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How to Navigate Venezuela’s Faltering Economy

01/09/2018 GMT

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The app that tracks the cost of living in troubled Venezuela

The app that tracks the cost of living in troubled Venezuela.

Inflation in Venezuela expected to hit a million percent this year. With the country’s economy in such poor health we speak to a man who has created an app that gives people data on the real state if the economy.  

Also in the programme: Celebrated soprano Renee Fleming on singing at John McCain’s memorial service.

(Image: A woman shows new bills of the new Venezuelan currency, the Bolivar Soberano, at a barbershop in the border city of Pacaraima, Roraima State, Brazil, on 21st August 2018. Credit: Mauro Pimentel/AFP/Getty Images)

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