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Leathergoods town almost halves unemployment rate

07/01/2019

Ubrique, the mountain town in southern Spain that specialises in making luxury leathergoods, ended 2018 with an unemployment rate that was half that of a decade earlier. In 2008, at the start of the global economic crisis that hit Spain particularly hard, Ubrique had more than 1,600 people on its unemployment register. The corresponding figure at ...

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