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- Economy
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- Overview: Ecuador continues to recover from a 1986 drop
- in international oil prices and a major earthquake in 1987
- that interrupted oil exports for six months and forced Ecuador
- to suspend foreign debt payments. In 1988-89 oil exports
- recovered--accounting for nearly half of Ecuador's total
- export revenues--and Quito resumed full interest payments
- on its official debt, and partial payments on its commercial
- debt. The Borja administration has pursued austere economic
- policies that have helped reduce inflation and restore international
- reserves. Ecuador was granted an IMF standby agreement worth
- $135 million in 1989, and Quito will seek to reschedule its foreign
- commercial debt in 1990.
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- GDP: $9.8 billion, per capita $935; real growth rate 0.5% (1989).
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- Inflation rate (consumer prices): 54% (1989).
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- Unemployment rate: 14.3% (1988).
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- Budget: revenues $2.2 billion; expenditures $2.7 billion,
- including capital expenditures of $601 million (1988 est.).
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- Exports: $2.2 billion (f.o.b., 1988); commodities--petroleum
- 47%, coffee, bananas, cocoa products, shrimp, fish products;
- partners--US 58%, Latin America, Caribbean, EC countries.
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- Imports: $1.6 billion (f.o.b., 1988); commodities--transport
- equipment, vehicles, machinery, chemical, petroleum; partners--
- US 28%, Latin America, Caribbean, EC, Japan.
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- External debt: $10.9 billion (1989).
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- Industrial production: growth rate 0.7% (1988).
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- Electricity: 1,953,000 kW capacity; 5,725 million kWh produced,
- 560 kWh per capita (1989).
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- Industries: food processing, textiles, chemicals, fishing,
- timber, petroleum.
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- Agriculture: accounts for 18% of GDP and 35% of labor force
- (including fishing and forestry); leading producer and exporter
- of bananas and balsawood; other exports--coffee, cocoa,
- fish, shrimp; crop production--rice, potatoes, manioc, plantains,
- sugarcane; livestock sector--cattle, sheep, hogs, beef,
- pork, dairy products; net importer of foodgrain, dairy products,
- and sugar.
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- Illicit drugs: relatively small producer of coca following
- the successful eradication campaign of 1985-87; significant
- transit country, however, for derivatives of coca originating
- in Colombia, Bolivia, and Peru.
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- Aid: US commitments, including Ex-Im (FY70-88), $457 million;
- Western (non-US) countries, ODA and OOF bilateral commitments
- (1970-87), $1.4 billion; Communist countries (1970-88),
- $64 million.
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- Currency: sucre (plural--sucres); 1 sucre (S/) = 100 centavos.
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- Exchange rates: sucres (S/) per US$1--526.35 (1989), 301.61
- (1988), 170.46 (1987), 122.78 (1986), 69.56 (1985).
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- Fiscal year: calendar year.
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