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frequent earthquakes, landslides, volcanic activity; floods; periodic droughts
www.exxun.com/Ecuador/b_mp.html
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... narcotics; attractive location for cash-placement by drug traffickers laundering money because of dollarization and weak anti-money-laundering regime; increased activity on the northern frontier by trafficking groups and Colombian insurgents
www.exxun.com/Ecuador/i_ti.html
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despite a constitutional ban against religious-based parties and political activity, the technically illegal Muslim Brotherhood constitutes Hosni MUBARAK's potentially most significant political opposition; MUBARAK has alternated between tolerating limited political ...
www.exxun.com/Egypt/d_gv.html
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... of the African continent, Egypt is bisected by the highly fertile Nile valley, where most economic activity takes place. In the last 30 years, the government has reformed the highly centralized economy ...
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known as the Land of Volcanoes; frequent and sometimes destructive earthquakes and volcanic activity; extremely susceptible to hurricanes
www.exxun.com/ElSalvador/b_mp.html
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Roman Catholic 83%, other 17% note: there is extensive activity by Protestant groups throughout the country; by the end of 1992, there were an estimated 1 million Protestant evangelicals in El Salvador
www.exxun.com/ElSalvador/c_pp.html
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... flag; the coat of arms contains a white ram (sheep raising was once the major economic activity) above the sailing ship Desire (whose crew discovered the islands) with a scroll at the ...
www.exxun.com/FalklandIslands_IslasMalvinas/d_gv.html
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... was formerly based on agriculture, mainly sheep farming, but today fishing contributes the bulk of economic activity. In 1987, the government began selling fishing licenses to foreign trawlers operating within the Falkland ...
www.exxun.com/FalklandIslands_IslasMalvinas/e_ec.html
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... the EU's decision to cut sugar subsidies. Sugar processing makes up one-third of industrial activity but is not efficient. Fiji's tourism industry was damaged by the December 2006 coup ...
www.exxun.com/Fiji/e_ec.html
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metropolitan France: flooding; avalanches; midwinter windstorms; drought; forest fires in south near the Mediterranean overseas departments: hurricanes (cyclones), flooding, volcanic activity (Guadeloupe, Martinique, Reunion)
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Economic activity is limited to servicing meteorological and geophysical research stations, military bases, and French and other fishing fleets. The fish catches landed on Iles Kerguelen by foreign ships are exported to ...
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... J. J. JAMMEH led a military coup in 1994 that overthrew the president and banned political activity. A new constitution and presidential elections in 1996, followed by parliamentary balloting in 1997, completed ...
www.exxun.com/Gambia/a_fg.html
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... the processing of peanuts, fish, and hides. Reexport trade normally constitutes a major segment of economic activity, but a 1999 government-imposed preshipment inspection plan, and instability of the Gambian dalasi (currency ...
www.exxun.com/Gambia/e_ec.html
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Caribbean transshipment point for cocaine en route to the US and Europe; substantial bulk cash smuggling activity; Colombian narcotics traffickers favor Haiti for illicit financial transactions; pervasive corruption; significant consumer of cannabis
www.exxun.com/Haiti/i_ti.html
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The islands have no indigenous economic activity, but the Australian Government allows limited fishing in the surrounding waters.
www.exxun.com/HeardIslandandMcDonaldIslands/e_ec.html
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transshipment point for drugs and narcotics; illicit producer of cannabis, cultivated on small plots and used principally for local consumption; corruption is a major problem; some money-laundering activity
www.exxun.com/Honduras/i_ti.html
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earthquakes and volcanic activity
www.exxun.com/Iceland/b_mp.html
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... in rebuilding Aceh after the devastating December 2004 tsunami, and the province now shows more economic activity than before the disaster. Unfortunately, Indonesia suffered new disasters in 2006 and early 2007 including ...
www.exxun.com/Indonesia/e_ec.html
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... party until its dissolution in 1987; Iran now has a variety of groups engaged in political activity; some are oriented along political lines or based on an identity group; others are more ...
www.exxun.com/Iran/d_gv.html
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... which provides 85% of government revenues), and statist policies that create major distortions throughout. Most economic activity is controlled by the state. Private sector activity is typically small-scale workshops, farming, and ...
www.exxun.com/Iran/e_ec.html
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... of foreign exchange earnings. Although looting, insurgent attacks, and sabotage have undermined economy rebuilding efforts, economic activity is beginning to pick up in areas recently secured by the US military surge. Oil ...
www.exxun.com/Iraq/e_ec.html
