Caribbean & Central America - April 2013 (ISSN 1741-4458)

Inflation & unemployment: The index of consumer prices was 5.6% year-on-year in March and 2.1% on an accumulated basis in the first quarter. The official rate of urban area unemployment was 5.6% in 2012, an improvement on the 2011 figure of 6.8% in 2011. However that masks severe underemployment. The total number of unemployed Honduras is 1.8m, up from 1.1m when the current government took office in January 2010.

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