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As Europe's largest economy and second most populous nation (after Russia), Germany is a key member of the continent's economic, political, and defense organizations. European power struggles immersed Germany in two devastating World Wars in the first half of the 20th century and left the country occupied by the victorious Allied powers of the US, UK, France, and the Soviet Union in 1945. With the advent of the Cold War, two German states were formed in 1949: the western Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) and the eastern German Democratic Republic (GDR). The democratic FRG embedded itself in key western economic and security organizations, the EC, which became the EU, and NATO, while the communist GDR was on the front line of the Soviet-led Warsaw Pact. The decline of the USSR and the end of the Cold War allowed for German unification in 1990. Since then, Germany has expended considerable funds to bring eastern productivity and wages up to western standards. In January 1999, Germany and 10 other EU countries introduced a common European exchange currency, the euro.

The Federal Republic of Germany is a federal parliamentary republic.

Source: CIA World Factbook

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Mercados de tierras agrícolas en América Latina y el Caribe: una realidad incompleta

Journal Articles & Books
Juillet, 2003
Latin America and the Caribbean

Resumen En el presente libro se abordan, en catorce artículos los principales desafíos enfrentados por el mercado de tierras de América Latina después de una década de incentivos para agilizarlos. La conclusión general es que su desarrollo ha sido insuficiente y que la complementación lograda con otros mercados es fundamental aunque aún limitada, pero que su perfeccionamiento le premitirá transformarse en un eficiente mecanismo de acceso a la tierra.