In Venezuela , poverty is fundamentally the result of inflation and loss of purchasing power by workers.
Rural poverty is by far higher than urban poverty.
Marquez has drawn up a list of priorities, apart from lowering inflation and encouraging the country's productive apparatus. We've got to recover people's standard of living. Inflation containment policies can't be restricted to purely monetary and financial considerations. It must be attacked from the angle of production and productivity as well. Investment in production raises production and productivity, generating employment and stimulating further investment.