Gambia

Start with tourism, remittances, agriculture, re-exports, and public services. 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 The Gambia, the external file is European tourism demand, diaspora transfers, food imports, and Senegal trade links; each item can move demand, prices, reserves, public finance, or bank balance sheets before the broad data turn ^S2,S4,S5.

Own currency: Gambian dalasi; monetary policy led by the Central Bank of The Gambia. 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 The Gambia 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}.