began
... financial and telecommunications sectors. The country qualified for the European Monetary Union (EMU) in 1998 and began circulating the euro on 1 January 2002 along with 11 other EU member economies. Economic ...
www.exxun.com/Portugal/e_ec.html
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Romania, which joined the European Union on 1 January 2007, began the transition from Communism in 1989 with a largely obsolete industrial base and a pattern of output unsuited to the country ...
www.exxun.com/Romania/e_ec.html
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... The children of these exiles later formed a rebel group, the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF), and began a civil war in 1990. The war, along with several political and economic upheavals, exacerbated ...
www.exxun.com/Rwanda/a_fg.html
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... bold and ambitious economic reform program with the support of the international donor community. This reform began with a 50% devaluation of Senegal's currency, the CFA franc, which was linked at ...
www.exxun.com/Senegal/e_ec.html
began
... unemployment remains high and outdated infrastructure has constrained growth. At the end of 2007, South Africa began to experience an electricity crisis because state power supplier Eskom suffered supply problems with aged ...
www.exxun.com/SouthAfrica/e_ec.html
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... Iberian peninsula was characterized by a variety of independent kingdoms prior to the Muslim occupation that began in the early 8th century A.D. and lasted nearly seven centuries; the small Christian redoubts ...
www.exxun.com/Spain/d_gv.html
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... already enormous civil service. The government has halted privatizations. Although suffering a brutal civil war that began in 1983, Sri Lanka saw GDP growth average 4.5% in the last 10 years with ...
www.exxun.com/SriLanka/e_ec.html
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... with the IMF to implement macroeconomic reforms, including a managed float of the exchange rate. Sudan began exporting crude oil in the last quarter of 1999. Agricultural production remains important, because it ...
www.exxun.com/Sudan/e_ec.html
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The Portuguese began to trade with the island of Timor in the early 16th century and colonized it in mid-century. Skirmishing with the Dutch in the region eventually resulted in an ...
www.exxun.com/EastTimor/a_fg.html
began
... of FDI currently stands at about $85 billion. Privatization sales are currently approaching $21 billion. Oil began to flow through the Baku-Tblisi-Ceyhan pipeline in May 2006, marking a major milestone ...
www.exxun.com/Turkey/e_ec.html
began
... companies mined for guano deposits until about 1890. In 1935, a short-lived attempt at colonization began on this island, similar to the effort on nearby Baker Island, but was disrupted by ...
www.exxun.com/UnitedStatesPacificIsland/a_fg.html
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tropical cyclones or typhoons (January to April); volcanic eruption on Aoba (Ambae) island began 27 November 2005, volcanism also causes minor earthquakes; tsunamis
www.exxun.com/Vanuatu/b_mp.html
began
The conquest of Vietnam by France began in 1858 and was completed by 1884. It became part of French Indochina in 1887. Vietnam declared independence after World War II, but France continued ...
www.exxun.com/Vietnam/a_fg.html
began
... an effort to stem high inflation which took off in 2007, early in 2008 Vietnamese authorities began to raise benchmark interest rates and reserve requirements. Hanoi is targeting an economic growth rate ...
www.exxun.com/Vietnam/e_ec.html
began
... the Palestinian Authority (PA) - has experienced a general decline in economic conditions since the second intifada began in September 2000. The downturn has been largely a result of Israeli closure policies - the ...
www.exxun.com/WestBank/e_ec.html
began
... 4,990 metric tons was only a 9% decrease over 2004's highest total recorded since estimates began in mid-1980s; Afghanistan is world's primary opium producer, accounting for 90% of the ...
www.exxun.com/World/i_ti.html
began
... on declining oil resources, but the country is trying to diversify its earnings. In 2006 Yemen began an economic reform program designed to bolster non-oil sectors of the economy and foreign ...
www.exxun.com/Yemen/e_ec.html
began
... and has dominated the country's political system since independence. His chaotic land redistribution campaign, which began in 2000, caused an exodus of white farmers, crippled the economy, and ushered in widespread ...
www.exxun.com/Zimbabwe/a_fg.html
Begawan
... Guan Plaza, Jalan Sultan, Bandar Seri Begawan, BS8811 mailing address: PSC 470 (BSB), FPO AP 96507; P.O. Box 2991, Bandar Seri Begawan BS8675, Negara Brunei Darussalam telephone: [673] 222-0384 FAX: [673] 222-5293
www.exxun.com/Brunei/d_gv.html
beggars
... en route to Persian Gulf states where they are ultimately forced to work as camel jockeys, beggars, or laborers; Afghan women and girls are trafficked to the country for forced marriages and ...
www.exxun.com/Iran/i_ti.html
beggars
... with the help of smugglers, but may be forced into prostitution or work as laborers and beggars to pay off their $800-$1,200 smuggling debt; laborers from Egypt, Sudan, and Ethiopia are ...
www.exxun.com/Libya/i_ti.html
begging
... European countries with the help of smugglers, where they are often forced into prostitution, labor, and begging in order to pay off their smuggling debt; some Algerian children are reportedly trafficked within ...
www.exxun.com/Algeria/i_ti.html
