Economy of Cape Verde Economy of Cape Verde Cape Verde is a small archipelagic nation that lacks resources and has experienced severe droughts. Agriculture is made difficult by lack of rain and is restricted to only four islands for most of the year. Most of the nation's GDP comes from the service industry. Cape Verde's economy has been steadily growing since the late 1990s, and it is now officially considered a country of average development, being only the second African country to have achieved such transition, after Botswana in 1994. Cape Verde has significant cooperation with Portugal at every level of the economy, which
Literature of Cape Verde publish after independence. Mariano also wrote books that were about some earlier great Cape Verdean writers. Germano Almeida wrote "O dia das calças roladas" in 1982, "The Last Will and Testament of Senhor da Silva Araújo" in 1989 which mixes humor with cruel realism, sometimes pathetic, in a modern writing favoring the free indirect style. It was later made into a movie in 1997. He later wrote on the History of Cape Verde titled "" in 2003. His recent works are main set in around Mindelo including "De Monte Cara vê-se o mundo" in 2014, not long after the bay