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On 6 September 2007, the Zimbabwe dollar was devalued again by 92%, [20] creating an official exchange rate of ZW$30 000 to US$1, although the black market exchange rate was estimated to be ZW$600 000 to US$1.
Gold-Mac-Index: The value of the purchasing power for 1 g of gold (Gold.de: [16] calculation of the gold price average of the corresponding year), how many burgers one got for 1 g gold. A Swiss bank has expanded the idea of the Big Mac index to include the amount of time that an average local worker in a given country must work to earn enough ...
Production of 5, 10 and 20 para coins ceased in 1981, with bronze 25 and 50 para being introduced the following year. Nickel-brass 20, 50 and 100 dinara were introduced in 1985 and production of all coins less than 10 dinara stopped the next year. In 1988, brass 10, 20, 50 and 100 dinara were introduced. These four coins were issued until 1989.
In 1854, Secretary of the Treasury James Guthrie proposed creating $100, $50, and $25 gold coins, to be referred to as a union, half union, and quarter union, respectively, [21] thus implying a denomination of 1 Union = $100. However, no such coins were ever struck, and only patterns for the $50 half union exist.
Medical advances made in the last 50 years as well as increased agricultural productivity brought about by the "Green Revolution" have caused India's population to grow rapidly. [361] The life expectancy in India is at 70 years—71.5 years for women, 68.7 years for men. [291] There are around 93 physicians per 100,000 people. [362]
These were released as fiat currency in denominations of 1, 2, 5, 10, 50, and 100 yen along with subsidiary notes of 10, 20, and 50 sen in 1872. Almost concurrently, the government established a series of national banks modeled after the system in the United States which issued national bank notes.
(1998) was the first Indian film to enter the United Kingdom's top 10 box office charts. [45] Diaspora audiences in the United States and United Kingdom accounted for 55% of overseas ticket sales for films such as Kuch Kuch Hota Hai (1998) and Taal (1999). [50] In 2000, the overseas export market for Indian films was worth $100 million annually ...
The 25-, and 50-rupee notes are printed by Oberthur Technologies on Innovia Security's Guardian substrate and the 500-rupee note is printed by De La Rue on its Safeguard (formerly Flexycoin) substrate. [69] Lebanon: 22 November 2013 The Banque du Liban issued a £L50,000 banknote in polymer to commemorate the country's 70th anniversary of ...