$NA Inflation rate (consumer prices): 7% (1990) Unemployment rate: 15% (1992 est.); accounts for 6% of labor force; small, inefficient farms; imports more than half of GNP; paddy rice, corn, wheat, potatoes, plantains, coca; animal products - sugar beets, pulses, citrus fruit, pineapples; other crops and livestock Illicit drugs: increasingly important gateway country for cocaine Economic aid: US commitments, including Ex-Im (FY46-82), $4.6 billion; Western (non-US) countries, ODA and OOF bilateral commitments (1970-89), $325 million; Communist countries (1970-89), $18 million Currency: 1 Swiss franc, franken, or franchi
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