There are really two economies, the state-controlled one based on the official rate of exchange of some three dollars to the dinar, and the new free-market one, based on the illicit, but tolerated, one of four dinars to the dollar. 
While those on fixed incomes continue to benefit from the subsidies on basic necessities they are bludgeoned by the ever-rising prices that <tag "515648">derive</> from the private sector, free-market imports. 

