This was the first month since September 2008 in which exports were higher than a year earlier.Industrial production in Singapore rose by 14.4% in the 12 months to December.
Our findings, which are based on newly collected measures of labor rights around the world, demonstrate a "California effect" on workers' rights, in which exporting nations are influenced by the labor rights conditions that prevail in their main trading partners.
One of the brightest spots is operational leasing — a segment of the industry that handles short-term deals on airplanes, vehicles and other equipment — in which exports exceeded imports by eight to one.
We pointed out previously that for the set of 14 countries in which exports of these goods contribute more than 20%% of the total, it is the technology-intensive exports that have the least d i content.
However, the Bank warned that lower oil prices would hurt growth in countries which export oil, such as Russia, weighing on its global growth predicitions.
In common with the other Orkney islands, Shapinsay is fertile agricultural land, with farms specialising in beef and lamb which export thousands of cattle and sheep annually.
"But now there are no alternatives," said Ms. Nardi, who is co-chief executive, with her sister, of an outdoor furniture factory in Vicenza, which exports more than half of its goods to other countries in the union.
Joy Parkinson, managing director of beauty products company Faith in Nature which exports to 38 countries, also dismissed Fox's comments.
But such pressure has little effect in Nigeria, which exports around $200m of oil, mostly westwards, every day.
In 2010, according to the I.N.C.B., ninety-nine per cent of the global production of licit opium — five hundred and eighty tons — occurred in India, which exported the majority of it.
