Passage: The services sector made up nearly 50 percent of Paraguay's gross domestic product in 2004 and employed about 19 percent of Paraguay's working population. The importation of goods, especially from Argentina and Brazil, for sale and illegal reexportation creates service industry jobs. The services sector had a moderate growth rate of 0.9 percent from 1990 to 2003. The sector decreased by 7.8 percent in 2002, before rebounding in 2003 with a 1.6 percent growth rate. Instability in the economy and a large black market have hampered development of the formal services sector in Paraguay.
Aside from instability economically what has caused a lack of formal services sector? Besides a large black market, what has made the development of a formal services sector difficult? Between 1990 and 2003, how many years saw a declining growth rate? How many of Paraguay's working population was not employed by the services sector in 2004, by percent? How many percent of Paraguay's working population does not work in the services sector? How many percentage points did Paraguay's service sector exceed the average growth rate by in 2003? How many year time span did the service sector see a moderate growth rate of 0.9 percent? How many year time span did the services sector have a moderate growth rate of 0.9 percent? How many years did it take for the services sector to rebound? How many years did it take the services sector to rebound after the 2002 decrease? How many years did the services sector had a moderate growth rate from 1990 to 2003? How many years did they have a moderate growth? How many years into the moderate growth did they see a decline before going back up a year later? In what year did the service sector have a sharp drop in growth rate? What country imports many goods from Argentina and Brazil? What year did the service sector have a higher growth rate, 2002 or 2003? Which year had the highest amount of jobs in the service sector, 1900 or 2003?