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Eighteen Minutes in Geneva, Three Hours in Saigon
A Geneva worker earns their Big Mac in 18 minutes. In Ho Chi Minh City it takes nearly three hours, for a burger the index calls 53% cheap. Measured in work rather than dollars, the region's cost rankings invert.
By our editorsBy Jonathan Goh4 August 2026
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