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MONTSERRAT

ANNEX 5

1.

Size

2.

Population

39 square miles

13,500

3.

4.

Present constitutional position:

government with mainly elected Legislative Council

Budget expenditure (1978) : £1,980,000

ministerial system of

5.

UK aid - budgetary

£180,000

total aid per capita (including project)

£60

6.

7.

Main activities and sources of income:

Tourism

Agriculture

Small industries (new)

Prospects: likely to be dependent on budgetary aid for several years;

recent indications of interest in

independence, but acknowledgement that first priority is economic development; could be scope for regional cooperation with, for example, Antigua.

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