<prompt> Translate the following text to EnglishLicha ya ukosefu wa ajira na uasi wa kujitenga, kiwango cha ukuaji wa uchumi wa nchi hiyo kilibaki kuwa moja ya juu zaidi katika Ulaya ya Magharibi katika miaka ya 1980.  <response>: In spite of high unemployment and separatist rumblings, the countrys economic growth rate remained one of the highest in all of western Europe throughout the 1980s. 