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(Opinion) Faltering Brazil A Lesson for Asia

2016-04-21 09:29:47       source:Global Times

April 20, 2016


"I started working in Brazil in the summer of 2013, when the country's economy was still booming. But soon I began to feel something wrong with the country.

I found that iPhones were sold at a surprisingly high price in Brazil. An iPhone 4 cost over $1,000, which was almost twice the price in the US and could be the most expensive worldwide.

And in monthly rent there was a cleaning charge of about $70 to pay the elderly black women - Brazil's most disadvantaged group - who did the cleaning every week. The cleaning fee was still charged even if you didn't use the service, and the clean ladies must stay in your home for three hours."


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