In fact, the wealthiest man on the planet, Carlos Slim, had himself a billion dollar day.
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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.
That means if a thousand people stamp one dollar a day for a year, the message would be seen more than 300 million times.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The Central Bank will turn on its dollar vacuum machine and suck them out of the market every day at dollar auctions, building reserves.
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Paulson began snapping up Lehman debt for 35 cents on the dollar on the day of the bankruptcy filing in September 2008.
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If those critics listen carefully, however, they will hear murmurs about the possibility that the U.S. dollar will one day lose its position as the reserve currency.
The Polish zloty has been tumbling on the foreign-exchange markets, losing 5% against the dollar in a day and raising fears that it could suffer the same speculative attacks as the Czech koruna suffered earlier in the year.
The dollar-a-day definition of global destitution made its debut in the bank's 1990 World Development Report.
The ban, as you might imagine, is not only a dollar short and a day late, but also bad policy.
The U.S. dollar had a good day today to close over the 100-yen mark for the first time in four years.
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Lower tax rates, free trade and more stable currencies moved something like 2 billion people out of dollar-a-day penury into prosperity.
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Poverty lines are often calculated by a dollar-a-day measurement devised by Robert McNamara when he was president of the World Bank.
The RTS index was down 3.2% in Moscow, and the ruble fell against the dollar for the sixth day in a row.
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