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- Economy
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- Overview: Economic activity consists primarily of subsistence
- farming and fishing. The islands have few mineral deposits
- worth exploiting, except for high-grade phosphate. The potential
- for a tourist industry exists, but the remoteness of the
- location and a lack of adequate facilities hinder development.
- Financial assistance from the US is the primary source of
- revenue, with the US pledged to spend $1 billion in the islands
- in the l990s. Geographical isolation and a poorly developed
- infrastructure are major impediments to long-term growth.
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- GNP: purchasing power equivalent - $150 million, per capita
- $1,500; real growth rate NA% (1989 est.); note - GNP numbers
- reflect US spending
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- Inflation rate (consumer prices): NA%
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- Unemployment rate: NA
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- Budget: revenues $165 million; expenditures $115 million,
- including capital expenditures of $20 million (1988)
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- Exports: $2.3 million (f.o.b., 1988)
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- commodities: copra
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- partners: NA
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- Imports: $67.7 million (c.i.f., 1988)
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- commodities: NA
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- partners: NA
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- External debt: $NA
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- Industrial production: growth rate NA%
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- Electricity: 18,000 kW capacity; 40 million kWh produced, 380
- kWh per capita (1990)
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- Industries: tourism, construction, fish processing, craft items
- from shell, wood, and pearls
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- Agriculture: mainly a subsistence economy; copra, black pepper;
- tropical fruits and vegetables, coconuts, cassava, sweet
- potatoes, pigs, chickens
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- Economic aid: under terms of the Compact of Free Association,
- the US will provide $1.3 billion in grant aid during the period
- 1986-2001
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- Currency: US currency is used
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- Exchange rates: US currency is used
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- Fiscal year: 1 October - 30 September
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