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- Economy
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- Overview: The economy is based on fishing, tourism, and
- offshore banking. Only subsistence farming - corn and beans -
- exists on the Caicos Islands, so that most foods, as well as
- nonfood products, must be imported.
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- GDP: purchasing power equivalent - $44.9 million, per capita
- $5,000; real growth rate NA% (1986)
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- Inflation rate (consumer prices): NA%
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- Unemployment rate: 12% (1989)
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- Budget: revenues $12.4 million; expenditures $15.8 million,
- including capital expenditures of $2.6 million (FY87)
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- Exports: $2.9 million (f.o.b., FY84)
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- commodities: lobster, dried and fresh conch, conch shells
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- partners: US, UK
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- Imports: $26.3 million (c.i.f., FY84)
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- commodities: foodstuffs, drink, tobacco, clothing
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- partners: US, UK
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- External debt: $NA
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- Industrial production: growth rate NA%
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- Electricity: 9,050 kW capacity; 11.1 million kWh produced,
- 1,140 kWh per capita (1990)
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- Industries: fishing, tourism, offshore financial services
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- Agriculture: subsistence farming prevails, based on corn and
- beans; fishing more important than farming; not self-sufficient
- in food
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- Economic aid: Western (non-US) countries, ODA and OOF bilateral
- commitments (1970-89), $110 million
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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: calendar year
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