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Re: [PRE-SALE][ICO] Petro $PTR - Oil backed crypto currency launched by Venezuela
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happyminer1
on 25/03/2018, 22:18:01 UTC
Is the monthly wage (minimum) now 5 dollars, that would make most people unable to carry on living.   Even in India the poorest make more then a dollar a day for a while now, as I understand it anyway.      Sounds like an uncertain situation.

Live is very difficult for the majority of people: https://www.caracaschronicles.com/2018/02/21/encovi-2017/

But the ruffly 5,4 dollars per month are based on a valuation of the minimum wage according to a market exchange rate and not according to purchasing power parities. Some goods are extremely cheap in Venezuela because of subsidies. Those numbers of people living on one dollar a day you mention are based on purchasing power parities.

But again, in January 2018 the income of a family of five with two earners of a minimum wage including food allowances only would cover 9,6% basic needs! (That's based on prices in Venezuela.)