word | | Economy - overview |
| protests | Algeria | ... little to reduce high youth unemployment rates or to address housing shortages. A wave of economic protests in February and March 2011 prompted the Algerian Government to offer more than $23 billion ... |
| protests | Bolivia | ... rates in the 1990s. The period 2003-05 was characterized by political instability, racial tensions, and violent protests against plans - subsequently abandoned - to export Bolivia's newly discovered natural gas reserves to large ... |
| protests | Israel | ... of the worlds's largest offshore natural gas finds this past decade. In mid-2011, public protests arose around income inequality and rising housing and commodity prices. The government formed committees to ... |
| protests | Peru | ... Mexico also were signed in 2011. Although Peru has continued to attract foreign investment, political disputes and protests against foreign investors may impede development of some projects related to natural resource extraction |
| protests | Senegal | ... expand power capacity by 2012 and to promote renewable energy, but until Senegal has more capacity, more protests are likely. Foreign investment in Senegal is retarded by Senegal's unfriendly business environment |
| protests | Sudan | ... exchange continue. Sudan also faces rising inflation, which has led to a number of small scale protests in Khartoum in recent months. Ongoing conflicts in Southern Kordofan, Darfur, and the Blue Nile ... |
| protests | Uganda | ... on line in the next few years. Rising food and fuel prices in 2011 led to protests. Instability in southern Sudan is a risk for the Ugandan economy in 2012 because Uganda ... |
| protracted | Japan | ... effects of inefficient investment and an asset price bubble in the late 1980s that required a protracted period of time for firms to reduce excess debt, capital, and labor. Measured on a ... |
| Proved | Qatar | ... the highest per-capita income country - ahead of Liechtenstein - and the country with the lowest unemployment. Proved oil reserves in excess of 25 billion barrels should enable continued output at current levels ... |
| proven | Canada | ... is rapidly becoming an even larger economic driver with Alberta's oil sands significantly boosting Canada's proven oil reserves, ranking the country third in the world behing Saudia Arabia and Venezuela |
| proven | Saudi Arabia | ... strong government controls over major economic activities. It possesses about one-fifth of the world's proven petroleum reserves, ranks as the largest exporter of petroleum, and plays a leading role in ... |
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