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Switzerland at a Glance

Switzerland, a country that espouses neutrality, is a prosperous and modern market economy with low unemployment, a highly skilled labor force, and a per capita GDP among the highest in the world. Switzerland's economy benefits from a highly developed service sector, led by financial services, and a manufacturing industry that specializes in high-technol ...

Republic of Suriname National Report

The Government of the Republic Suriname has been engaged in the process of drafting a National Report for Suriname in preparation of The Third International Conference on Small Island Developing States (SIDS). By drafting this report, Suriname is honouring its commitments with regard to the implementation of the Barbados Plan of Action (BPOA) and the Mau ...

Sudan Overview

 The humanitarian environment in Sudan has deteriorated over the past two years, with new, con ict-induced internal displacement in Darfur. About 400,000 new internally displaced people (IDPs) were registered between January and August 2014 in the country. According to UN gures, 6.9 million people are in need of humanitarian assistance in Sudan. Late ...

Country Review Spain

This report is one of the 31 country reviews produced as internal working papers for the research project “Monitoring and analysis of policies and public financing instruments conducive to higher levels of R&D investments” (Contract DG-RTD2005-M-01-02, signed on 23 December 2005). This project is a research project conducted for DG Research, to serve as ...

Country Profile – Solomon Islands

The Solomon Islands is a country in the South Pacific Ocean, lying to the east of Papua New Guinea and northwest of Vanuatu, composed of around 1000 islands of which approximately 350 are inhabited. The country has total area of 28 900 km2 . The major islands are Guadalcanal (5 120 km2 ) where the capital Honiara is located, Malaita (4 310 km2 ), Makira ...

Overview of Singapore

Singapore, officially the Republic of Singapore, lies at the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, and is separated from Malaysia by the Johor Strait and from Indonesia by the Singapore Strait. It is an island state with a total land area of 718 sq km, comprising the main island of Singapore and 63 surrounding islets.

Seychelles 2016 Country Review

SEYCHELLES Seychelles is a country of the Indian Ocean archipelago. A lengthy struggle between France and Britain for the islands ended in 1814, when France ceded the islands to Britain. Seychelles achieved independence in 1976. The country has remained a multi-party democracy with the adoption of a new constitution in 1993. Since independence, Seychelle ...

Country Profile: Sierra Leone

This country profile forms part of SOMO’s programme on Multinational Corporations in ConflictAffected Areas. This four-year programme, funded by the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, aims to empower local NGOs and communities to analyse the impact of the private sector in conflict-affected areas, and to ensure that companies are held to account for corp ...

San Marino 2016 Country Review

San Marino is a landlocked country entirely surrounded by Italy with a population of between 30,000 and 31,000 people and an area of about 60 square kilometers, making it the third-smallest country in Europe, behind the Holy See (Vatican City) and Monaco. San Marino is considered to be the world's oldest republic. According to tradition, the country was ...

Country Profile – Saint Kitts and Nevis

The Federation of St. Kitts and Nevis comprises two relatively small islands, located about 100 km west of Antigua and Barbuda. The total area of the country is 260 km2 , of which Saint Kitts accounts for 170 km2 and Nevis accounts for 90 km2 . The twin island Federation is located between latitudes 17º10’N and 17º7o25’N and longitudes 62ºW and 63ºW, and ...

Rwanda: in Brief

Rwanda, a small landlocked country in central Africa’s Great Lakes region, has seen rapid development and security gains since about 800,000 people—mostly members of the ethnic Tutsi minority—were killed in the 1994 genocide. The ruling Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF) ended the genocide by seizing power in mid-1994 and has been the dominant force in Rwanda ...

Romania 2016 Country Review

With a population of around 21 million, Romania is one of the largest countries in Central and Eastern Europe. Between 1250 and 1350, the independent Romanian principalities of Wallachia and Moldavia emerged. In the 15th and 16th centuries Ottoman Turks conquered the principalities. In 1859 Wallachia and Moldavia were united as Romania. The country gaine ...

Peru - OVERVIEW

There is little anti-American sentiment in Peru; however certain sectors of Peruvian society including illegal coca growers, resent U.S. counternarcotic policies. Others blame U.S. foreign and economic policies for their difficult economic situation. Unrest and civil disorder usually last from a few days to a few weeks and is usually manifested by politi ...

Papua New Guinea 2016 Country Review

PAPUA NEW GUINEA Papua New Guinea is a South Pacific island country. In 1884, Germany formally took possession of the northeast part of the island of New Guinea and its offshore islands, and Britain took control of the southeast section known as Papua. Australia assumed administration of the British territory in 1902, and seized the German territory duri ...

Panama: an Overview

In Panama’s May 5, 2019, elections, Laurentino “Nito” Cortizo of the center-left Democratic Revolutionary Party (PRD) won a narrow victory in the presidential race with 33% of the vote in a seven-candidate contest, and will be inaugurated to a five-year term on July 1, 2019. Cortizo defeated Rómulo Roux, candidate of the center-right Democratic Change (C ...

Norway 2016 Country Review

Norway is Europe's northern most country, bordering the North Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean, west of Sweden. Between the 9th and 11th centuries, Viking ships from Norway raided coastal towns throughout Western Europe and also colonized Greenland and Iceland. The Viking settlements were unified around 900, but the area was subsequently shaken by civil ...

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