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Among the salient macro-economic objectives of any government must be to control the unemployment and inflations rates. Popular economic theory indicates that these two economic indicators have an inverse relationship (as one falls the other rises).

According to the data this theory seemed to have roughly applied to Trinidad and Tobago during the period 1983 to 2006.