word | | Economy - overview |
| caused | Turkey | ... strong growth - averaging more than 6% annually until 2008. Global economic conditions and tighter fiscal policy caused GDP to contract in 2009, but Turkey's well-regulated financial markets and banking system ... |
| caused | Venezuela | ... 2006, 8% in 2007, and nearly 5% in 2008, before a sharp drop in oil prices caused an economic contraction in 2009-10. This spending, combined with recent minimum wage hikes and improved ... |
| caused | Vietnam | ... in new development assistance for 2011. However, the government's strong growth-oriented economic policies have caused it to struggle to control one of the region's highest inflation rates, which reached ... |
| causeway | Qatar | ... total and third largest in the world. Qatar's successful 2022 world cup bid will likely accelerate large-scale infrastructure projects such as Qatar's metro system and the Qatar-Bahrain causeway |
| causing | Burma | ... to be in extractive industries - especially oil and gas, mining, and timber - with the latter two causing significant environmental degradation. Other areas, such as manufacturing, tourism and services, struggle in the face ... |
| causing | Colombia | ... severe flooding in decades, with damages estimated to exceed $6 billion. The rains resumed in 2011, causing further damages to crops and infrastructure, as well as killing hundreds of Colombians and displacing ... |
| causing | Dominica | ... burden, which remains at about 80% of GDP. Hurricane Dean struck the island in August 2007 causing damages equivalent to 20% of GDP. In 2009, growth slowed as a result of the ... |
| causing | Jordan | ... s finances have also been strained by a series of natural gas pipline attacks in Egypt, causing Jordan to substitute more expensive heavy fuel oils to generate electricity. An influx of foreign ... |
| causing | Montserrat | ... on this small, open economy. A catastrophic eruption in June 1997 closed the airport and seaports, causing further economic and social dislocation. Two-thirds of the 12,000 inhabitants fled the island. Some ... |
| causing | Zimbabwe | ... Until early 2009, the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe routinely printed money to fund the budget deficit, causing hyperinflation. Dollarization in early 2009-which allowed currencies such as the Botswana pula, the South ... |
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