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The Bahamian economy is almost entirely dependent on tourism and financial services to generate foreign exchange earnings. The Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of the Bahamas is approximately $5.7 billion with tourism accounting for 50%, financial services nearly 20% and the balance spread among retail and wholesale trade, fishing, light manufacturing and agriculture. [9]
A clickable Euler diagram showing the relationships between various multinational organizations in the Americas v • d • e. The CARICOM Single Market and Economy, also known as the Caribbean Single Market and Economy (CSME), is an integrated development strategy envisioned at the 10th Meeting of the Conference of Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) which took place in ...
Pages in category "Economy of the Bahamas" The following 9 pages are in this category, out of 9 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
Only about 0.8% of the Bahamas' land area is arable, about 140 square km (54 square miles). [5] Most arable land is on New Providence, Abaco, Andros, and Grand Bahama islands; challenges for Bahamian agriculture include limited fresh water resources for irrigation, the difficulties of inter-island transport of goods in the archipelago, a lack of human capital, the country's small size (which ...
Economy of the Bahamas. Economic rank, by nominal GDP (2007): 132nd (one hundred and thirty second) Agriculture in the Bahamas; Banking in the Bahamas. Banknotes of the Bank of Nassau (Bahamas) Central Bank of The Bahamas; National Bank of the Bahamas; Communications in the Bahamas. Internet in the Bahamas.bs Internet country code top-level ...
The Bahamas became an independent Commonwealth realm in 1973, retaining Queen Elizabeth II as its monarch. In terms of gross domestic product per capita, the Bahamas is one of the richest countries in the Americas (following the United States and Canada), with an economy based on tourism and finance. [ 1 ]
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The districts of the Bahamas provide a system of local government everywhere except New Providence (which holds 70 per cent of the national population), whose affairs are handled directly by the central government. In 1996, the Bahamian Parliament passed the "Local Government Act" to facilitate the establishment of family island administrators ...