Q1 unemployment at 2.1% Saturday,June 06,2009 Posted: 22:20 BJT(20 GMT)   From:th    Article type:Redistributed Suwannee Khamman, deputy secretary-general, noted that the figure is better than expected. The NESDB earlier expected the unemployment rate to reach 2.5 per cent or about 900,000. She noted that employment is still expanding in the agriculture and services sectors as well as the government projects. "However, we're concerned with the rising household debts among low-income earners, as risks are greater at the time of economic downturn," she said.

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