Bangladesh suffers shortage of coins

[stonej]

http://nation.ittefaq.com/issues/2008/10/29/news0486.htm

[Mike Marotta]

On Oct 28, 2:45 pm, stonej <sto...@mail.lib.msu.edu> wrote:
> http://nation.ittefaq.com/issues/2008/10/29/news0486.htm

According to 2005 official data, nearly 40 percent of Bangladesh's
over 150 million inhabitants live on US$1 or less per person per day.
http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=76265

The World Bank defines poverty as affecting a person who earns less
than $1 a day.
http://news.alibaba.com/article/detail/food/100000685-1-food-price-surge-slows-bangladesh.html

Saturday, November 1, 2008
1 US Dollar = 70.14976 Bangladeshi Taka
http://www.oanda.com/convert/classic

DHAKA, 14 April 2008 (IRIN) - Over the past week the retail price of
rice has held steady, offering a welcome reprieve to anxious consumers
and government officials alike, and on 14 April the wholesale price of
coarse rice came down by 15-45 US cents per 37.32 kg bag.
But in Dhaka long queues continued outside government open market
sales (OMS) centres - established whenever a food crisis or food price
increases loom. At the same time there are frequent reports of
corruption and mismanagement at various government-run distribution
outlets...
http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=77752