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- Economy
-
- Overview: Offshore banking, manufacturing, and tourism are key
- sectors of the economy. The government's policy of offering
- incentives to high-technology companies and financial
- institutions to locate on the island has paid off in expanding
- employment opportunities in high-income industries. As a
- result, agriculture and fishing, once the mainstays of the
- economy, have declined in their shares of GNP. Banking now
- contributes over 20% to GNP and manufacturing about 15%. Trade
- is mostly with the UK.
-
- GNP: exchange rate conversion - $490 million, per capita
- $7,573; real growth rate NA% (1988)
-
- Inflation rate (consumer prices): NA%
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- Unemployment rate: 1.5% (1988)
-
- Budget: revenues $130.4 million; expenditures $114.4 million,
- including capital expenditures of $18.1 million (FY85 est.)
-
- Exports: $NA
-
- commodities: tweeds, herring, processed shellfish, meat
-
- partners: UK
-
- Imports: $NA
-
- commodities: timber, fertilizers, fish
-
- partners: UK
-
- External debt: $NA
-
- Industrial production: growth rate NA%
-
- Electricity: 61,000 kW capacity; 190 million kWh produced,
- 2,930 kWh per capita (1989)
-
- Industries: an important offshore financial center; financial
- services, light manufacturing, tourism
-
- Agriculture: cereals and vegetables; cattle, sheep, pigs,
- poultry
-
- Economic aid: NA
-
- Currency: Manx pound (plural - pounds); 1 Manx pound (#M) = 100
- pence
-
- Exchange rates: Manx pounds (#M) per US$1 - 0.5799 (March
- 1992), 0.5652 (1991), 0.5603 (1990), 0.6099 (1989), 0.5614
- (1988), 0. 6102 (1987); the Manx pound is at par with the
- British pound
-
- Fiscal year: 1 April - 31 March
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