High prices concern Indians in Qatar |
Ajit, an Indian electrician, is just seven months into his new job but right now he is a worried man, like many other members of the huge migrant workforce in Qatar. He frets not only about his job, his future in the country but also the price of food. The price of food will go up and there will be no jobs, he told AFP. Ajit has come up with a solution to cope with the rising food prices in Doha -- cut down to just one meal a day. He is typical of the nervous migrant workforce. It is Qatar`s foreign workforce - totalling more than two million, mostly from south Asia -- who are on the frontline when it comes to the immediate impact of the crisis. While Qatar`s Western expats are likely to ride out the economic impact, there is no such luxury for Ajit and his colleagues. The rising price of staple foods is just one of their fears. Concerns are also growing about job security and the lack of much-needed overtime as economic uncertainty grows, due to what Doha has labelled the ``blockade`` imposed by neighbouring countries.
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