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International Adoption is a very complicated and at
the same time is a very rewarding process. Thousands and thousands
families adopt every year from overseas. Orphans Adoption is proud
to be part of this exciting process and making some ground braking
changes in the way it’s done. Our agency solely focuses on the
family and its needs rather then simply on the paperwork alone like
many other agencies do. We stay close to our families through the
whole process of international adoption from start to very end.
From your fist phone call or email to Orphans Adoption you will be
working with a live person and will be able to talk on the phone
with a live person whenever you needed in order to resolve any
obstacles or confusions (we are not supporting automated phone
services, and if you call us during business hours there always be
a live person answering your phone on the other side with the
greeting from Orphans Adoption).
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ADOPTION HONDURAS: HONDURAS ECONOMY
Overview: Honduras, one of the poorest countries in the Western Hemisphere with an extraordinarily unequal distribution of income, is banking on expanded trade privileges under the Enhanced Caribbean Basin Initiative and on debt relief under the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) initiative. While the country has met most of its macroeconomic targets, it failed to meet the IMF's goals to liberalize its energy and telecommunications sectors. Growth remains dependent on the status of the US economy, its major trading partner, on commodity prices, particularly coffee, and on reduction of the high crime rate.
GDP: purchasing power parity - $16.29 billion (2002 est.)
GDP Growth: 2.5% (2002 est.)
GDP Capita: purchasing power parity - $2,500 (2002 est.)
GDP Composition: agriculture: 14%
industry: 32%
services: 54% (2002 est.)
Poverty: 53% (1993 est.)
Income: lowest 10%: 0.6%
highest 10%: 42.7% (1998) Distribution of family income - Gini index: 56.3 (1998)
Inflation: 7.7% (2002 est.)
Labor Force: 2.3 million (1997 est.)
Labor Occupation: agriculture 34%, industry 21%, services 45% (2001 est.)
Budget: revenues: $607 million
expenditures: $411.9 million, including capital expenditures of $106 million (1999 est.)
Industries: sugar, coffee, textiles, clothing, wood products
Production Growth: 4% (1999 est.)
Electric Production: 3.778 billion kWh (2001)
Electric Source: fossil fuel: 50.2%
hydro: 49.8%
other: 0% (2001)
nuclear: 0%
Electric Consumption: 3.822 billion kWh (2001)
Electric Export: 0 kWh (2001)
Electric Import: 308 million kWh (2001)
Oil Production: 0 bbl/day (2001 est.)
Oil Consumption: 29,000 bbl/day (2001 est.)
Oil Exports: NA (2001)
Oil Imports: NA (2001)
Oil Reserves: 4.5 million bbl (37257)
Gas Production: 35 million cu m (2001 est.)
Gas Consumption: 2.021 billion cu m (2001 est.)
Gas Exports: 0 cu m (2001 est.)
Gas Imports: 263 million bbl (37257)
Gas Reserves: NA (2001)
Agriculture: bananas, coffee, citrus; beef; timber; shrimp
Exports: $1.3 billion f.o.b. (2002 est.)
Export Commodities: coffee, bananas, shrimp, lobster, meat; zinc, lumber (2000)
Export Partners: US 69.5%, El Salvador 3%, Guatemala 2% (2002)
Imports: $2.7 billion f.o.b. (2002 est.)
Import Commodities: machinery and transport equipment, industrial raw materials, chemical products, fuels, foodstuffs (2000)
Import Partners: US 55.3%, El Salvador 4.3%, Mexico 4.2% (2002)
Debt: $5.4 billion (2002)
Aid: $557.8 million (1999)
Currency: lempira (HNL)
Currency Code: HNL
Exchange: lempiras per US dollar - 16.43 (2002), 15.47 (2001), 14.84 (2000), 14.21 (1999), 13.39 (1998)
Fiscal: calendar year
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