droughts
recurring droughts; floods and severe storms are rare
www.exxun.com/Zimbabwe/b_mp.html
drove
... hardships, or starvation during the Khmer Rouge regime under POL POT. A December 1978 Vietnamese invasion drove the Khmer Rouge into the countryside, began a 10-year Vietnamese occupation, and touched off ...
www.exxun.com/Cambodia/a_fg.html
drove
... consecutive years and reached $28,500 in 2008 in purchasing power parity terms. Debt-driven consumer spending drove robust growth in the first half of the decade, helping fuel a large balance of ...
www.exxun.com/NewZealand/e_ec.html
drove
... destroyed an estimated $1.5 billion worth of property. Government spending on development and fighting the LTTE drove growth to about 6% per year in 2006-08, but high government spending and high oil ...
www.exxun.com/SriLanka/e_ec.html
drove
... divided into two territorial units, one English and the other Danish. Sugarcane, produced by slave labor, drove the islands' economy during the 18th and early 19th centuries. In 1917, the US purchased ...
www.exxun.com/VirginIslands/a_fg.html
DRP
... BARI]; Dhivehi Quamee Party or DQP [Hassan SAEED]; Dhivehi Rayyithunge Party (Maldivian People's Party) or DRP [Maumoon Abdul GAYOOM]; Islamic Democratic Party or IDP [Omar NASEER]; Maldivian Democratic Party or MDP ...
www.exxun.com/Maldives/d_gv.html
drug
... instability impede counterdrug efforts; most of the heroin consumed in Europe and Eurasia is derived from Afghan opium; vulnerable to drug money laundering through informal financial networks; regional source of hashish (2008
www.exxun.com/Afghanistan/i_ti.html
drug
disagrees with the US on the alignment the northern axis of a potential maritime boundary; continues to monitor and interdict drug dealers and Haitian and Cuban refugees in Bahamian waters
www.exxun.com/Bahamas/i_ti.html
drug
... become the mainstay of the economy. Current concerns include an unsustainable foreign debt, high unemployment, growing involvement in the South American drug trade, growing urban crime, and increasing incidences of HIV/AIDS
www.exxun.com/Belize/a_fg.html
drug
... in 1982, but leaders have faced difficult problems of deep-seated poverty, social unrest, and illegal drug production. In December 2005, Bolivians elected Movement Toward Socialism leader Evo MORALES president - by the ...
www.exxun.com/Bolivia/a_fg.html
drug
... by traffickers as a way station for narcotics air transshipments between Peru and Colombia; upsurge in drug-related violence and weapons smuggling; important market for Colombian, Bolivian, and Peruvian cocaine; illicit narcotics ...
www.exxun.com/Brazil/i_ti.html
drug
drug trafficking and illegally importing controlled substances are serious offenses in Brunei and carry a mandatory death penalty
www.exxun.com/Brunei/i_ti.html
drug
... South American cocaine for the European market; limited producer of precursor chemicals; vulnerable to money laundering because of corruption, organized crime; some money laundering of drug-related proceeds through financial institutions (2008
www.exxun.com/Bulgaria/i_ti.html
drug
illicit producer of cannabis for the domestic drug market and export to US; use of hydroponics technology permits growers to plant large quantities of high-quality marijuana indoors; increasing ecstasy production, some ...
www.exxun.com/Canada/i_ti.html
