Producing area distributings: Produce an Asia formerly western. 产地分布: 原产亚洲西部. 网络文摘精选 7、 Formerly [ In the past ] the place was a heap of ruins. 当初 这里是一片废墟. 《现代汉英综合大词典》 8、 Tribute formerly paid to freebooters along the scottish border for protection...
This paper suggests some other modifications to the model, and applies it to a region of the world that presents a distinctly interesting case. Changes in border effects of formerly socialist countries in Central and East Europe, and countries in the former Soviet Union are analyzed during 1976...
After joining the Soviet Union as part of the Transcaucasian SSR, Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia became separate union republics in 1936. Soviet rule brought urbanization and industrialization to the formerly agricultural region. As the Soviet state weakened in the late 1980s,tensions flared between...
Autopsy on an Empire: Understanding Mortality in Russia and the Former Soviet Union. The article focuses on the rising mortality in Russia after its division. The 1990s were a decade of turmoil for the formerly socialist countries. Besides ... Brainerd,Elizabeth - 《Journal of Economic Perspective...
This article examines the evolution of intelligence and counterintelligence services in selected Eastern European countries, formerly part of the Soviet Union, in the two decades of independence. It emphasises transitional influences, the high level of secrecy and the lack of effective parliamentary oversi...
We examine the effect of natural resource abundance on economic performance during the 1996–2011 period in the 15 independent countries that formerly comprised the Soviet Union. These countries were a largely homogeneous group with respect to institutional development, liberalization and economic performanc...
4.(often cap.) of or pertaining to the East in the U.S. 5.(cap.) of or pertaining to the Eastern Church or to any of the churches constituting it. 6.(usu. cap.) of or pertaining to the East; Oriental. 7.(usu. cap.) (formerly) of or pertaining to the Soviet Union and its...
There also are the nations that the United Nations terms the "least developed." Formerly termed the Fourth World nations, they remain isolated from the rest of the world's economic systems, technology, and politics. What Is the First World?
Until about 1991, the Eastern bloc was the Soviet Union and the communist countries of Eastern Europe. During the period of the Cold War, many Communist countries were virtually closed societies. Only recently have workers in the formerly Communist countries started to compete with workers in the...
Formerly an oil-driven economy, the country has built strong trade and diversified partnerships. Today, the services and industry sectors compose roughly equal halves of the GDP.110 The average life expectancy in the United Arab Emirates is 79 years. The infant mortality rate is four per 1,000...