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Sri Lanka Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka Kotte: 65,610.2 22,037,000 337.7 14,234: 0.780: Sri Lankan rupee (LKR) Sinhala Tamil: Head of State: Anura Kumara Dissanayake Head of Government: Harini Amarasuriya: 2024 [131] Syria Syrian Arab Republic Damascus: 185,180 23,865,423 118.33 2,900: 0.557: Syrian pound (SYP) Arabic: Head of ...
The Pakistani rupee depreciated against the US dollar until around the start of the 21st century, when Pakistan's large current-account surplus pushed the value of the rupee up versus the dollar. Pakistan's central bank then stabilized by lowering interest rates and buying dollars, in order to preserve the country's export competitiveness.
Up until the 1980s, the largest overseas market for Indian films was the Soviet Union. After Dharti Ke Lal, [3] the first Indian film to become a blockbuster at the Soviet box office was Awaara (1951), directed by Raj Kapoor and written by Khwaja Ahmad Abbas, released in the Soviet Union in 1954. [11]
Microsoft announced that it had purchased a 1.6% share of Facebook for $240 million ($353 million in 2023 dollars [31]), giving Facebook an implied value of around $15 billion ($22 billion in 2023 dollars [31]). Facebook focused on generating revenue through targeted advertising based on user data, a model that drove its rapid financial growth.
In November 2010, based on SecondMarket Inc. (an exchange for privately held companies' shares), Facebook's value was $41 billion ($57.3 billion in 2023 dollars [49]). The company had slightly surpassed eBay to become the third largest American web company after Google and Amazon.com. [87] [88]
€12.70 (US$14.2) per hour, with sub-minimal rates for those aged 19 €11.43 (90% minimum), aged 18 €10.16 (80% minimum) and for those under the age of 18 €8.89 (70% of minimum) [111] Eurostat calculates the monthly rate for Ireland as (hourly rate x 39 hours x 52 weeks) / 12 months.
It will instead be financed at a 2.4% interest rate [257] after China agreed to reduce interest rates from an originally planned rate of 3.4%. [ 258 ] The $44 million Pakistan-China Fiber Optic Project , an 820 km long fiber optic wire connecting Pakistan and China, will be constructed using concessionary loans at an interest rate of 2%, rather ...