Cape Verde, Continued

Cape Verde is sai to be a developing country. Its gnp (nominal) per capita in three measurement in $ IMF (est.2007)/WB (est.2007)/CIA (est. 2008) is as follows :

Rank/Gnp-Rank/gnp-rank/gnp

100/2,925-94/2,706-98/3,365

Measure of HDI (EST. 2007)

.736, rank-102 nd.

The Cape Verde is a stable democracy with its constitutionadoptedin 1980 and revised in 1992,1995, and 1999. It follows a policy of non-alignment and seeks co-operative relations with all friendly states like Angola, Brazil,China, Cuba, France ,germany, Portugal, Spain, Senegal, Russia and theUS. It has a special partnership status with EU and 153 rd. member of WTO.

There are 10 islands and 5 islets in the Cape Verde archipelago, three of the islands are uninhabited. the islands of Cape Verde are volcanic in origin.

Economy ;

The economy of Cape Verde is mainly service oriented with a small industry in ship repair. It has

a trading relation with US, UK, and others. It is a very good tourist spot with beautiful scenery.