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Country Profile: Mali

Early History: The area now constituting the nation of Mali was once part of three famed West African empires that controlled trans-Saharan trade in gold, salt, and other precious commodities. All of the empires arose in the area then known as the western Sudan, a vast region of savanna between the Sahara Desert to the north and the tropical rain forests ...

COUNTRY LEVEL EVALUATION Maldives

After its independence from Britain in 1965, the Maldives has been a Republic since 1968 and has a parliamentary style of government with a strong executive. Under the former constitution, the President was both the Head of State and Head of Government. At the same time, he was Minister of Defence and National Security, Minister of Finance and Treasury a ...

Madagascar 2016 Country Review

Madagascar is located in southern Africa, an island in the Indian Ocean. Its population is predominantly of mixed Asian and African origin, as the first settlers there are thought to be Indonesians who brought African wives and slaves around the first century. Arabs established trading posts along the northwest coast in the 7th century. The Portuguese fi ...

Lithuania Report Sustainable Governance Indicators 2018

Formal democracy is well developed in Lithuania. Participation rights, electoral competition and the rule of law are generally respected by the Lithuanian authorities. However, substantive democracy suffers from several weaknesses. Despite some recent improvements, party financing is not sufficiently monitored or audited, and campaign-financing legislati ...

Kuwait 2016 Country Review

Kuwait is a small, oil-rich country nestling at the top of the Gulf, flanked by large or powerful neighbors - Saudi Arabia to the south, Iraq to the north and Iran to the east. With about 8 percent of the world’s total oil reserves, Kuwait is one of the world's leading oil producers. Threatened in the 19th century by the Ottoman Turks and various powerfu ...

South Korea Overview Opportunity: High-Speed Rail and Winter Olympics

Korea is a popular tourist destination for both Japanese and Chinese visitors, who, when combined, accounted for nearly 50% of its total international visitors in 2017. The geographic proximity plus its charming tourism offerings are ideal for short getaway visits, particularly to the capital city Seoul. The Korean tourism industry is driven by the peppy ...

Kenya Country Report

The Kenya Country Report is a publication by the Navarra Center for International Development. The report is a collection of the major economic, social and political indicators describing the Kenyan economy, obtained from reliable sources such as the World Bank, The International Monetary Fund, the Central Bank of Kenya and others. In-depth analysis is c ...

Country Profile: Kazakhstan

Until the arrival of the Russians in the eighteenth century, the history of Kazakhstan was determined by the movements, conflicts, and alliances of Turkic and Mongol tribes. The Kazakhs’ nomadic tribal society suffered increasingly frequent incursions by the Russian Empire, ultimately being included in that empire and the Soviet Union that followed it. T ...

Sri Lanka - Import Tariffs

Sri Lanka’s most-favored nation (MFN) applied tariff rate for agricultural products averaged 26.9 percent, and its MFN applied tariff for non-agricultural goods averaged 6.3 percent in 2017. However, Sri Lanka’s simple average World Trade Organization (WTO) bound tariff rates are generally much higher, and most products do not have their rates bound, whi ...

Armed Police Patrol Zimbabwe's Capital Ready to Stifle Protests

Demonstrators warned ‘you will rot in jail’ in run-up to planned rally in Harare Jason Burke Africa correspondent Thu 15 Aug 2019 17.35 BSTLast modified on Thu 15 Aug 2019 17.59 BST Armed riot police block a main road during a patrol in Harare on Thursday. Photograph: Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi/AP Hundreds of police armed with automatic weapons, batons and wat ...

Those Behind the Hong Kong Riots

In recent days, the news of us interference in Hong Kong affairs has become a hot topic. Roughly divided into two parts: First, American politicians foment unrest in Hong Kong. Second, the United States tried to eliminate the special treatment for Hong Kong, namely the independent customs territory; These two factors, on the one hand, create the impressi ...

Iran Has Ties to Al Qaeda, Trump Officials Tell Skeptical Congress

Iran Has Ties to Al Qaeda, Trump Officials Tell Skeptical Congress A street in Tehran last month. The possibility of war against Iran has invigorated efforts by Democratic and some Republican lawmakers to place limits on the president’s war powers. CreditCreditAtta Kenare/ Agence France- Presse — Getty Images WASHINGTON — The Trump administration is tell ...

Bp 4: Chief Minister S Department

chief minister s DEPARTMENT. The Chief Minister s Department provides leadership at a whole of government level for the planning, development, coordination and implementation of key Government strategies.

APEC Intellectual Property Rights Experts Group XIV Meeting

Chair s Report. On the APEC Intellectual Property Rights Experts Group XIV Meeting. Hong Kong, China, 19-20 March 2002. The fourteenth meeting of the APEC Intellectual Property Rights Experts Group (IPEG XIV) was held in Hong Kong, China on 19-20 March 2002.

Multi-Donor Trust Fund Office, Bureau of Management

United Nations Development Programme. Multi-Donor Trust Fund Office, Bureau of Management. GUIDANCE FOR COMPLETING. THE ANNUAL MDG ACHIEVEMENT FUND. JOINT PROGRAMME PROGRESS REPORT. Deadline for submission to the MDTF Office: 31 March2009.

Annex Table 1: List of 133 Recipient Countries Included in the Study

Bilateral Investment Treaties. Annex Table 1: List of 133 Recipient Countries included in the study. List of Source Countries and the number of BITs signed by them. Country Number of BITs. Belgium and Luxembourg39. United States of America37.

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