* Honduras’s central bank (BCH) has released new figures for its monthly economic activity index (Imae) which show that the accumulated growth rate for the first half of 2020 was -10%. This compares with 2.4% growth in the same period in 2019. The sectors worst hit were hotels & restaurants (-46.4%); private construction (-33.9%); mining & quarries (-25%); and manufacturing (-22.6%). However,the BCH noted that for the month of June, there was an improvement compared with May and April due to the partial resumption of economic activity which had been shut down to stop the spread of coronavirus (Covid-19). The latest forecast from the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America & the Caribbean (Eclac) expects that the country’s GDP will contract 6.1% in 2020.
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