Causes of Hyperinflation On Venenzuela
Causes of Hyperinflation On Venenzuela
Causes of Hyperinflation On Venenzuela
Venezuela’s economic crisis has made headlines all over the world for the past few years hunger
is widespread there unable to afford the small amount of food available in supermarkets many
Venezuelans have reported to eating garbage to survive even zoo animals in Venezuela are
starving according to a report by the Daily Mail and people have been breaking into zoos to eat
them a recent survey found that the food crisis has also created an education crisis as more than
one million children no longer attend school mostly due to hunger in a lack of public services
voice is random a bleak assessment of Venezuela’s current situation says the country is suffering
an unprecedented man made humanitarian crisis they say Venezuela resembles a country at war
and note some of its major social problems including extreme food and medicine shortages rapid
crimes in every city constant electric blackouts including an repression high prices are not the
only serious effect of hyperinflation as a guardian article notes the problem comes when the
supply of paper money and economy outstrips demand for goods and services causing the value
of the currency to fall following in the footsteps of Zimbabwe Venezuela turns to increasing its
money supply because it had no other means to pay its debts.
The two major effects of hyper-inflation on Venezuela have been seen in:
Unemployment
According to the International Monetary Fund, Venezuela's unemployment rate in 2019 is the
highest since the end of the Bosnian War in 1995 and the largest contraction since the start of the
Libyan Civil War in 2014. (IMF). According to the misery index, the unemployment rate in
January 2016 was 18.1 percent, and the economy was the poorest in the world. Venezuela has
not released official unemployment data since April 2016, when the rate was 7.3 percent. In
October of this year, the jobless rate hit 35%. By the end of the year, it was estimated that it
would increase to 39% to 40%, and that 60% of the economically active population belong to the
informal sector, which influences the low salary that has caused many young people to emigrate
to other countries.