The city's Most Expensive But Also Poorest Universe

Cities with high living costs are usually accompanied by an increase in the population of the upper middle class. Poverty, congestion and crime ridden neighborhood is certainly not a character inherent town high cost of living.

However quote page CNBC on Friday (07/11/2014), as the most expensive city in the world, was also holding the title of Luanda's poorest. For two consecutive years, 2014 Cost of Living Survey for release Merces menyebutkkan, the Angolan capital back in the title as the most expensive city in the world for two consecutive years.

The high cost of living in Luanda fueled the country's dependence on imported goods. Angola is the middle reorganize the shattered country after a long civil war that lasted for 27 years until 2002.

Since then, Angola imports three-quarters of its consumption needs of other countries.

Moreover, the lucrative oil business inviting hordes of foreign workers enter the city. As a result, people's need, especially in Luanda Angola continues skyrocketed.

Came in second place as the most expensive city in the world is N'Damena, the capital of Chad. The place is a country in the desert in the region of Central Africa.

"Although in general the Luanda and N'Djamena not too expensive as a city, but the high cost of living for expatriates from imports make prices there soared," said Mercer research institute leader, Ed Hannibal.

Ensure that foreign workers can make ends meet is extremely challenging and expensive for governments in Africa. The conditions that make a lot of African countries into the ranks of countries with the most expensive living costs.