substantial
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
Substantial
... to fluctuations in world prices for its main exports: fish and fish products, aluminum, and ferrosilicon. Substantial foreign investment in the aluminum and hydropower sectors has boosted economic growth which, nevertheless, has ...
www.exxun.com/Iceland/e_ec.html
substantial
despite substantial interdiction efforts, Iran remains a key transshipment point for Southwest Asian heroin to Europe; highest percentage of the population in the world using opiates; lacks anti-money-laundering laws
www.exxun.com/Iran/i_ti.html
substantial
Israel has a technologically advanced market economy with substantial, though diminishing, government participation. It depends on imports of crude oil, grains, raw materials, and military equipment. Despite limited natural resources, Israel has ...
www.exxun.com/Israel/e_ec.html
substantial
... illicit cultivation and consumption of cannabis; government has an active manual cannabis eradication program; corruption is a major concern; substantial money-laundering activity; Colombian narcotics traffickers favor Jamaica for illicit financial transactions
www.exxun.com/Jamaica/i_ti.html
substantial
... groups called keiretsu. A second basic feature has been the guarantee of lifetime employment for a substantial portion of the urban labor force. Both features have now eroded. Japan's industrial sector ...
www.exxun.com/Japan/e_ec.html
substantial
... IMF program in 2002, Amman has continued to follow IMF guidelines, practicing careful monetary policy, making substantial headway with privatization, and opening the trade regime. Jordan's exports have significantly increased under ...
www.exxun.com/Jordan/e_ec.html
substantial
... 1995-97, the pace of the government program of economic reform and privatization quickened, resulting in a substantial shifting of assets into the private sector. Kazakhstan enjoyed double-digit growth in 2000-01 - 8 ...
www.exxun.com/Kazakhstan/e_ec.html
substantial
... 2007, partly due to higher gold prices internationally. The government made steady strides in controlling its substantial fiscal deficit, nearly closing the gap between revenues and expenditures in 2006, before boosting expenditures ...
www.exxun.com/Kyrgyzstan/e_ec.html
Substantial
... about 95% of export earnings, about one-quarter of GDP, and 60% of public sector wages. Substantial revenues from the energy sector coupled with a small population give Libya one of the ...
www.exxun.com/Libya/e_ec.html
substantial
... started his own party, the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) in 2005. As president, MUTHARIKA has overseen substantial economic improvement but because of political deadlock in the legislature, his minority party has been ...
www.exxun.com/Malawi/a_fg.html
substantial
... short-term growth as tobacco accounts for more than half of exports. The economy depends on substantial inflows of economic assistance from the IMF, the World Bank, and individual donor nations. In ...
www.exxun.com/Malawi/e_ec.html
substantial
... heavily influenced by its neighbors. For example, Mongolia purchases 95% of its petroleum products and a substantial amount of electric power from Russia, leaving it vulnerable to price increases. Trade with China ...
www.exxun.com/Mongolia/e_ec.html
substantial
... and processing and garment manufacturing that could further close the import/export gap. Mozambique's once substantial foreign debt has been reduced through forgiveness and rescheduling under the IMF's Heavily Indebted ...
www.exxun.com/Mozambique/e_ec.html
substantial
... phosphates are serious long-term problems. In anticipation of the exhaustion of Nauru's phosphate deposits, substantial amounts of phosphate income were invested in trust funds to help cushion the transition and ...
www.exxun.com/Nauru/e_ec.html
substantial
based on French civil law; the 1988 Matignon Accords grant substantial autonomy to the islands
www.exxun.com/NewCaledonia/d_gv.html
substantial
... is suitable for cultivation, and food accounts for about 20% of imports. In addition to nickel, substantial financial support from France - equal to more than 15% of GDP - and tourism are keys ...
www.exxun.com/NewCaledonia/e_ec.html
substantial
... The population of the island continues to drop (from a peak of 5,200 in 1966 to an estimated 1,444 in 2008), with substantial emigration to New Zealand, 2,400 km to the southwest
www.exxun.com/Niue/a_fg.html
substantial
7.5% plus substantial underemployment (2007 est.)
www.exxun.com/Pakistan/e_ec.html
substantial
subtropical to temperate; substantial rainfall in the eastern portions, becoming semiarid in the far west
www.exxun.com/Paraguay/b_mp.html
substantial
... problem, as is disposal of hazardous wastes; pollution levels should continue to decrease as industrial establishments bring their facilities up to EU code, but at substantial cost to business and the government
www.exxun.com/Poland/b_mp.html
