New Delhi: Paul Fernandes, a 50-year-old waiter in India, last year took a loan using his gold as a guarantee to pay for his children’s education after losing his job with a cruise ship.
This year, he sold his gold jewelry to meet costs, after an attempt failed to start a home business and found another job.
“Gold loan after all the debts I did,” he said from his hometown in the coastal state of Goa.
“Selling my jewelry means I’m not obliged to pay someone back along with additional interest about it.” With a pandemic pushing millions into poverty or bankruptcy, many Indians are now turning to their last efforts: selling their gold jewelry to meet needs.
In Indian countryside, the largest bar buyer, a new brutal virus wave has a disaster impact on the economy and income.
With fewer banks around, people in rural areas depend on gold when needed because it can be easily liquidated.
Gross scrap supplies, which include old gold melts to make new designs, can exceed 215 tons and a surge in the highest in nine years if the new wave appears, he said.
For countries that import almost all of its gold, especially from Switzerland, a higher local supply will also limit the inflows abroad.
“You already have a financial problem last year and you left the problem through a gold loan.
Now again, you experience financial problems this year with a third potential third wambling on the road, which can again mean locking and job losses,” Sheth said.
“We can expect sales depressed in a big way in August and September when the third wave can really be set.” Many Indians claw up the way out of poverty face the prospect of gloomy work because locking paralyzes the economy.
More than 200 million have returned to produce less than minimum wages, or $ 5, a day.
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