"That's about 100 dinars," he said, or about $2.50 at the unofficial rate of exchange.
Unemployment is falling, to an unofficial rate of about 16 percent.
The official rate is one to one, the unofficial rate is six West German marks to one East German mark.
The official rate is one to one, while the unofficial rate in West Berlin is about six to one.
Until now, Peru has had a dizzying variety of four Government-set exchange rates, plus the unofficial rate which indicates the real value of the inti.
This move pegged the zloty's official rate to near the level of the unofficial rate.
The changes can only add to the cost of living, which is already rising at an unofficial rate that tops 25 percent a year.
The unofficial rate is 2,550 won to the dollar.
One of its chief demands is the freeing and unifying of the foreign exchange rate to eliminate the nearly 20 percent gap between the official and unofficial rates.
But I have used the unofficial rate of four Reichsmarks to the dollar.