Despite the presence of 15 flexible sediment retention barriers, the channels presented net degradation during both 2009 2011 and 2011 2016, with 2838 and 147 m3 of material exported from the basin, respectively.
Inorganic Si is the main source of biogenic silica (up to 83 wt%) for lacustrine diatom communities, indicating the strong relationship between the subglacial material exported from the glacial system and the primary production in these glacial lakes during the Holocene. .
The city's manufacturing industries are based on the processing of raw materials exported through the port.
Two-thirds of all profits are earned by raw materials export companies, whose owners -- according to the Finance Minister -- prefer paying dividends to investing in development because they "lack confidence that investing profits in Russia would ultimately produce revenues".
The prices for their raw material exports are strong.
Although this price premium is positive for cocoa growers, the beans remain a raw material export.
Deflation -- falling prices -- meant that debtor countries, often dependent on a few raw material exports, couldn't earn enough to repay their debts.
In particular, the tension with Europe and the United States over Ukraine will shift Russia's energy and raw material exports – and the related pipelines – toward Asia and China.
Ishfaq Ahmed, the head of the Pakistani atomic energy commission, said the export of fissionable material, including enriched uranium and plu tonium, was banned but other nuclear material exports would be considered.
Yet with the world economy evidently slowing down (dramatically, in the case of emerging countries dependent on raw material exports), the eurozone extremely weak, and our own manufacturing industry affected by all this, the chancellor is still set on that budget surplus.
Some observers say the root cause is that the economy is still too dependent on raw material exports, as well as the Putin regime's reluctance to embark on reform to encourage diversification for fear of imperilling its control.
