Economic aid:
recipient: US commitments, including Ex-Im (FY75-90), $93 million;
Western (non-US) countries, ODA and OOF bilateral commitments
(1970-90), $586 million; OPEC bilateral aid (1979-89), $12 million;
Communist countries (1970-89), $36 million
Currency: 1 Cape Verdean escudo (CVEsc) = 100 centavos
Exchange rates: Cape Verdean escudos (CVEsc) per US$1 - 85.537 (1st Quarter 1994), 80.427 (1993), 68.018 (1992), 71.408 (1991), 70.031 (1990)
Fiscal year: calendar year
@Cape Verde:Transportation
Railroads: 0 km
Highways: total: 1,100 km (1992) paved: 680 km unpaved: 420 km
Ports: Mindelo, Praia, Tarrafal
Merchant marine:
total: 7 (1,000 GRT or over) totaling 11,609 GRT/19,052 DWT cargo 6,
chemical tanker 1
Airports: total: 6 with paved runways over 3,047 m: 1 with paved runways 914 to 1,523 m: 5