Remittances from Moldovans abroad account for almost 38 % of Moldova's GDP, the second-highest percentage in the world.

Other successes include the privatization of nearly all of Moldova's agricultural land from state to private ownership, as a result of an American assistance program, " Pamînt " (" land "), completed in 2000.

Its course marks part of the border of Ukraine and Moldova, after which it flows through Moldova for, separating the bulk of Moldova's territory from Transnistria.

Volunteers from Romania fought on Moldova's side.

Moldova's relations with its western neighbour, Romania, have been stressed since 1994.

A transition to a professional force of 12, 000 to 15, 000 volunteers was planned at first, but when fighting erupted in 1991 between supporters of the central government in Chişinău and supporters of separatist regions, males between eighteen and forty years of age were mobilized, and the size of Moldova's military was temporarily expanded to meet the demands of the Transnistrian conflict.

The Dniester forms a small part of Moldova's border with Ukraine in the northeast and southeast, but it mainly flows through the eastern part of the country, separating Bessarabia and Transnistria.

The Prut River forms Moldova's entire western boundary with Romania.

Moldova's proximity to the Black Sea gives it a mild and sunny climate.

The Russian ruble devaluation of 1998 had a deleterious effect on Moldova's economy, but economic growth has been steady since 2000.

According to the World Bank, Moldova's weighted average tariff rate in 2001 ( the most recent year for which World Bank data are available ) was 2. 8 percent.

" Based on the revised trade factor methodology, Moldova's trade policy score is unchanged.

Moldova's top income tax rate is 22 percent.

Between 1995 and 2004, Moldova's weighted average annual rate of inflation was 11. 99 percent.

" Moldova's stock exchange is very small, listing fewer than 25 companies in 2002.

Therefore, Moldova's informal market score is 4 in 2005.

After the break of the Soviet Union Moldova's telecommunications facilities were in a very poor condition.

Highways link Moldova's main cities and provide the chief means of transportation within the country, but roads are in poor repair, and gasoline shortages make interurban motor transportation difficult.

The main causes for these declines are the high cost of transportation, a lack of fuels, and the poor state of Moldova's transportation infrastructure: approximately 20 percent of Moldova's roads are considered in a critical technical state.

The international diplomatic situation with respect to the question of Transnistria determines and is determined by Moldova's relations with Russia.

Moldova and Ukraine have established joint customs posts to monitor transit through Moldova's break-away Transnistria Region which remains under OSCE supervision.

Galați township remained Moldova's only port, not only for domestic trade but also for trade with Turkey and Poland.

Moldova's traditional folk culture is very rich.

The best-known global product is Bavaria Premium Pils lager.

* Edward Gelsthorpe, ( 1923 – 2009 ), marketing executive called " Cranapple Ed " for his best-known product launch.

The simulated crab meat product kanikama ( short for kani-kamaboko ), the best-known form of surimi in the West, is a type of kamaboko.

* Edward Gelsthorpe, ( 1923 – 2009 ), marketing executive known as " Cranapple Ed " for his best-known product launch

Synopsys ' first and best-known product is Design Compiler, a logic-synthesis tool.

IXI's best-known product was X. desktop, an X11-based graphical desktop for UNIX systems.

The Swiss Army knife is the best-known Victorinox product.

</ small > It contains the 16th-century ruins of Ingapirca, the best-known Inca settlement in Ecuador and a product of their conquest of the indigenous Cañari.

Probably the best-known product of her many photo sessions is one particular still in which she is seen completely nude from behind.

Up to 1945, the sausage industry in Rügenwalde was well established, and Teewurst was its best-known product.

Scissors with ergonomic orange plastic handles are the best-known product by Fiskars ; they have been manufactured since 1967.

The brewery's best-known product, available at a large number of pubs in the UK.

Its best-known product was the Exakta single-lens reflex camera.

In mathematics, the Moyal product, named after José Enrique Moyal, is perhaps the best-known example of a phase-space star product: an associative, non-commutative product, ★, on the functions on ℝ < sup > 2n </ sup >, equipped with its Poisson bracket ( with a generalization to symplectic manifolds below ).

The best-known product on the US government market is the STU-III family.

The brand's best-known product became the conditioning shampoo Pantene Pro-V ( Pantene Pro-Vitamin ).

By the turn of the century, games had become the main product, and output gradually expanded until the company become one of the best-known international manufacturers of games and children's activity kits, employing up to 600 people.

Some of the best-known evidence of the power of selective breeding comes from an experiment by Russian scientist, Dmitri K. Belyaev, in the 1950s.

For all these pursuits, it comes as no surprise that his best-known works are two voluminous books which attempt to map and systematize the development of the sciences, History of the Inductive Sciences ( 1837 ) and The Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences, Founded Upon Their History ( 1840 ).

The best-known example of a bronze shield comes from Plzeň in Bohemia and has a riveted handhold.

Probably his best-known song is " Meienzît " (" May Time ") in which Neidhart starts by describing a peaceful spring scenario but quickly comes to insulting his foes ( and several friends and allies who betrayed him ).