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- Philippines: Economy
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- <article><hdr>The World Factbook 1993: Philippines
- Economy</hdr><body>
- <p>Overview: Domestic output in this primarily agricultural
- economy remained the same in 1992 as in 1991. Drought and power
- supply problems hampered production, while inadequate revenues
- prevented government pump priming. Despite a flat GDP
- performance, GNP mustered a small 0.6% expansion, attributable
- to inflows of workers' remittances combined with smaller foreign
- interest payments. A marked increase in capital goods imports,
- particularly power generations equipment, telecommunications
- equipment, and electronic data processors, contributed to a
- 20.5% import growth in 1992. Exports rose 11%, led by earnings
- from the Philippines' two leading manufactures - electronics and
- garments.
- </p>
- <p>National product: GDP - exchange rate conversion - $54.1
- billion (1992 est.)
- </p>
- <p>National product real growth rate: 0.6% (1992 est.)
- </p>
- <p>National product per capita: $860 (1992 est.)
- </p>
- <p>Inflation rate (consumer prices): 8.9% (1992 est.)
- </p>
- <p>Unemployment rate: 9.8% (1992 est.)
- </p>
- <p>Budget: $11.0 billion; expenditures $12.0 billion, including
- capital expenditures of $NA (1992 est.)
- </p>
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- <l>Exports: $9.8 billion (f.o.b., 1992)</l>
- <l> commodities: electronics, textiles, coconut oil, copper</l>
- <l> partners: US 39%, EC, Japan, ASEAN</l>
- <l>Imports: $14.5 billion (f.o.b., 1992)</l>
- <l> commodities: raw materials 45%, capital goods 26%, petroleum
- products 18%</l>
- <l> partners: US, Japan, Taiwan, Saudi Arabia</l>
- </list>
- <p>External debt: $29.8 billion (1992)
- </p>
- <p>Industrial production: growth rate -1% (1992 est.); accounts
- for 34% of GDP
- </p>
- <p>Electricity: 7,850,000 kW capacity; 28,000 million kWh
- produced, 420 kWh per capita (1992)
- </p>
- <p>Industries: textiles, pharmaceuticals, chemicals, wood
- products, food processing, electronics assembly, petroleum
- refining, fishing
- </p>
- <p>Agriculture: accounts for about one-third of GNP and about 45%
- of labor force; major crops - rice, coconuts, corn, sugarcane,
- bananas, pineapples, mangos; animal products - pork, eggs, beef;
- net exporter of farm products; fish catch of 2 million metric
- tons annually
- </p>
- <p>Illicit drugs: illicit producer of cannabis for the
- international drug trade; growers are producing more and better
- quality cannabis despite government eradication efforts
- </p>
- <p>Economic aid: US commitments, including Ex-Im (FY70-89), $3.6
- billion; Western (non-US) countries, ODA and OOF bilateral
- commitments (1970-88), $7.9 billion; OPEC bilateral aid
- (1979-89), $5 million; Communist countries (1975-89), $123
- million
- </p>
- <p>Currency: 1 Philippine peso (P)=100 centavos
- </p>
- <p>Exchange rates: Philippine pesos (P) per US$1 - 25.817 (April
- 1993), 25.512 (1992), 27.479 (1991), 24.311 (1990), 21.737
- (1989), 21.095 (1988)
- </p>
- <p>Fiscal year: calendar year
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