Data for March this year is even better than the pre-pandemic figures of March 2020.
Uruguay s labour market showed some recovery Thursday as unemployment in March fell to 9.7% from February s 11.1%, according to a report released by the National Institute of Statistics (INE).
Data for March this year is even better than the pre-pandemic figures of March 2020 when unemployment was 10.1% as per INE s assessment.
Economist Aldo Lema explained in his Twitter account that in the year-on-year there were 67,000 fewer people jobless, partly due to a low comparison base, but the seasonally adjusted figures also showed a strong recovery during the first quarter versus the end of 2020.
This represents a small increase (0.2 percentage points) compared to the moving quarter from December to February.
Compared to the same quarter of last year, unemployment in Costa Rica has increased by 6.2 percentage points. Women continue to have a higher unemployment rate than men 26.1% and 13.7%, respectively.
Informal employment represents 46.6% of those with jobs. That comprises nearly 929,000 Costa Ricans.
Meanwhile, the INEC calculated the underemployment rate the percentage of employed people who work fewer than 40 hours a week and want to work more hours at 16.4%, a 4 p.p. year-over-year increase.
The working-age population outside the workforce was estimated at 1.58 million people, a statistically significant increase of 126,000 compared to last year.
UN Women Women in Ecuador have stayed in the páramo, an ecosystem in the Andes, despite the threats that desertification, overgrazing and other human activities pose to their sustenance. With funding from the Municipality of Spain, UN Women is working with the Azuay provincial government to improve the resilience of communities in Azuay province through a comprehensive intervention that includes women-led sustainable agricultural production. The project is also dismantling gender stereotypes and empowering women to contribute to decision-making processes in their communities.
Zoila Dolores Piedra Guamán is a farmer and homemaker from Puculay, in the Azuay province. Photo: UN Women/Jerónimo Villarreal
How women in Ecuador are restoring a fragile ecosystem in the face of climate crisis Women in Ecuador have stayed in the páramo, an ecosystem in the Andes, despite the threats that desertification, overgrazing and other human activities pose to their sustenance. With funding from the Municipality of Madrid, UN Women is working with the Azuay provincial government to improve the resilience of communities in Azuay province through a comprehensive intervention that includes women-led sustainable agricultural production. The project is also dismantling gender stereotypes and empowering women to contribute to decision-making processes in their communities. Date: Friday, May 7, 2021
Zoila Dolores Piedra Guamán is a farmer and homemaker from Puculay, in the Azuay province. Photo: UN Women/Jerónimo Villarreal
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – The Mexican inflation rate rose in April to 6.08 %, the highest since the end of 2017, after prices rose in the fourth month of the year by 0.33 %, the National Institute of Statistics and Geography (Inegi) reported Friday.
“The national consumer price index increased 0.33 % month-over-month in April 2021, the largest increase for that month since 2009. At an annual rate, inflation stood at 6.08 % year over year, the highest inflation rate since December 2017,” Inegi president Julio A. Santaella said on Twitter.
Inflation rises in Mexico to 6.08 %, the highest rate since the end of 2017. (Photo internet reproduction)
April became the fourth consecutive month of the rising inflation rate, after in January it rose to 3.54 %, in February it rose to 3.76 %, and in March, it climbed to 4.67 %.