word | | Economy - overview |
| bringing | Georgia | ... Georgia has overcome the chronic energy shortages of the past by renovating hydropower plants and by bringing in newly available natural gas supplies from Azerbaijan, signing a Memorandum of Understanding and gas ... |
| bringing | Ukraine | ... reforms. Ukrainian Government officials eliminated most tax and customs privileges in a March 2005 budget law, bringing more economic activity out of Ukraine's large shadow economy, but more improvements are needed ... |
| bringing | United Kingdom | ... markets; these include part-nationalizing the banking system, cutting taxes, suspending public sector borrowing rules, and bringing forward public spending on capital projects. The Bank of England periodically coordinates interest rate moves ... |
| Britain | United Kingdom | ... proportion of GDP while industry continues to decline in importance. Since emerging from recession in 1992, Britain's economy enjoyed the longest period of expansion on record during which time growth outpaced ... |
| British | British Virgin Islands | ... provides a blanket of confidentiality with regulated statutory gateways for investigation of criminal offenses, made the British Virgin Islands even more attractive to international business. Livestock raising is the most important agricultural ... |
| British | Cyprus | ... sector is dominated by mainland Turkish banks, and because of its reliance on the hard-hit British and Turkish markets for tourism.GDP (purchasing power parity): $1.865 billion (2006 est.) GDP - real growth ... |
| British | Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas) | ... sale of postage stamps and coins. The islands are now self-financing except for defense. The British Geological Survey announced a 200-mile oil exploration zone around the islands in 1993, and ... |
| British | Gibraltar | ... from an extensive shipping trade, offshore banking, and its position as an international conference center. The British military presence has been sharply reduced and now contributes about 7% to the local economy ... |
| British | New Zealand | ... past 20 years the government has transformed New Zealand from an agrarian economy dependent on concessionary British market access to a more industrialized, free market economy that can compete globally. This dynamic ... |
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