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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jfdlsjfd" data-source="post: 9516957" data-attributes="member: 42856"><p>While grey economy is indeed of factor, they can also rent a shelter whose price is adapted to the local market. These lists often confuse readers because they don't realize that the price of food and shelter in these countries is substantially lower than what they're used to. The GDP per capita ratio between Switzerland and Afghanistan is 250. Once you factor in the relative cost, the GDP per capita PPP ratio is only 45. And the five-fold difference isn't homogeneous, the decrease is mostly driven by lower cost of locally-produced goods and service. They might have a hard time buying products that are part of a global market, like oil, but they can afford a little more by paying for local services and goods: a dollar won't buy more iphone in Kabul than Geneva, but it will buy more organically-grown, local, intrant-free vegetables, so the PPP factor will not reflect the difference in consumption structure.</p></blockquote><p></p>