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"The
All Jamaica ‘All Divisions’ Consumer Price Index for March 2014 was214.2 representing an inflation rate of 1.1
per cent. The chief contributors to this movement were the 4.3 per cent upward
movement in the index for the division ‘Housing, Water, Electricity, Gas, and
Other Fuels’ and the 0.4 per cent rise in the index for ‘Food and Non-Alcoholic
Beverages" Read
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The Producer Price Index for the Mining & Quarrying industry increased by 1.0 per cent for the month of February. This was due to the upward movement of 1.0 per
cent in the index for the major group ‘Bauxite Mining & Alumina Processing’.
Producer prices for the Manufacturing industry increased by1.2 per cent’. Read more
"The Jamaican economy recorded a growth of 1.8 per cent in the fourth quarter of 2013 when compared to the similar quarter of 2012. This growth resulted from increased output levels in both the Goods Producing industries (5.0 per cent) and Services industries (0.7) per cent."Read more
The count of the population based on the Population and Housing Census 2011 is 2,697,983. This total comprises 2,678,629 persons in private dwellings, 18,420 in institutions and 934 persons enumerated on the streets. Read
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"In
October 2013, the number of persons in theLabour
Force was 1,304,800,whichwas 20,900
(1.6%) higher than the 1,283,900 recorded in October 2012. The male labour force
increased by 7,900 (1.1%) from 705,700 in October 2012 to 713,600 in October
2013, and the female labour force increased by 13,000 (2.2%) moving from 578,200
to 591,200 during the same period"Read More
"Total
expenditure on merchandise imports between Jamaica and its trading partners in
2013 fell by 1.8 per cent or US$112.5 million to US$6,218.6 million when
compared to the same period in 2012. Earnings from total exports also decreased,
moving down by US$168.3 million or 9.7 per cent to US$1,559.1 million. " Read more
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