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Venezuela's economy faltered while poverty, [59] [70] inflation [71] and shortages in Venezuela increased. According to Martinez Lázaro, professor of economics at the IE Business School in Madrid, the economic woes Venezuela continued to suffer under Maduro would have occurred even if Chávez were still in power. [ 72 ]
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In its World Economic Outlook report, the IMF has provided inflation rate estimates between 1998 and 2019. In 2018, the annual inflation rate reached 929,790% and was expected to reach 10,000,000% by the end of 2019. [47] According to the October 2019 World Economic Outlook report, Venezuela's inflation rate of 500,000 is the highest in the world.
Venezuela's economy is highly dependent on oil production and exportation. [2] Venezuela is a member of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries. Its economy is prone to disruption given that price of oil fluctuates rapidly. In 2014, oil prices dropped. Since then Venezuela has had to adapt to a significant decrease in state revenue.
CARACAS (Reuters) -Venezuela's capital city Caracas and other regions of the country experienced a power outage early on Friday, the communication and information ministry confirmed. "We have been ...
An October 2020 report published by the Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA) by Venezuelan economist Luis Oliveros found that "while Venezuela's economic crisis began before the first U.S. sectoral sanctions were imposed in 2017, these measures 'directly contributed to its deep decline, and to the further deterioration of the quality of ...
In 2014 The Central Bank of Venezuela stopped releasing statistics for the first time in its history as a way to possibly manipulate the image of the economy. [199] Venezuela has also dismantled CADIVI, a government body in charge of currency exchange. [121] In May 2019, the Central Bank of Venezuela released economic data for the first time ...
Preliminary data compiled by Venezuela's central bank shows the economy shrank by 16.6 percent in 2017 compared with the year before, two sources familiar with the matter said on Thursday, the ...