The average Cuban lives on an income of less than a dollar a day.
In many places, people live on little more than a dollar a day.
Over 220 million Chinese have been lifted out of a dollar a day poverty since political reforms began in 1978.
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When a family lives on the equivalent of a dollar a day, there is no alternative: if you can work, you work.
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Everybody kicks in a dollar a day and around two o'clock a guy comes with Hungarian pastries, which are to die for.
The average income of its 7.5m people is just over a dollar a day, and perhaps a third of them are chronically malnourished.
An estimated 80% of people in Madagascar, which has a population of more than 22 million, live on less than a dollar a day.
Internet pioneer and Robot Wisdom author Jorn Barger now lives on the streets, surviving on a budget of less than a dollar a day.
One in four works for just over a dollar a day.
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For the billion or so people around the world who live on the equivalent of a dollar a day, it could mean stark hunger, a price-induced famine.
According to Columbia University economist Xavier Sala-i-Martin, the percentage of people in the world living on a dollar a day or less a traditional poverty measure has fallen by 80% since 1970.
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Joe's little brother, Dom, started hawking papers before he was ten (he took the corner right across from Joe) -- and even Dommie brought home more than a dollar a day.
Market-driven policies, topped up with targeted subsidies, should be able to reach many of the 1.3 billion people living in what economists call absolute poverty, with incomes of less than a dollar a day.
Although even a low-cost could be an issue for those living on a dollar a day, or less, Professor Cloete believes that a small surcharge to sales in the West could help subsidize costs in the developing world.
The Bank claims that exploiting oil resources is one of the few development options open to Chad, where 80% of the people live on less than a dollar a day, and 90% of the country is desert or semi-arid.
That means if a thousand people stamp one dollar a day for a year, the message would be seen more than 300 million times.
For much of the 60s, 70s and 80s, China was a dollar-a-day poor, rural country.
Poverty lines are often calculated by a dollar-a-day measurement devised by Robert McNamara when he was president of the World Bank.
According to the World Bank, less than 3% of the population lives on less than a dollar-a-day, compared to more than 20% in India.
The ban, as you might imagine, is not only a dollar short and a day late, but also bad policy.
Set in some unspecified but very seventies looking future, Peter Martin (a luxuriously moustachioed Richard Benjamin) and John Blane (James Brolin) head off on a thousand-dollar-a-day vacation to adult theme-park Delos.
Our medical system is excellent at trying to stave off death with eight-thousand-dollar-a-month chemotherapy, three-thousand-dollar-a-day intensive care, five-thousand-dollar-an-hour surgery.
But in China, a country known for its old sweat shops, dollar a day poverty wages and currently grueling work hours that have caused dozens of people to jump to their death at places like the Foxconn factories, nearly half the population said their job is right up their ally.
Their iPhone assembly made headline news for years, and in every story, from Wired to The New York Times, Foxconn was made to look like a dollar-a-day sweat shop.
You painted a rosy picture of Indian corporatism without portraying the plight of those Indians who are still living on less than a dollar per day.
Yet Apple loses about a billion when it drops a dollar and on any given day billions are made and lost in its market cap from one hour to the next.
We all know that China has made some stellar progress in the last 20 years, going from dollar a day incomes to nearly ten times that today.
Between 1970 and 2000, the percentage of people subsisting on less than one dollar a day in Nigeria grew from 36 percent to more than 70 percent, from 19 million to a staggering 90 million.
Eurodollar futures and options, where investors hedged or speculated on the interest rate paid on a 90-day deposit of a dollar overseas, were half of the Merc's business, with 1.5 million contracts traded per day.
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