Asian Development Bank and Nauru: Fact Sheet

Abstract

Updated yearly, this ADB Fact Sheet provides social and economic indicators on Nauru as well as concise information on ADB's operations in the country and contact information. The main challenge to alleviating poverty in Nauru is the establishment of an alternate economic activity as phosphate mining—the island’s one industry— has ceased to generate returns. A further challenge is the organization and management of a modern state that promotes a performance-oriented public service, an increasingly competitive and productive private sector, and good governance that can underpin public and private investment.