hard
... fell sharply. Tourism accounts for about one-fourth of GDP and is a primary source of hard currency earnings. Other sources of income are pearl farming and deep-sea commercial fishing. The ...
www.exxun.com/FrenchPolynesia/e_ec.html
hard
... across the border periodically to seek protection from Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) rebels; Kenya works hard to prevent the clan and militia fighting in Somalia from spreading across the border, which ...
www.exxun.com/Kenya/i_ti.html
hard
... face of rising oil and food prices before easing in the fourth quarter. Korea was hit hard by the global financial turmoil that began in September 2008. Stock prices fell by more ...
www.exxun.com/Korea_South/e_ec.html
hard
Once the center of the Caribbean slave trade, the island of Curacao was hard hit by the abolition of slavery in 1863. Its prosperity (and that of neighboring Aruba) was restored in ...
www.exxun.com/NetherlandsAntilles/a_fg.html
hard
deforestation; soil erosion; native flora and fauna hard-hit by invasive species
www.exxun.com/NewZealand/b_mp.html
hard
... 2006 announced the return of former Sandinista President Daniel ORTEGA Saavedra. Nicaragua's infrastructure and economy - hard hit by the earlier civil war and by Hurricane Mitch in 1998 - are slowly being ...
www.exxun.com/Nicaragua/a_fg.html
hard
... tourist sector, which employs about 30% of the labor force and provides more than 70% of hard currency earnings, and by tuna fishing. In recent years, the government has encouraged foreign investment ...
www.exxun.com/Seychelles/e_ec.html
hard
... and of light manufacturing for the domestic market. Alluvial diamond mining remains the major source of hard currency earnings accounting for nearly half of Sierra Leone's exports. The fate of the ...
www.exxun.com/SierraLeone/e_ec.html
hard
... WNW of the capital Honiara, the resulting tsunami devastated coastal areas of Western and Choiseul provinces with dozens of deaths and thousands dislocated; the provincial capital of Gizo was especially hard hit
www.exxun.com/SolomonIslands/b_mp.html
hard
... separation to rival clans within Ethiopia's Ogaden and southern Somalia's Oromo region; Kenya works hard to prevent the clan and militia fighting in Somalia from spreading south across the border ...
www.exxun.com/Somalia/i_ti.html
hard
... from Tongan communities overseas to offset its trade deficit. Tourism is the second-largest source of hard currency earnings following remittances. Tonga had 41,000 visitors in 2004. The government is emphasizing the ...
www.exxun.com/Tonga/e_ec.html
Hardap
13 regions; Caprivi, Erongo, Hardap, Karas, Khomas, Kunene, Ohangwena, Okavango, Omaheke, Omusati, Oshana, Oshikoto, Otjozondjupa
www.exxun.com/Namibia/d_gv.html
hardline
... A series of subsequent civil wars saw Kabul finally fall in 1996 to the Taliban, a hardline Pakistani-sponsored movement that emerged in 1994 to end the country's civil war and ...
www.exxun.com/Afghanistan/a_fg.html
hardline
... winning a majority of the seats in February 2004;; following the 2004 Majles elections, traditional and hardline conservatives have attempted to close ranks under the United Front of Principlists and the Broad ...
www.exxun.com/Iran/d_gv.html
