Cape Verde

Start with tourism, remittances, transport, public services, and fisheries. Those sectors explain where income, jobs, tax receipts, and external financing pressure are most likely to show up first ^S1,S4.

Then separate domestic movement from external shocks. For Cabo Verde, the external file is euro-area tourism demand, diaspora transfers, imported fuel prices, and air connectivity; each item can move demand, prices, reserves, public finance, or bank balance sheets before the broad data turn ^S2,S4,S5.

Own currency: Cabo Verde escudo; the currency is managed under a long-running peg to the euro. The monetary setting matters because it tells the reader whether adjustment comes through interest rates, reserves, fiscal policy, credit controls, or imported-price pressure ^S2,S4.

The profile uses a strict source order. National releases control the country story; IMF and World Bank values are used to compare Cabo Verde with peers on the same definitions ^S1,S4,S5.

Use IMF values for cross-country comparison, then check the national source before quoting a latest release. That rule is especially important for small states, monetary unions, dollarized economies, and territories where regional data can look cleaner than the national release but answer a different question ^S1,S2,S4.

The fact file is dated because these numbers move. Treat any growth, inflation, unemployment, debt, or current-account statement as a release-sensitive claim, not a permanent description ^{S1,S6,S7,S8,S9}.