Solomon Islands: Selected Issues and Statistical Appendix

August 12, 2004

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Solomon Islands: Selected Issues and Statistical Appendix, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2004) accessed October 11, 2024

Summary

This Selected Issues paper examines prospects for increasing growth and reducing poverty in the Solomon Islands. The paper highlights that agriculture constitutes the largest sector of the Solomon Islands economy, averaging about 20 percent of GDP throughout the 1990s. The Solomon Islands also has large fish resources, and the fisheries sector accounted for an average of 7 percent of GDP and 30 percent of total exports in the 1990s. The paper also examines the state of the financial sector in the Solomon Islands.

Subject: Agroindustries, Banking, Commercial banks, Economic sectors, Financial institutions, Income, Loans, National accounts, Public debt

Keywords: Agroindustries, Balance sheet, Capital base, Commercial banks, CR, Government default, Income, Income tax, ISCR, Loans, National bank, Net income, Nonbank institution, Pacific Islands, Private sector, Restructuring discussion, Return on assets, Solomon Islands economy

Publication Details

Pages:

70
Volume:

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DOI:

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Series:

Country Report No. 2004/255
Stock No:

1SLBEA0012004
ISBN:

9781451834338
ISSN:

1934-7685

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