Meleah Paull

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    Meleah is the Director of Data Research & Analysis, overseeing the Research, Goods & Services, and Housing teams. She joined AIRINC in 2015 as a way to continue traveling the world and stayed for the data. She has previously worked with governments, think tanks, non-profits, international organizations, and private and public companies. Meleah makes strategic decisions about how and where to collect data, analytical processes and tools, and answers client questions about core reference data. She received her B.A. in International Studies from the University of Washington and her M.A. in International Affairs from The George Washington University. She has lived and worked in Slovenia and Russia and is currently based in California.

    Recent Posts

    The latest results are in! Housing increases in Singapore, United Arab Emirates and more!

    Apr 06, 2023 @ 01:05 PM / by Meleah Paull

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    Every quarter AIRINC provide data points update on our cost-of-living research including housing, goods & services, tax and research locations.

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    Update on Housing in Poland

    Mar 30, 2022 @ 01:40 PM / by Meleah Paull

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    As the conflict in Ukraine continues, the outflow of people is impacting neighboring housing markets, especially Poland.

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    An Erratic Market in Dubai

    Jun 17, 2021 @ 12:03 PM / by Meleah Paull

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    Like many locations throughout the world, the rental market in Dubai has been chaotic since the start of the pandemic.

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    Online Retailers and COVID-19

    Jan 19, 2021 @ 09:36 AM / by Meleah Paull

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    COVID-19 has been a disruptive element in all sectors, upending societal norms and fundamentally reorganizing economies. While some of these changes are temporary, others may endure past the end of the pandemic.

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    You've Got Mail: Changes to international mail prices

    Jul 28, 2020 @ 07:27 AM / by Meleah Paull

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    In 2018, the United States declared its intention to withdraw from the Universal Postal Union (UPU), a 192-member body which regulates global mail service. The precipitating event was the growth of e-commerce and a shift for the U.S. from net sender to net receiver of international mail.

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    An Update on the Water Crisis in Cape Town

    Oct 29, 2019 @ 12:30 AM / by Meleah Paull

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    When I was visiting Cape Town during my recent survey, it was hard to believe that a water crisis had threatened the city so severely in 2017 and 2018 that city residents faced water restrictions as low as fifty liters of water per-person-per-day.

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    Currency and Payment in Zimbabwe

    Oct 10, 2019 @ 02:00 AM / by Meleah Paull

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    During the August survey of Harare, our visit found the Zimbabwean economy in a state of transition. This June, after a decade of using a mix of approaches but primarily relying on the U.S. dollar for transactions, the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe announced that a new Zimbabwean dollar (ZWL), also known as the Zimdollar, was the only acceptable form of payment.

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    Economic liberalization in Myanmar: Impact on Goods and Services

    Aug 04, 2019 @ 07:15 PM / by Meleah Paull

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    Economic liberalization in Myanmar over the past decade has brought significant change to the availability of goods and services in Yangon. While expatriates once shopped on home leave or R&R trips, now Mango or Nike are available at the nearest mall.

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    Keeping Pace: Increased minimum wage in Uruguay

    Apr 18, 2019 @ 12:04 AM / by Meleah Paull

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    Cost of living vs Minimum wage: On January 1, 2019, the monthly national minimum wage increased from 13,430 Uruguayan pesos (UYU) to 15,000 UYU, an almost 12% annual increase. Similarly, the minimum wage had been raised 9.5% the previous year.

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    A Headache for Aspirin Users in South Korea

    Jan 28, 2019 @ 01:00 AM / by Meleah Paull

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    During AIRINC’s November onsite surveys in Korea, aspirin was still absent from pharmacy shelves. The 500mg tablets have not been available for purchase since December 2016, when the Korean Ministry of Food and Drug Safety determined that the dissolution rate did not meet its standards.

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