home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- <text>
- <title>
- Marshall Islands (US): Economy
- </title>
- <article><hdr>The World Factbook 1993: Marshall Islands
- Economy</hdr><body>
- <p>Overview: Agriculture and tourism are the mainstays of the economy.
- Agricultural production is concentrated on small farms, and the most
- important commercial crops are coconuts, tomatoes, melons, and
- breadfruit. A few cattle ranches supply the domestic meat market.
- Small-scale industry is limited to handicrafts, fish processing, and
- copra. The tourist industry is the primary source of foreign exchange
- and employs about 10% of the labor force. The islands have few
- natural resources, and imports far exceed exports. In 1987 the US
- Government provided grants of $40 million out of the Marshallese
- budget of $55 million.
- </p>
- <p>National product: GDP - exchange rate conversion - $63 million
- (1989 est.)
- </p>
- <p>National product real growth rate: NA%
- </p>
- <p>National product per capita: $1,500 (1989 est.)
- </p>
- <p>Inflation rate (consumer prices): NA%
- </p>
- <p>Unemployment rate: NA%
- </p>
- <p>Budget: revenues $55 million; expenditures $NA, including capital
- expenditures of $NA (1987 est.)
- </p>
- <list>
- <l>Exports: $2.5 million (f.o.b., 1985)</l>
- <l> commodities: copra, copra oil, agricultural products,
- handicrafts</l>
- <l> partners: NA</l>
- <l>Imports: $29.2 million (c.i.f., 1985)</l>
- <l> commodities: foodstuffs, beverages, building materials</l>
- <l> partners: NA</l>
- </list>
- <p>External debt: $NA
- </p>
- <p>Industrial production: growth rate NA%
- </p>
- <p>Electricity: 42,000 kW capacity; 80 million kWh produced, 1,840 kWh
- per capita (1990)
- </p>
- <p>Industries: copra, fish, tourism; craft items from shell, wood, and
- pearls; offshore banking (embryonic)
- </p>
- <p>Agriculture: coconuts, cacao, taro, breadfruit, fruits, pigs,
- chickens
- </p>
- <p>Economic aid: under the terms of the Compact of Free Association,
- the US is to provide approximately $40 million in aid annually
- </p>
- <p>Currency: US currency is used
- </p>
- <p>Exchange rates: US currency is used
- </p>
- <p>Fiscal year: 1 October-30 September
- </p></body></article></text>
-
-