word | | Economy - overview |
| conflicts | Sudan | ... 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 states, lack of basic infrastructure in large ... |
| conform | Denmark | ... on foreign trade. Denmark is a member of the European Union (EU); Danish legislation and regulations conform to EU standards on almost all issues. Danes enjoy among the highest standards of living ... |
| conform | Switzerland | ... the US, and international institutions to reform its banking secrecy laws. Consequently, the government agreed to conform to OECD regulations on administrative assistance in tax matters, including tax evasion. The government has ... |
| conformity | Switzerland | ... of the world's most competitive economies. The Swiss have brought their economic practices largely into conformity with the EU's, to enhance their international competitiveness, but some trade protectionism remains, particularly ... |
| confronting | Cameroon | ... endowed primary commodity economies in sub-Saharan Africa. Still, it faces many of the serious problems confronting other underdeveloped countries, such as stagnant per capita income, a relatively inequitable distribution of income ... |
| Congfess | Colombia | ... boosting investment at home. The U.S.-Colombia Free Trade Agreement (FTA) was ratified by the US Congfess in October 2011 and is expected to be implemented in mid-2012. Columbia has signed ... |
| Congo | Congo, Democratic Republic of the | The economy of the Democratic Republic of the Congo - a nation endowed with vast potential wealth - is slowly recovering from decades of decline. Systemic corruption since independence in 1960 and conflict that ... |
| Congo | Congo, Republic of the | ... In March 2006, the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) approved Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) treatment for Congo, receiving $1.9 billion in debt relief under the program in 2010 |
| Congo | Zimbabwe | ... insufficient formal employment. Zimbabwe's 1998-2002 involvement in the war in the Democratic Republic of the Congo drained hundreds of millions of dollars from the economy. The government's subsequent land reform ... |
| Congress | Ecuador | ... significantly, the banking system collapsed, and Ecuador defaulted on its external debt. In March 2000, the Congress approved a series of structural reforms that also provided for the adoption of the US ... |
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