In November the Ministry of Labor reported informal urban unemployment at 40 percent.

Many believe, however, that the process of economic reform must be accelerated in order to reduce urban unemployment below the current rates above 20%.

Additionally, efforts have been made to lower the estimated 60% urban unemployment rate by creating more job opportunities through investment in diversified sectors.

-More than 85 percent of the people should be covered by urban unemployment, medical insurance, and basic endowment insurance programs.

At the same time, urban unemployment fell to about 5 percent, from a peak of nearly 10 percent in 1983.

Employment pressures are so great that even as growth neared double digits in the last 12 months, urban unemployment still rose.

Open urban unemployment increased five-fold between 1981 and 1986, and 45 per cent of the working population did not have a permanent or full-time job.

Yet agricultural problems and urban unemployment led to increased migration to Europe for work.

You get high levels of urban unemployment there so migration to the urban areas and not finding employment situation.

Nevertheless, urban unemployment and underemployment have been problems throughout Paraguay's history.