.exxun.com/Sweden/e_ec.html
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Tanzania is one of the poorest countries in the world. The economy depends heavily on agriculture, which accounts for more than 40% of GDP, provides 85% of exports, and employs 80% of ...
www.exxun.com/Tanzania/e_ec.html
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This small, sub-Saharan economy is heavily dependent on both commercial and subsistence agriculture, which provides employment for 65% of the labor force. Some basic foodstuffs must still be imported. Cocoa, coffee ...
www.exxun.com/Togo/e_ec.html
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... of resources greatly restrain economic development and confine agriculture to the subsistence level. The people rely heavily on aid from New Zealand - about $4 million annually - to maintain public services with annual ...
www.exxun.com/Tokelau/e_ec.html
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... Trinidad and Tobago is the leading Caribbean producer of oil and gas, and its economy is heavily dependent upon these resources but it also supplies manufactured goods, notably food and beverages, as ...
www.exxun.com/TrinidadandTobago/e_ec.html
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... wants to develop the capability to project power beyond Turkey's coastal waters; the Navy is heavily involved in NATO, multinational, and UN operations; its roles include control of territorial waters and ...
www.exxun.com/Turkey/h_ml.html
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... North Atlantic sea lanes; only 35 km from France and linked by tunnel under the English Channel; because of heavily indented coastline, no location is more than 125 km from tidal waters
www.exxun.com/UnitedKingdom/b_mp.html
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... Uzbekistan is now the world's second-largest cotton exporter and fifth largest producer; it relies heavily on cotton production as the major source of export earnings. Other major export earners include ...
www.exxun.com/Uzbekistan/e_ec.html
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... groupings are the most common, different continental dispositions are recognized or taught in certain parts of the world, with some arrangements more heavily based on cultural spheres rather than physical geographic considerations
www.exxun.com/World/b_mp.html
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locally heavy rainfall causes periodic flooding on the plateau
www.exxun.com/Angola/b_mp.html
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San Miguel de Tucuman and Mendoza areas in the Andes subject to earthquakes; pamperos are violent windstorms that can strike the pampas and northeast; heavy flooding
www.exxun.com/Argentina/b_mp.html
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... from industrial emissions; rivers polluted from raw sewage, heavy metals, detergents; deforestation; forest damage from air pollution and resulting acid rain; soil contamination from heavy metals from metallurgical plants and industrial wastes
www.exxun.com/Bulgaria/b_mp.html
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... Still, it faces many of the serious problems facing other underdeveloped countries, such as a top-heavy civil service and a generally unfavorable climate for business enterprise. Since 1990, the government has ...
www.exxun.com/Cameroon/e_ec.html
