The country is kept as a backward agricultural and non-industrial economy – as a source of mineral and natural resources, plantation products, semi-manufactured commodities, and cheap labor force.
Pinanatili ang bansa bilang isang ekonomyang atrasadong agrikultural at di-industriyalisado - bilang pinagkukunan ng mineral at likas na yaman, mga produkto ng plantasyon, mga mala-manupakturang produkto at murang lakas paggawa.