The move by Venezuelan policymakers to devalue the official exchange rates and raise fuel prices will help to ease the pressure on the public finances, but the measures fall chronically short of what is needed to close the country’s huge budget deficit. More fundamentally, the measures will do almost nothing to alleviate the economy’s acute balance of payments crisis.
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