In independent Armenia, environmental issues divide society ( and scientists ) sharply into those who fear " environmental time bombs " and those who view resumption of pollution-prone industrial operations as the only means of improving the country's economy.

Financial services constitute the second-most important sector of the Bahamian economy, accounting for up to 17 % of GDP, due to the country's status as an offshore financial center.

United Nations sanctions against Yugoslavia and Iraq ( 1990 – 2003 ), two of the country's most significant trading partners, took a heavy toll on the Bulgarian economy.

The economy of the Cayman Islands, a British overseas territory located in the western Caribbean Sea, is mainly fueled by the tourism sector and by the financial services sector, together representing 70-80 percent of the country's gross domestic product ( GDP ).

, two years after its implementation began, the security situation of inside Colombia has shown some measure of an improvement and the economy, while still fragile, has also shown some positive signs according to observers, but relatively little has yet to have been accomplished in structurally solving most of the country's other grave problems, possibly in part due to legislative and political conflicts between the administration and the Colombian Congress ( including those over the controversial project to eventually re-elect Uribe ), and a relative lack of freely allocated funds and credits.

They also attacked and intimidated civilians deemed to be contributors to the country's economy such as telephone workers, coffee pickers, teachers, and technicians as well as civilians who participated or cooperated in government or community programs such as distribution of subsidized food products, rural cooperatives, and education.

Although perestroika was considered bold in the context of Soviet history, Gorbachev's attempts at economic reform were not radical enough to restart the country's chronically sluggish economy in the late 1980s.

The country's standing as the largest Caribbean economy, second-largest country in terms of population and land mass, with large bilateral trade with the United States, and its proximity to the United States and other smaller Caribbean nations make the Dominican Republic an important partner in hemispheric affairs.

The economy of Grenada was brought to a near standstill in September 2004 by Hurricane Ivan, which damaged or destroyed 90 percent of the country's buildings, including some tourist facilities.

The current program works to advance U. S. foreign policy objectives by focusing on Guatemala's potential as Central America's largest economy and trading partner of the United States, but also recognizes the country's lagging social indicators and high rate of poverty.

Intermittent fighting between Senegalese-backed government troops and a military junta destroyed much of the country's infrastructure and caused widespread damage to the economy in 1998 ; the civil war led to a 28 % drop in GDP that year, with partial recovery in 1999.

While " glasnost " is associated with freedom of speech, the main goal of this policy was to make the country's management transparent and open to debate, thus circumventing the narrow circle of apparatchiks who previously exercised complete control of the economy.

During his chancellorship, the West Germany economy grew quickly, and West Germany established friendly relations with France, participated in the emerging European Union, established the country's armed forces ( the Bundeswehr ), and became a pillar of NATO as well as firm ally of the United States.

Flores inaugurated International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) programs of reform and modernization of the Honduran Government and economy, with emphasis on maintaining the country's fiscal health and improving international competitiveness.

During the decades of the 1960s and 1970s, the country's economy, spurred mostly by erratically fluctuating traditional agricultural commodities, nevertheless averaged real annual growth of between 4 and 5 percent.

Corruption and Trikoupis ' increased spending to create necessary infrastructure like the Corinth Canal overtaxed the weak Greek economy, forcing the declaration of public insolvency in 1893 and to accept the imposition of an International Financial Control authority to pay off the country's debtors.

Since the 2008 onset of the Irish economic and banking crisis, however, the country's economy has suffered, and since then Ireland has experienced net emigration once again.

Despite these important achievements, the country's economy today suffers from many and relevant problems.

The economy of Japan is the third largest national economy in the world after the United States and the People's Republic of China and is the world's second largest developed economy According to the International Monetary Fund, the country's per capita GDP ( PPP ) was at $ 34, 739 or the 25th highest in 2011.

The riots, however, destroyed nearly 80 % of commercial infrastructure in Maseru and two other major towns in the country, having a disastrous effect on the country's economy.

About 32 % of the country's revenues are invested in research and development, one of the driving forces of the success of Liechtenstein's economy.

Moreover, little attempt was made to develop the country's economy.

The annual Mexico Investment Summit takes place in Mexico City covering the development and investment opportunities and challenges across Mexican private equity, venture capital, infrastructure, real estate, agriculture, tourism, energy and natural resources evolving in the country's economy.

Tourism in Haiti has suffered from the country's political upheaval.

Greece suffered terrible privations during World War II, as the Germans appropriated most of the country's agricultural production and prevented its fishing fleets from operating.

When World War I started, Liberia declared war on Germany and expelled its resident German merchants, who constituted the country's largest investors and trading partners – Liberia suffered economically as a result. http :// www. globalsecurity. org / military / ops / grebo2. htm

Soviet losses on the front were heavy, and the country's international reputation suffered.

The Second Five-Year Plan was the start of the deterioration in the standard of living because the focus of " planners ' preferences " replaced consumer preferences in the country's economy, with the move to focus on military goods and heavy industry, the economy suffered.

The series was plagued by low ratings and negative reviews from critics throughout its run ; the program also suffered from airing in undesirable timeslots in certain markets, including in the country's largest media market, New York City, where WCBS-TV and WNBC ( the latter of which acquired the series from WCBS five months into the program's run ) both placed the program in pre-dawn early morning slots.

Most of the country's significant crop land, including Artibonite Valley, suffered total losses.

The coffee and cocoa plantations also suffered from the hurricane, further damaging the country's food supply.

In Nedvěd and his country's first ever World Cup match since the break-up of Czechoslovakia the Czechs impressively won 3 – 0 in their opening game against the United States, but suffered injuries to key players and lost their next two group matches against Ghana and eventual winners Italy, finishing third in their group.

Once a huge movement inside the large Argentinian Jewish Community, Hashomer Hatzair Argentina suffered from decay common to all Zionist youth movements in Argentina during the last decades, as well as several military dictatorships in the country's history that directly or indirectly led to the closure of several of its kenim.

The touring Zimbabwe side had suffered due to player disputes which in 2004 had led to the country's temporary suspension from Test cricket.

Founded on this perception is the republican assertion that national pride is diminished by the monarchy, its presence negating the country's full independence achieved in 1982, and makes Canada appear colonial and subservient to the United Kingdom, under which they feel Canadians suffered " military, economic, and cultural subjugation.

Colonial Cape forces sent to put down the rebellion suffered heavy casualties, as the Basotho had obtained serviceable firearms from the Orange Free State and enjoyed a natural defensive advantage in their country's mountainous terrain.

Greece suffered more than 400, 000 casualties during the occupation, and the country's Jewish community was almost completely exterminated in the Holocaust.

Although the state experienced heavy manufacturing losses at the turn of the century and suffered from the Great Recession, it was rebounding by the second decade in being the country's 6th-fastest growing economy through the first half of 2010.

He is actually an ex-consul, recently resigned due to diplomatic strains between the UK and Mexico in the aftermath of President Lázaro Cárdenas's 1938 nationalization of the country's oil reserves.

In the aftermath of the Iranian revolution of 1979 and the subsequent rise to power of the Ayatollah Khomeini, Nafisi soon became restless with the stringent rules imposed upon women by her country's new rulers.

Ho Chi Minh, who also served as the country's President, was appointed Vietnam's first prime minister in 1946 by the National Assembly, after having served months as Acting Chairman of the Provisional Government and foreign minister in the aftermath of the 1945 August Revolution.

In 2002, he traveled to Angola, assisting in fundraising and addressing United Nations groups on that country's needs in the immediate aftermath of decades of civil war.

Some of his ideas would help shape Indian governmental policy in the aftermath of the country's independence from Britain.

He later supported the Commonwealth's decision to suspend Zimbabwe for one year in the aftermath of that country's disputed 2002 presidential election.

In the aftermath of the Velvet Revolution, newly-elected President Vaclav Havel announced that " Socialist " would be dropped from the country's official name.

He also served as the Energy Minister in Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani's cabinet and made massive efforts for reconstruction and rehabilitation of the country's water and electricity industry in the aftermath of the 1980-1988 Iran-Iraq War and the damages caused to the industry in the Iraqi attacks.