This action targets those people that have been using credit cards as a way to purchase at the official rate rather than the black market rate, in effect creating a dual credit card exchange regime.
Now, all foreign currencies must be changed at commercial banks at the official rate, barely a third of the black-market rate.
But the black-market rate determines the prices of everything from beer to school fees.
The country's current foreign-exchange system, which involves a fixed "official" exchange rate that makes the currency, the kyat, more than 100 times as valuable against the dollar as the black-market rate, is so confusing that many foreign companies have refused to re-enter the country even if Western leaders ease sanctions against Myanmar, the country also known as Burma, as expected later this year.
In Zimbabwe, the black-market exchange rate is nearly ten times the official one.
Dollars have been trading at four times the official rate on the black market.
That is much cheaper than the rate on the black market where one dollar costs about 6.3 pesos.
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Now, dollars sell on the black market at three times the official exchange rate and Maduro has had to devalue Venezuela's currency, the bolivar, twice this year.
With hyperinflation, a gap of around 10:1 has opened up between the official exchange rate operated by the bank and the true rate reflected in the black market.
The government has abolished jail terms for those caught dealing in foreign currency, offered extra incentives for private investment and brought the official exchange rate closer to the black-market one.
Is it structured to fend off the asset-eroding potential of triggers such as so-called Black Swan events, Black Monday-level market implosions, interest and inflation rate swings, war or an oil supply disruption?
Experts warn that restricted access does not decrease the abortion rate but drives the procedure underground, creating a black market that threatens maternal health and more adversely affects poorer women who do not have access to safe abortions abroad.
Only by resorting to the black market, where the ruble usually traded at values 5-6 times less than its official rate, could people freely get access to hard currency.
While the official rate for one liter of kerosene is 11.5 rupees, or 28 cents, on the black market it can sell for as much as 90 rupees, or more than two dollars.
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