infrastructure
... limited size of domestic markets, lack of natural resources, periodic devastation from natural disasters, and inadequate infrastructure. Agriculture, employing about one-third of the working population, provides the economic base with major ...
www.exxun.com/CookIslands/e_ec.html
infrastructure
air pollution (from metallurgical plants) and resulting acid rain is damaging the forests; coastal pollution from industrial and domestic waste; landmine removal and reconstruction of infrastructure consequent to 1992-95 civil strife
www.exxun.com/Croatia/b_mp.html
infrastructure
... 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
infrastructure
... in the country's northern region through investments in education, public services, enterprise development, and transportation infrastructure. With the adoption of the US dollar as its currency in 2001, El Salvador lost ...
www.exxun.com/ElSalvador/e_ec.html
infrastructure
deforestation; desertification; soil erosion; overgrazing; loss of infrastructure from civil warfare
www.exxun.com/Eritrea/b_mp.html
infrastructure
... region, causing food production to drop by 62%. Even during the war, Eritrea developed its transportation infrastructure, asphalting new roads, improving its ports, and repairing war-damaged roads and bridges. Since the ...
www.exxun.com/Eritrea/e_ec.html
infrastructure
general assessment: outdated and unreliable fixed-line infrastructure heavily concentrated in Accra; competition among multiple mobile-cellular providers has spurred growth with subscribership about 35 per 100 persons and rising domestic: primarily ...
www.exxun.com/Ghana/f_cm.html
infrastructure
... the US; widespread crime and money laundering problem, but the lack of a well developed financial infrastructure limits the country's utility as a money laundering center; significant domestic cocaine and cannabis ...
www.exxun.com/Ghana/i_ti.html
infrastructure
... investment in the export sector, but concerns over security, the lack of skilled workers and poor infrastructure continued to hamper foreign participation. The distribution of income remains highly unequal with more than ...
www.exxun.com/Guatemala/e_ec.html
infrastructure
... of poverty. Investor confidence has been sapped by rampant corruption, a lack of electricity and other infrastructure, a lack of skilled workers, and the political uncertainty due to the death of President ...
www.exxun.com/Guinea/e_ec.html
infrastructure
... fighting between Senegalese-backed government troops and a military junta destroyed much of the country's infrastructure and caused widespread damage to the economy in 1998; the civil war led to a ...
www.exxun.com/Guinea_Bissau/e_ec.html
infrastructure
... driven by higher energy costs. Chronic problems include a shortage of skilled labor and a deficient infrastructure. The government is juggling a sizable external debt against the urgent need for expanded public ...
www.exxun.com/Guyana/e_ec.html
infrastructure
... recent years, registering positive growth since 2005, four tropical storms in 2008 severely damaged the transportation infrastructure and agricultural sector. US economic engagement under the Haitian Hemispheric Opportunity through Partnership Encouragement (HOPE ...
www.exxun.com/Haiti/e_ec.html
