word | | Economy - overview |
| overflights | Antarctica | ... Treaty by the International Association of Antarctica Tour Operators (IAATO); this does not include passengers on overflights). Nearly all of them were passengers on commercial (nongovernmental) ships and several yachts that make ... |
| overflights | Southern Ocean | ... 2005-2006 (estimates provided to the Antarctic Treaty by the International Association of Antarctica Tour Operators (IAATO), and does not include passengers on overflights and those flying directly in and out of Antarctica |
| Overgrazing | Swaziland | ... the number and size of small and medium enterprises and attract foreign direct investment is acute. Overgrazing, soil depletion, drought, and sometimes floods persist as problems for the future. More than one ... |
| overhaul | Morocco | ... by the King in 2005, has improved social welfare through a successful rural electrification program, an overhaul of the tourism and agriculture sectors, and the gradual replacement of urban slums with decent ... |
| overhauling | Italy | ... and service sectors. Italy has moved slowly on implementing needed structural reforms, such as reducing graft, overhauling costly entitlement programs, and increasing employment opportunities for young workers, particularly women. These conditions will ... |
| overheating | Australia | ... high export prices for raw materials and agricultural products fueled the economy to the point of overheating in recent years, particularly in mining states. Drought, robust import demand, and a strong currency ... |
| overnight | Mongolia | ... direct investment and government revenues. Soviet assistance, at its height one-third of GDP, disappeared almost overnight in 1990 and 1991 at the time of the dismantlement of the USSR. The following ... |
| overpopulated | Bangladesh | ... poor infrastructure, corruption, insufficient power supplies, and slow implementation of economic reforms. Bangladesh remains a poor, overpopulated, and inefficiently-governed nation. Although more than half of GDP is generated through the service ... |
| overriding | Korea, North | ... in March 2009 rejected additional US aid shipments. Firm political control remains the Communist government's overriding concern, which will likely inhibit the loosening of economic regulations. In December 2009, North Korea ... |
| overruns | Congo, Democratic Republic of the | ... Fund curtailed their program for the DRC at the end of March 2006 because of fiscal overruns. Much economic activity still occurs in the informal sector, and is not reflected in GDP ... |
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