The travel took longer and was much more precarious, but it brought imports, exports, new jobs, and competition for existing jobs among countries and individuals.
When the Filipino writer Crispin Salvador is found dead, his protégé, Miguel, resolves to investigate and to resurrect Salvador's precarious reputation as the Philippines' quintessential intellectual export.
Tunisia's heavy economic reliance on tourism since the mid-1960s, moreover, has been a questionable and precarious substitute for an emphasis on agricultural exports.
Much more needs to be done to promote development in this region, whose earnings from tourism, agricultural exports and financial services are both insufficient and precarious.
With Brent currently hovering around $60 per barrel, the state of Venezuela's economy is truly precarious, as crude makes up 96% of the country's exports and 25% of GDP.
6 As a consequence, this resulted in a precarious financial situation for many Japanese companies that were dependent on exports.
Although the region's economies are growing faster, thanks to an export boom, they are hobbled by poor roads and railways, clogged ports and a precarious electricity supply.
The new foreign minister claims that rising temperatures have caused irradiated bunkers once thought safe to leak, and that impoverished islanders are exporting toxic metals from their poisoned atolls.The AKA-dominated government's position is nevertheless precarious.
But it underscores Iran's precarious position as it faces ever-tighter Western restrictions against its oil industry, which provides the bulk of export and government revenue.
