Economics

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Economic Crisis in Venezuela

Level:: AS, A-Level, IB

Board:: AQA, Edexcel, OCR, IB, Eduqas, WJEC

Last updated 29 Jan 2018

This is a regularly updated curation of study resources on the economic crisis in Venezuela.

How people live in cash-strapped Venezuela

News articles on Venezuela

Venezuelan inflation reaches 6,500% (Zero Hedge, January 2018)

Venezuela offers chocolates but little else to creditors (Reuters, November 2017)

Venezuela's worst economic crisis: What went wrong? (Al Jazeerah, May 2017)

Venezuela unveils virtual currency amid economic crisis(BBC News, December 2017)

‘Every time you buy less’: Venezuela teeters on the brink

Cash crunch: how Venezuela inadvertently became a cashless economy (Guardian, November 2017)

The price of oil dependency - the price needed for each OPEC oil exporting government to balance their budget

Hyperinflation fuel instability and hunger in Venezuela

Bad enough that Venezuela Pres Maduro's autocratic incompetence leads to hyperinflation and food/medicine shortages, but his stubborn denial of that reality blocks much-needed intergovernmental humanitarian relief efforts. https://t.co/ynfvizbfZT pic.twitter.com/Txby4MsSvu
— Kenneth Roth (@KenRoth) January 25, 2018