economy, with the nation being both a major importer and exporter of goods and services. That said, trade policy has turned more protectionist in recent years, with the country pulling out of talks to join the CPTPP trade agreement and locked in a trade and technology war with China. ...
Britain's American colonies broke with the mother country in 1776 and were recognized as the new nation of the United States of America following the Treaty of Paris in 1783. During the 19th and 20th centuries, 37 new states were added to the original 13 as the nation expanded across the ...
…Nato is America’s kind of international partnership: a classic politico-military alliance of nation states. It has never purported to assume sovereign functions, and is as distant as is imaginable from the EU paradigm. He explains that some of them – most notably the IMF –are ...
" The dollar (currency code USD and 840) is the unit of currency of the United States.It is normally abbreviated to the dollar sign $, or alternatively US$ to distinguish it from other dollar-denominated currencies (and others that use the $ symbol). Noun 1. USD US Dollar Country United...
(1754-1763), the Northwest Territory and Canada. The original Thirteen Colonies declared their independence from Great Britain in 1776 and formed a government under the Articles of Confederation in 1781, adopting (1787) a new constitution that went into effect after 1789. The nation soon began ...
Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) is a specialized United Nation agency that leads international efforts to defeat hunger. It acts as a neutral forum where all nations meet as equals to negotiate agreements and debate policy. It is also a source of knowledge and information. Article-1 of...
transformed China from a poor and weak nation into the world’s second largest economy. China has fed nearly 20 percent of the world’s population with nine percent of its arable land. It now has a middle-inco...
American history Democratic capitalism in the United States THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN Mark C. Smith O'ConnorMikeFrom one era to another, a country's citizenry can hold varied expectations of its economy—from providing jobs to winning wars. Harnessing the nation's producti...
which will enable Filipino citizens belonging to the marginalized and underrepresented sectors, organizations and parties, and who lack well-defined political constituencies but who could contribute to the formulation and enactment of appropriate legislation that will benefit the nation as a whole, to bec...
GDP (official exchange rate): $2.228 trillion (2005 est.) GDP - real growth rate: 1.9% (2005 est.) GDP - per capita (PPP): $30,100 (2005 est.) GDP - composition by sector: agriculture: 0.5% industry: 23.7% services: 75.8% (2005 est.) Labor force: 30.07 million (2005...