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Economy & Business - March 2005
VENEZUELA: Unemployment jumps
The unemployment rate jumped by 4.6 percentage points in January from December to 15.5%. The rise means that 1.3m more people are without work. Local economists said that the increase was largely seasonal:
retailers lay off people in January whom they had hired for the Christmas season
- Commodities rise again, changing dynamics
- What's going to happen in 2005?
- Problems loom
- Copom tightens again
- ARGENTINA: Worries mount
- CHILE: Copper boom
- PARAGUAY: Off the bottom
- URUGUAY: Exports buoyant
- VENEZUELA: Unemployment jumps
- BOLIVIA: Congress approves hydrocarbons law
- COLOMBIA: Government defeated by dollar
- PERU: Exports surge
- ECUADOR: Bit of a boom
- NICARAGUA: Inflation stalks
- PANAMA: Decent growth in 2004
- COSTA RICA: Coffee worries
- CUBA: Drought worsens
- DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: Growth of 2% in 2004
- EL SALVADOR: Business call for shift to 5% plus growth
- GUATEMALA: Protests over Cafta
- HONDURAS: Strike to back 2000 wage demand
- The downside to the soya boom
- Nickel; oil; sugar
- COFFEE: Bulls in control
- MEXICO: Reforms of state sector possible eventually
- GUATEMALA: Up by 9%
- DEBT: The Argentine debt swap