Word: exportability
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...alone can drive the national economy in a meaningful way. There must also be investment in agriculture and other sectors that employ most Cambodians, says Arjun Goswami, country director for the Asian Development Bank. "If one of these days I can go into Whole Foods and see a Cambodian export on the shelves, that's when I'll be a happy man," says Goswami...
Crocker assured Congress that we are making progress. The Iraqi government retook the port of Basra that week, Iraq's main export terminal. And now that the government is in full control of Iraq's oil infrastructure things will get better...
What Crocker didn't talk about was Iran - and its plans for Iraq's oil. Months before retaking Basra, the Iraqi government started talks with Iran about running an oil pipeline to Abadan, Iran's main export terminal. Iran also has said that it will have a say in Iraq's mega field Majnun, which may contain 30 billion barrels of oil - a rival to Saudi Arabia's larger field. I suspect, though, if he'd been asked about Iran, Crocker would have said it is simply one more reason we should stay in Iraq, to keep Iran...
...great battle, is to produce food in Nicaragua," Ortega said. "We have to fill Nicaragua with food, even in our yards at home, we have to plant a little bit of beans and corn. This will mean income, and will assure us food... it will allow us to export to international markets, to the rich countries that have money to pay for these products...
...Nicaragua's weakness has become its strength," adds Ivan Saballos, former director of the national export promotion agency, in reference to Nicaragua's dramatic increase in food exports to other Central American countries. "There will never be an industrial revolution here. That would be giving up our competitive advantage...