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DATE: TUESDAY, May 8, 1990                   TAG: 9005080571
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A-3   EDITION: EVENING 
SOURCE: Associated Press
DATELINE: WASHINGTON                                LENGTH: Short

THIRD WORLD PRICES UP 86

Consumer prices rose a record 86.3 percent in Third World countries last year, spurred by a 350 percent rise in Latin America, the International Monetary Fund reports.

The United States, the world's largest economy, was a little above the average of industrial countries at 4.8 percent.

Among 22 industrial countries the rise was only 4.5 percent, up from 3.4 percent in 1988, the IMF said Monday. The increases ranged from 1.1 percent in the Netherlands to 20.8 percent in Iceland.

by CNB