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... hobbles the economy. The devaluation of the CFA franc - its currency - by 50% in January 1994 sparked a one-time inflationary surge, to 35%; the rate dropped to 6% in 1996. The ...
www.exxun.com/Gabon/e_ec.html
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... more degraded than in the West Bank. The beginning of the second intifadah in September 2000 sparked an economic downturn, largely the result of Israeli closure policies; these policies, which were imposed ...
www.exxun.com/GazaStrip/e_ec.html
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... and bad governance prompted two massive strikes in 2006; a third nationwide strike in early 2007 sparked violent protests in many Guinean cities and prompted two weeks of martial law. To appease ...
www.exxun.com/Guinea/a_fg.html
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... heavily weighted toward gold export and a drop in output at the main Kumtor gold mine sparked a 0.5% decline in GDP in 2002 and a 0.6% decline in 2005. GDP grew ...
www.exxun.com/Kyrgyzstan/e_ec.html
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... the Caspian to market. In 2007, Turkish financial markets weathered significant domestic political turmoil, including turbulence sparked by controversy over the selection of former Foreign Minister Abdullah GUL as Turkey's 11th ...
www.exxun.com/Turkey/e_ec.html
sparse
arable land: 0% permanent crops: 0% other: 100% (mostly rock with sparse scrub oak, few trees, some commercial salt ponds) (2005)
www.exxun.com/Anguilla/b_mp.html
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... at port are subject to inspection in accordance with Article 7, Antarctic Treaty; offshore anchorage is sparse and intermittent; relevant legal instruments and authorization procedures adopted by the states parties to the ...
www.exxun.com/Antarctica/g_tr.html
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... The Northwest Passage (US and Canada) and Northern Sea Route (Norway and Russia) are two important seasonal waterways. A sparse network of air, ocean, river, and land routes circumscribes the Arctic Ocean
www.exxun.com/ArcticOcean/a_fg.html
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sparse network of air, ocean, river, and land routes; the Northwest Passage (North America) and Northern Sea Route (Eurasia) are important seasonal waterways
www.exxun.com/ArcticOcean/g_tr.html
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... persons; mobile-cellular usage is increasing but remains at a meager 2 per 100 persons domestic: sparse system of open-wire, radiotelephone communications, and low-capacity microwave radio relay international: country code ...
www.exxun.com/Burundi/f_cm.html
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general assessment: sparse system of microwave radio relay and HF radiotelephone communication stations; fixed-line connections only about 2 per 100 persons; mobile cellular usage about 2 per 100 persons domestic: HF ...
www.exxun.com/Comoros/f_cm.html
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dominates North Atlantic Ocean between North America and Europe; sparse population confined to small settlements along coast; close to one-quarter of the population lives in the capital, Nuuk; world's second ...
www.exxun.com/Greenland/b_mp.html
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desert; hot, dry; rainfall sparse and erratic
www.exxun.com/Namibia/b_mp.html
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arable land: 0% permanent crops: 0% other: 100% (largely covered by permanent ice and snow with some sparse vegetation consisting of grass, moss, and lichen) (2005)
www.exxun.com/SouthGeorgiaSouthSandwichIs/b_mp.html
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sparse water and lack of arable land
www.exxun.com/WesternSahara/b_mp.html
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general assessment: sparse and limited system domestic: NA international: country code - 212; tied into Morocco's system by microwave radio relay, tropospheric scatter, and satellite; satellite earth stations - 2 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean ...
www.exxun.com/WesternSahara/f_cm.html
sparsely
... the 2002 Differendum serves in lieu of the contiguous international boundary to control squatting in the sparsely inhabited rain forests of Belize's border region; Honduras claims Belizean-administered Sapodilla Cays in ...
www.exxun.com/Belize/i_ti.html
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the northern Cook Islands are seven low-lying, sparsely populated, coral atolls; the southern Cook Islands, where most of the population lives, consist of eight elevated, fertile, volcanic isles, including the largest ...
www.exxun.com/CookIslands/b_mp.html
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most of the inhabitants live along the sandy coastal region; apart from the capital area, the forested interior is sparsely populated
www.exxun.com/Cote_d_Ivoire/b_mp.html
sparsely
... the 2002 Differendum serves in lieu of the contiguous international boundary to control squatting in the sparsely inhabited rain forests of Belize's border region; Mexico must deal with thousands of impoverished ...
www.exxun.com/Guatemala/i_ti.html
sparsely
... complete independence in 1979 under the new name of Kiribati. The US relinquished all claims to the sparsely inhabited Phoenix and Line Island groups in a 1979 treaty of friendship with Kiribati
www.exxun.com/Kiribati/a_fg.html
sparsely
strategic location bordering China, South Korea, and Russia; mountainous interior is isolated and sparsely populated
www.exxun.com/Korea_North/b_mp.html
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consists of the main island of New Caledonia (one of the largest in the Pacific Ocean), the archipelago of Iles Loyaute, and numerous small, sparsely populated islands and atolls
www.exxun.com/NewCaledonia/b_mp.html
