TY  - GEN
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ED  -   United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries, 2
ED  - 
TI  -   Kiribati 1990
PB  -   UNCTAD
KW  -   LEAST DEVELOPED COUNTRIES
KW  -   KIRIBATI
KW  -   ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT
N2  -   Development has been constrained by a narrow productive and resource base, distances from major world markets, problems of geographically scattered islands, fragmented population and infertile atoll soil. GDP at current factor cost fell from $36 million in 1979 to $23.5 million in 1980. Government revenue plummeted by 50 percent. The adjustment effort undertaken has made it difficult to maintain adequate social and government services
ER  -