The country's natural resources include petroleum, natural gas, fish, salt, limestone, stone, gravel and sand.

The harmonization of Chinese society and the natural environment is billed as one of the country's top national priorities.

This network would have enabled easy access by road to the neighbouring countries of Brazil, Venezuela and Surinam ; reduced the costs of utilising the country's timber and natural resources, thus making them more competitive in international markets ; diversified agricultural development by making more easily available suitable areas in the hinterland, particularly in the Intermediate and Rupununi savannahs ; relieved the over-crowded coastland of a significant proportion of its population, thus improving the quality of life of the inhabitants of both the coastal and interior areas ; and made more feasible the equitable distribution of economic activity, not only in the agricultural but also in the manufacturing and small-industries sector.

Two-fifths of all Haitians depend on the agriculture sector, mainly small-scale subsistence farming, and remain vulnerable to damage from frequent natural disasters, exacerbated by the country's widespread deforestation.

The country's best natural resource is fertile land, although soil quality varies greatly.

The Mediterranean coast and the Sahara Desert are the country's most prominent natural features.

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.

This growth was accompanied by foreign investment and European immigration, the development of an efficient railroad network and the exploitation of the country's natural resources.

This severely strains the country's underdeveloped economy and finite natural resources.

He also established a modern government structure and launched a major development programme to upgrade educational and health facilities, build a modern infrastructure, and develop the country's natural resources.

There is only one natural island in Slovenia: Bled Island in Lake Bled in the country's northwest.

Water and minerals are also important natural resources ; the region is home to many of the country's major dams, and mining is an important industry in the area.

In 2008, of natural gas pipelines and of petroleum pipelines spanned the country's territory.

He has also increased contacts with the West, which is eager for access to the country's natural gas riches-but fears were mounting that the government would revert to Niyazov's draconian style of rule.

But the country's environmental problems are predominantly the result of abuse and mismanagement of natural resources promoted by political and economic priorities.

Having one of the country's richest historical, natural, artistic, cultural, musical and culinary heritages, it is also one of the most visited regions of Italy, with about 60 million tourists every year ( 2007 ).

In Europa Universalis III by Paradox Interactive, Lord / Lady Protector is applied to a country's head of state under the Republican Dictatorship form of government, the first natural occurrence being Oliver Cromwell's formation of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland and Ireland.

In 2001, it expects to begin the commercialization of the country's estimated 640 km³ ( 23 trillion cubic feet ) of natural gas reserves through the construction of a gas pipeline from Papua New Guinea to Queensland, Australia. That project was shelved.

The country's main endowments include its vast human resource base, rich agricultural land, relatively abundant water, and substantial reserves of natural gas, with the blessing of possessing the worlds only natural sea ports in Mongla and Chittagong, in addition to being the only central port linking two large burgeoning economic hub groups SAARC and ASEAN.

Inefficiency in the public sector has been rising however at a gradual pace ; external resistance to developing the country's richest natural resources is mounting ; and power sectors including infrastructure have all contributed to slowing economic growth.

Adding to this is the fact that Bolivian President Evo Morales is known not to be friendly to European and American businesses, as he has already nationalized the country's oil and natural gas reserves.

To mine for it would involve disturbing the country's salt flats ( called Salar de Uyuni ), an important natural feature which boosts tourism in the region.

Third, we can offer technical help in the formulation of programs for development which are adapted to the country's objectives and resources.

This limits the resources available for investments in the country's deteriorated public infrastructure, investments in many cases that would result in higher quality infrastructure if they were better planned.

Although the PRC needs economic growth to spur its development, the government has begun to worry that rapid economic growth has negatively impacted the country's resources and environment.

In 1952 it created the Helmand Valley Authority to manage the economic development of the Helmand and Arghandab valleys through irrigation and land development, a scheme which remains one of the country's most important capital resources.

Responding to Guatemala's changed political and economic policy environment, the international community has mobilized substantial resources to support the country's economic and social development objectives.

The Iberian Union with Portugal in 1580 not only unified the peninsula, but added that country's worldwide resources to the Spanish crown.

The country's once abundant forest resources have also been dramatically reduced, and Honduras has not derived economically significant income from mineral resources since the 19th century.

In 1951, the Albanian government launched its first five-year plan, which emphasized exploiting the country's oil, chromite, copper, nickel, asphalt, and coal resources ; expanding electricity production and the power grid ; increasing agricultural output ; and improving transportation.

Panicked Portuguese left the country via plane, road and sea and had to leave behind all their assets, returning to Portugal where they became destitute and fell under the ridicule of the European Portuguese who saw their rehabilitation as a burden on the country's meagre resources.

As relations with the PRC and the Soviet Union loosened towards the end of the Cold War, North Korea developed an ideology, Juche, based upon a high degree of economic independence and the mobilization of all the resources of the nation to defend against foreign powers seen as a threat to the country's sovereignty.

Natural resources can add substantial's to a country's wealth, however a sudden inflow of money caused by a resource boom can create social problems including inflation harming other industries (" Dutch disease ") and corruption, leading to inequality and underdevelopment, this is known as the " resource curse ".

To protect the country's biological resources, the government has taken a first step of preparing a Biodiversity Action Plan to address conservation of threatened species.

In the past, the large proportion of children relative to the total population put great strains on the country's economy, particularly because substantial resources were invested in education facilities.

In his inauguration address in front of thousands of cheering supporters at the national stadium in Freetown, president Koroma promise to fight corruption and against the mismanagement of the country's resources.

The country's rate of economic growth cannot support rapid population growth or the strain which HIV / AIDS-related issues ( i. e., rising medical costs, street children, and decline in worker productivity ) places on government resources.

Yet your list of things left undone did not include repeal of the Connally amendment to this country's domestic jurisdiction reservation to its Adherence to the Statute of the International Court of Justice.

The trade balance is identical to the difference between a country's output and its domestic demand ( the difference between what goods a country produces and how many goods it buys from abroad ; this does not include money re-spent on foreign stock, nor does it factor in the concept of importing goods to produce for the domestic market ).

Other racial groups include small numbers of Afro-Guatemalans and Garifuna of mixed African and indigenous Caribbean origins who live in the country's Eastern end.

For example, an article about a country might include a chart or a paragraph describing that country's agricultural exports from a different article about agriculture.

The Lebanese Armed Forces ' primary missions include defending Lebanon and its citizens against external aggression, maintaining internal stability and security, confronting threats against the country's vital interests, engaging in social development activities and undertaking relief operations in coordination with public and humanitarian institutions.

The country's 17. 1 million square kilometers include one-eighth of the Earth's inhabited land area.

Penn's educational innovations include: the nation's first medical school in 1765 ; the first university teaching hospital in 1874 ; the Wharton School, the world's first collegiate school of business, in 1881 ; the first American student union building, Houston Hall, in 1896 ; the country's second school of veterinary medicine ; and the home of ENIAC, the world's first electronic, large-scale, general-purpose digital computer in 1946.

Other topics include modifying the country's boundaries ( 1871, 1949 ), transfer payments ( 1907 ), temporary changes due to two world wars ( 1916, 1943 ), federal-provincial powers ( 1930, 1964 ), power over changes in the constitution ( No. 2 ), the creation of new social programs ( 1951, 1964 ), and mandatory retirement ages in the Canadian government ( 1960, 1965 )

Other projects that Olmsted has been involved in include the country's first and oldest coordinated system of public parks and parkways in Buffalo, New York ; the country's oldest state park, the Niagara Reservation in Niagara Falls, New York ; one of the first planned communities in the United States, Riverside, Illinois ; Mount Royal Park in Montreal, Quebec ; the Emerald Necklace in Boston, Massachusetts ; the Emerald Necklace of parks in Rochester, New York ; Belle Isle Park, in the Detroit River for Detroit, Michigan ; Presque Isle Park in Marquette, Michigan ; the Grand Necklace of Parks in Milwaukee, Wisconsin ; Cherokee Park and entire parks and parkway system in Louisville, Kentucky ; the Forest Park in Springfield, Massachusetts, featuring America's first public " wading pool "; the George Washington Vanderbilt II Biltmore Estate in Asheville, North Carolina ; the master plans for the University of California, Berkeley and Stanford University near Palo Alto, California ; and Montebello Park in St. Catharines, Ontario.

The department's responsibilities include search and rescue, law enforcement within the country's Exclusive economic zone, conducting anti-smuggling and anti-immigration operations, suppression of terrorist activities in territorial waters of Sri Lanka.

Among the country's significant teams include Chivas de Guadalajara, Club América, Cruz Azul, and Pumas de la UNAM.

The shortcomings of the Kibaki presidency include the president's not so stellar performance in the areas of political reform ; constitutional reform ; containment of Corruption in Kenya ; addressing the fundamental problem of the country's wealth, income and development inequalities ; eliminating tribalism, and fostering national unity and cohesion ; reduction of youth unemployment and crime ; and facilitating generational change-as elaborated below.

The benchmarks include a televised speech from Hussein declaring the country's intentions to disarm, and accounting for Iraq's chemical weapons stockpiles and unmanned drones.

They are the main part of Republic of Kiribati (" Kiribati " is the Gilbertese rendition of " Gilberts " ) and include Tarawa, the site of the country's capital and residence of almost half of the population.

The products one may expect to see on board their goods trains include iron, steel and coal, fuelling much of the country's industry.

Agricultural products include rice, maize, cassava, cashews, sugarcane, coconuts, citrus, cotton, and tea ; the country's largest tea estates are at Gurúè.

Additional sources of nutrients include untreated sewage discharge and fertilizers and other industrial waste flowing into the lake through rivers ( 97 percent of the country's raw sewage is discharged without treatment into the environment ).

Along with the courts and procuratorates, the country's judicial and public security agencies include the Ministry of Public Security and the Ministry of State Security, with their descending hierarchy of departments, bureaus, subbureaus, and stations.

The country's symphony orchestras include the Venezuela Symphony Orchestra, Mérida State Symphony Orchestra, and the Orquesta Sinfónica Simón Bolívar.

In much of Asia, the term does not include the country's native cuisines.

Factors contributing to a currency's hard status might include the long-term stability of its purchasing power, the associated country's political and fiscal condition and outlook, and the policy posture of the issuing central bank.