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- Economy
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- Overview: Monaco, situated on the French Mediterranean coast, is
- a popular resort, attracting tourists to its casino and pleasant
- climate. The Principality has successfully sought to diversify
- into services and small, high-value-added, nonpolluting
- industries. The state has no income tax and low business taxes
- and thrives as a tax haven both for individuals who have
- established residence and for foreign companies that have set
- up businesses and offices. About 50% of Monaco's annual revenue
- comes from value-added taxes on hotels, banks, and the
- industrial sector; about 25% of revenue comes from tourism.
- Living standards are high, that is, roughly comparable to those
- in prosperous French metropolitan suburbs.
-
- GDP: exchange rate conversion - $475 million, per capita
- $16,000; real growth rate NA% (1991 est.)
-
- Inflation rate (consumer prices): NA%
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- Unemployment rate: full employment (1989)
-
- Budget: revenues $424 million; expenditures $376 million,
- including capital expenditures of $NA (1991)
-
- Exports: $NA; full customs integration with France, which
- collects and rebates Monacan trade duties; also participates in
- EC market system through customs union with France
-
- Imports: $NA; full customs integration with France, which
- collects and rebates Monacan trade duties; also participates in
- EC market system through customs union with France
-
- External debt: $NA
-
- Industrial production: growth rate NA%
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- Electricity: 10,000 kW standby capacity (1991); power supplied
- by France Indus
-
- Agriculture: NA
-
- Economic aid: NA
-
- Currency: French franc (plural - francs); 1 French franc (F) =
- 100 centimes
-
- Exchange rates: French francs (F) per US$1 - 5.3801 (January
- 1992), 5.6421 (1991), 5.4453 (1990), 6.3801 (1989), 5.9569
- (1988), 6.0107 (1987)
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- Fiscal year: calendar year
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