According to a report presented by the United Nations Development Program, UNDP, at the end of 2009, Honduras It will have more than one hundred thousand new poor, due to the world crisis that is affecting the Central American country.
This worrying figure is added to that already existing in the country, which indicates that there are more than 130 thousand Hondurans living in extreme poberty. For this reason, the Government presented the anti-crisis plan to reduce the nearly 300 thousand poor people forecast for the end of the year.
Despite the measures that are thought to be taken, the outlook for 2010 is not going anything flattering for various international analysts. According to UNDP consultant Thomas Otter, the Honduran government you have to protect the people who will be affected by unemployment. Through various programs that insert them into a work activity.
One of the sectors that has been most affected in the Central American country is the maquila industry, which employs thousands of Hondurans. What will generate, according to ECLAC, higher unemployment in the country.
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