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Nauru (/ n ɑː ˈ uː r uː / nah-OO-roo [13] or / ˈ n aʊ r uː / NOW-roo; [14] Nauruan: Naoero), officially the Republic of Nauru (Nauruan: Repubrikin Naoero) and formerly known as Pleasant Island, is an island country and microstate in Micronesia, part of the Oceania region in the Central Pacific.
In the same year the Nauru government budget shows that income from licensing foreign fishing vessels was over US$3,000,000. Nauru needs to import almost all basic and capital goods, including food, water, fuel, and manufactured goods, with Australia and New Zealand as its major import sources. In 2004 Nauru's imports totaled about US$19.8 million.
Phosphate mining, Nauru, 1919. The effects of phosphate mining in Nauru have had significant negative impacts on the island's environment and economy. [1] One of the most prominent effects of the phosphate mining in Nauru is the extensive environmental degradation that has occurred as a result of the extraction of phosphates. [2]
UBS publishes various statistics relevant for calculating net wealth. These figures are influenced by real estate prices, equity market prices, exchange rates, liabilities, debts, adult percentage of the population, human resources, natural resources and capital and technological advancements, which may create new assets or render others worthless in the future.
Healthy food choices and a child's nutrition can depend on a parent's income, "How the Other Half Eats" author says. Nutritional inequality persists in America.
Only 12% of the 3,000 respondents said they consider themselves wealthy and only 4 in 10 people who are objectively wealthy, with assets of more than $2 million, said they considered themselves rich.
The Nauru Phosphate Royalties Trust (NPRT) was a sovereign wealth fund developed by the government of the Republic of Nauru in which the government invested money ...
By Ryan Woo. BEIJING (Reuters) -A reporter from Xinhua landed in Nauru on Wednesday, the first from China's official news agency to step foot on the remote Pacific Islands nation after it ditched ...