Almost 65 per cent of the population were living on less than a dollar a day.

Forty per cent of the population, the majority of whom were women, lived on less than one dollar per day.

According to figures from United Nations agencies, 75 per cent of the population lived on less than one dollar a day.

Biofuels are even less efficient, costing more than 300 per ton of CO2 avoided, while doing just over one cent of good per dollar.

In fact, while the dollar depreciated during the last half of 2003, resulting in huge exchange gains in 2003, during the first five months of 2004, the dollar appreciated by 3 per cent against the euro and other major currencies.

And solar takes the absolute prize, costing more than 800 per ton of CO2 to do less than a cent of good per dollar spent.

Funding for family planning services decreased in absolute dollar amounts from 723 million in 1995 to 461 million in 2003, a decrease of 36 per cent.

They don't have that kind of money. Instead they give each of us a seven dollar and 95 cent box. They're like a stealth tower installation program.

The limitations described in (a) and (b) above shall not result in a benefit being smaller than either the United States dollar base amount determined in accordance with the Regulations of the Fund or 80 per cent of the adjusted United States dollar track amount.

As such, the Spanish dollar was worth slightly more than the U.S. dollar, and likewise, the Newfoundland dollar, until 1895, was worth slightly more than the Canadian colonial dollar.

Funding for reproductive health and basic research activities increased 275 per cent and 110 per cent, respectively, between 1995 and 2003 however, it was HIV AIDS activities that received the largest proportion of assistance, increasing 13 fold in absolute dollar amounts from 1995 to 2003.

As a result, the requirements in euro terms under the Staff costs items in the proposed core budget are higher by 2.5 per cent than the provision in the current budget, corresponding to an increase of 24.4 per cent in United States dollar terms.

In the last two months of the year, the dollar experienced a sharp depreciation of 10 per cent, contributing to the overall moderate foreign currency exchange impact for the year.

Bottom Dollar

The Dollar

The variance under this heading is attributable to the 11 per cent appreciation of the Cyprus pound against the United States dollar (an average of C 0.455 compared to the budgeted C 0.510) and to a 5.7 per cent salary scale increase effective 1 September 2004.

Given the depreciation of the United States dollar against the euro over the past two years, the near zero growth in euro terms leads, in United States dollar terms, to a nominal increase of 22.0 per cent at the time of preparation of this budget proposal (see paragraph 10 above).

After the Dollar

China s Dollar Problem

The Falling Dollar

Two Dollar Fallacies

Liberia used the United States dollar as its currency from 1943 until 1982 and continues to use the U.S. dollar alongside the Liberian dollar.

The Millennium Declaration of the United Nations stipulates the target of halving the proportion of the world's poor, whose income is less than one dollar a day, from 29 per cent to 14.5 per cent of all people in low and middle income economies by 2015 (MDG 1).

Adjusted for depreciation of the United States dollar and price inflation, the 18.4 per cent annual increase of ODA reported for 2003 relative to 2002 falls to about a quarter of that figure.

1.40 Although UNRWA's expenditure is incurred mainly in US dollars, 63 per cent of the income is received in non US dollar currencies, thus exposing the Agency to the risks of currency fluctuations.

The Fed s Dollar Distraction

But not the dollar.

Doomsday for the Dollar?

Goodbye to the Dollar?

The Death Defying Dollar

The Unloved Dollar Standard

While the renminbi has risen relative to the dollar, the dollar has declined against other major currencies.

After years of decline against the U.S. dollar, lempira recently stabilized at around 19 lempiras per dollar.

The Dollar is Still King

Don t Fear a Rising Dollar

The Return of the Dollar

How to Kill a Dollar

The Dollar and Its Rivals

Subsequently the dollar did decline.

The Dollar and the Dragon

The Future of the Dollar

The Three Trillion Dollar War

What Can Replace the Dollar?

Biofuels, for which the EU alone is now paying more than 10 billion annually to do less than one cent of good for every dollar spent, also take up fields that otherwise would have produced food.

With the current trend of marginalization of LDCs in world trade, the number of people living on less than a dollar per day might increase by 20 per cent or more within the next 10 years.