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The currency of Singapore is the Singapore dollar (SGD or S$), issued by the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS). [268] It has been interchangeable with the Brunei dollar at par value since 1967. [269] MAS manages its monetary policy by allowing the Singapore dollar exchange rate to rise or fall within an
The euro has since become the second largest reserve currency and the second most traded currency in the world after the US$. [165] As of October 2009, with more than €790 billion in circulation, the euro was the currency with the highest combined value of banknotes and coins in circulation in the world, having surpassed the US$. [note 1]
Bangladesh has a labor force of 71.4 million, [199] which is the world's seventh-largest; with an unemployment rate of 5.1% as of 2023. [200] Its foreign exchange reserves, although depleting, [201] remain the second-highest in South Asia, after India.
Uruguay is part of the One Laptop per Child project, and in 2009 it became the first country in the world to provide a laptop for every primary school student [170] as part of the Plan Ceibal. [171] Over the 2007–2009 period, 362,000 pupils and 18,000 teachers were involved in the scheme; around 70% of the laptops were given to children who ...
The global jewelry market size was valued at USD 353.26 billion in 2023 and is expected to grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 4.7% from 2024 to 2030. [87] As of 2022, the global jewelry market was valued at approximately $270 billion and is projected to grow to over $330 billion by 2026.
Rapper Ice-T. With the commercial success of gangsta rap in the early 1990s, the emphasis in lyrics shifted to drugs, violence, and misogyny.Early proponents of gangsta rap included groups and artists such as Ice-T, who recorded what some consider to be the first gangsta rap single, "6 in the Mornin'", [68] and N.W.A whose second album Niggaz4Life became the first gangsta rap album to enter ...
Re-narrated Horizon episode, first aired in the UK in 1972. [4]We give you a behind-the-scenes look at the making of a nature film. Oxford Scientific Films Unit shows how it tackles such problems as filming a wood wasp laying its eggs inside trees, the hatching of a chick and the courtship rituals of the stickleback.