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Despite these vexing problems, the world economy also shows great promise. Technology has made possible further advances in a wide range of fields, from agriculture, to medicine, alternative energy, metallurgy, and transportation. Growth slowdown, precarious recovery april 2, 2019 description. We apologise for any temporary inconvenience this may cause. Achetez et telechargez ebook the cia world factbook 2011 english edition. Like other countries in the region, antiguas economy was severely hit by effects of the global economic recession in 2009. It provides a two to threepage summary of the demographics, geography, communications, government, economy, and military of each of 267. Gdp purchasing power parity compares the gross domestic product gdp or value of all final goods and services produced within a nation in a given year. Country comparison gdp purchasing power parity the world.
The drawdown of international security forces that started in 2012 has negatively affected economic growth, as a substantial portion of commerce, especially in the. The world economic factbook 2009 euromonitor publications on. The world factbook provides information on the history, people and society, government, economy, energy, geography, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues for 267 world. Selected series from the publication are available in a database format. After strong growth in 2017 and early 2018, global economic activity slowed notably in the second half of last year, reflecting a confluence of factors affecting major economies. The world factbook provides information on the history, people and society, government, economy, energy, geography, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues for 267 world entities. There are many editions of it on amazon, but this was the best that i tried. This site will be undergoing maintenance on 9 and 10 august. The world factbook, also known as the cia world factbook, is a reference resource produced. In some contexts, the two terms are distinct international or global economy being measured separately and distinguished from national economies while the world economy is simply an aggregate of the separate countries measurements.
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