(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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