Economically, Varna is among the best-performing and fastest-growing Bulgarian cities ; unemployment, at 2. 34 % ( 2007 ), is over 3 times lower than the nation's rate ; in 2007, median salary was the highest, on a par with Sofia and Burgas.

The Alliance exploited the nation's mass unemployment in the run-up to the election, running a " Working Together for Britain " campaign which it promised would see unemployment reduced by up to 1, 000, 000.

In the nation's major urban areas unemployment increased, expanding demand for social services, while tax bases declined.

They said that the reason for this was that the American working class was being pushed out of work forced to unemployment while the nation's corporations where gaining billions of dollars in profits.

: Our policies have also been influenced by the cavalier attitude of the present government with regard to how its spends the taxpayer's dollar, its contempt for the nation's ever increasing national debt and its inability to address the rising unemployment that is eroding the foundations of Canadian society and which is now impacting negatively on Canadians from all walks of life.

The rate of inflation in 1983, 52. 5 percent, was the highest ever recorded in the nation's history.

The nation's GDP stands at about $ 27 billion with an exchange rate of $ 15 billion, and the GDP per capita is about $ 900.

Because a nation's exchange rate has a big impact on its ' balance of trade ' and its ' balance of payments ' many economists favour freely floating exchange rates over the older, fixed ( or pegged ) rates of foreign currency exchange.

In the United States, Tax Freedom Day for 2010 is April 3, for a total average effective tax rate of 26. 9 percent of the nation's income.

In 1900, Tax Freedom Day arrived January 22, for an effective average total tax rate of 5. 9 percent of the nation's income.

As of 2005, Broward County led the nation's metropolitan areas in new AIDS diagnoses, with a reported rate 58. 4 new AIDS diagnoses per 100, 000 people.

According to the U. S. Census Bureau data released on September 13, 2011, the nation's poverty rate rose to 15. 1 percent in 2010.

According to the U. S. Census Bureau data released September 13, 2011, the nation's poverty rate rose to 15. 1 % ( 46. 2 million ) in 2010, up from 14. 3 % ( approximately 43. 6 million ) in 2009 and to its highest level since 1993.

The mechanism is that an increase in revenues from natural resources ( or inflows of foreign aid ) will make a given nation's currency stronger compared to that of other nations ( manifest in an exchange rate ), resulting in the nation's other exports becoming more expensive for other countries to buy, making the manufacturing sector less competitive.

Columbia has a storied job placement rate in general and, well known for corporate law, at the nation's top law firms in particular.

Broadcast historian Robert Metz, in CBS: Reflections in a Bloodshot Eye, claimed U. S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower himself did not want to be disturbed while the show was on and that the nation's crime rate, movie theater, and restaurant patronage dropped dramatically when the show aired.

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, worried about his nation's very low birth rate, said he hoped home ownership will inspire Russians " to have more babies ".

The infant mortality rate was measured at 11. 0 infant deaths per 1000 live births, less than two points above the nation's average for urban areas.

Considering the armament of two nations, Richardson posited an idealized system of equations whereby the rate of a nation's armament build-up is directly proportional to the amount of arms its rival has and also to the grievances felt toward the rival, and negatively proportional to the amount of arms it already has itself.

When calculated using the standards set by the Department of Education, UOPX's overall graduation rate is 16 %, which, when compared to the national average of 55 %, is among the nation's lowest.

The infant mortality rate was measured at 11. 8 infant deaths per 1000 live births, just over two points above the nation's average for urban areas.

They became known as the Prestes Column, and covered some 25, 000 kilometres from October 1924 to February 1927 " as they roamed through the interior of the country (...) seeking unsuccessfully to promote mass rebellion or at any rate to act as a moral gadfly to the nation's conscience ".

It changes only when the nation's " largest banks " decide on the need to raise, or lower, their " base rate.

Disinflation is a decrease in the rate of inflation – a slowdown in the rate of increase of the general price level of goods and services in a nation's gross domestic product over time.

In recent years the JDF has been called upon to assist the nation's police, the Jamaica Constabulary Force ( JCF ) in fighting drug smuggling and a rising crime rate which includes one of the highest murder rates in the world.

Conventionally, central banks have two principal tools to influence the value of their nation's currency: raising or lowering the base rate of interest and more effectively by the buying or selling of their currency.

By then, Berle and his audience had probably burned out on each other, and Buick had even dropped sponsorship of the show at the beginning of the 1955 – 1956 season ( opting to sponsor Jackie Gleason's half-hour filmed edition of The Honeymooners ), after ratings fell dramatically during the 1954 – 1955 as well ( the higher ratings of his 1955 – 56 competition, The Phil Silvers Show on CBS, didn't help Berle, either ); though Berle would remain one of the nation's beloved entertainers, overall, the show that made him a superstar was clearly spent for steam and fresh ideas, and two subsequent attempts at television comebacks hosting his own show lasted barely a year each.

Due to the large influx of silver, the value of silver in the nation's coinage dropped precipitously.

The immediate need for this kind of co-operation is underscored by the strain in this nation's international balance of payments.

That this is not good politics is underscored by the latest poll figures which show that 72 per cent of the people like the way in which the new President is conducting the nation's business.

This opinion is supported by one of the nation's leading psychiatrists, Dr. Maurice E. Linden, director of the Mental Health Division of the Philadelphia Department of Public Health.

They are hailed by the nation's press, and Smith girls throng the riverbanks at Northampton and refresh the voyageurs with hot soup and kisses.

Prince Souvanna Phouma, leader of the nation's neutralists and recognized as Premier by the Communist bloc, and Prince Souphanouvong, head of the pro-Communist Pathet Lao forces.

However, the Almoravid religious influence was gradual and not heavily involved in military strife, as Almoravids increased in power by marrying among the nation's nobility.

The Bantu-speaking society was highly a decentralized feudal society organized on a basis of kraals ( an enlarged clan ), headed by a chief, who owed a very hazy allegiance to the nation's head chief.

The company responded by extending its reach into the country fast-growing retail processed foods market, and though its prominence as the nation's chief exporter was partly restored by Perón's 1955 ouster and the IAPI's liquidation, its focus remained domestic over the next three decades.

The nation's terrain is coastal plain separated by rugged mountains, the Cordillera Central and the Cordillera de Talamanca, which form the spine of the country and separate the Pacific and Caribbean watersheds.

The other part of a nation's money supply consists of bank deposits ( sometimes called deposit money ), ownership of which can be transferred by means of cheques, debit cards, or other forms of money transfer.

Although Connecticut is a wealthy state by most measures, the income gap between its urban and suburban areas is striking, with several of Connecticut's cities ranking among the nation's poorest and most dangerous.

His attitude remained consistent, and he continued to maintain, by 1937, that " I would rather have no offspring than sacrifice our nation's interests.

Every two years the meeting is held in a different member state, and is chaired by that nation's respective Prime Minister or President, who becomes the Commonwealth Chairperson-in-Office.

In 2010, a lawsuit filed in 2004 by the Log Cabin Republicans ( LCR ), the nation's largest Republican gay organization, went to trial.

Rather than attending to the nation's economic problems, Velasco aggravated them by financing the dubious schemes of his associates.

In August, when Velasco was ousted by his minister of defense, nobody rose to defend the man who, only three years earlier, had been hailed as the nation's savior.

The main line of the nation's railway network runs from Alexandria to Aswan and is operated by Egyptian National Railways.

By the mid-1960s, the East Pakistan was accounting for less than 60 % of the nation's export earnings, and by the time of Bangladesh's independence in 1971, this percentage had dipped below 50 %.

At the same time, the nation's film industry, which was fully nationalized throughout most of the country's history, was guided by philosophies and laws propounded by the monopoly Soviet Communist Party which introduced a new view on the cinema, socialist realism, which was different from the one before or after the existence of the Soviet Union.

* 1980 – The Suriname government is overthrown by a military coup which is initiated with the bombing of the police station from an army ship off the coast of the nation's capital, Paramaribo

Foreign relations of Afghanistan are officially handled by the nation's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, which is currently headed by Zalmai Rassoul.

This has brought on difficulties for Guatemala as more people puts pressure in the nation's economic progress in a country where 70 % live in dire poverty, and political stability was weakened by an inability to have effective population growth programs.