GNP/GDP estimates for the LDCs, on the other hand, are based on the conversion of GNP/GDP estimates in local currencies to dollars at the official currency exchange rates.
Rising labor costs and appreciation of the Singapore dollar against its neighbors' currencies continue to be a threat to Singapore's competitiveness.
In developing countries with weak currenciesthe exchange rate estimate of GDP in dollars is typically one-fourth to one-half the PPP estimate.
The heavy bronze coinage of the city of Rome was only one among many similar currencies of the central Italian states.
The German States had until within a few a years a bewildering array of currencies that would require whole pages of this book for their enumeration.
Since the unification of the Empire the old currencies have mostly disappeared, and a uniform system has been adopted.
When they introduced the gold standard, they set up gold currencies as well; and in several cases an official bank rate was established on the British model.
In 1893 four possible bases of currency seemed to hold the field: debased and depreciating currencies usually of paper; silver; bimetallism; and gold.
From the currencies of these it is an easy step to those of the great trading nations of Asia—India, Japan, and the Dutch East Indies.
In their essential characteristics and in the monetary logic which underlies them the currencies of India and Austria–Hungary (to take these as our examples) are not really different.
I say that from the currencies of such countries as Russia and Austria–Hungary to those which have explicitly and in name a Gold–Exchange Standard[13] it is an easy step.
The very currencies differ,' said Lord Carnarvon in the House of Lords.
The variations from fixed pars or rates of exchange in the currencies of different countries.
Holland and Cuba have the best currencies in the world: it is gold and the commercial bill of exchange, with small silver for change, and not a particle of bank paper.
We advance the promise of opportunity every time we speak out on behalf of lower tax rates, freer markets, sound currencies around the world.
It is a matter of undramatic daily cooperation in hundreds of workaday tasks: of currencies kept in effective relation, of development loans meshed together, of standardized weapons, and concerted diplomatic positions.
The enormous injustice suffered by the citizens of different States, in being obliged to pay their dues at the custom-houses in as many different currencies as there were States, varying at least twenty-five per cent.
It is used to denote both the difference between two currencies in the same country and the variations in the currencies of different countries.
It is, Sir, that you will write me very fully as to the amount of the several paper currencies now circulating in your State, the probable increase or decrease of each, and the respective rates of depreciation.
And we have no reason to doubt but that it may be restored, when we reflect on the fate which papercurrencies have formerly sustained.
I have been thus particular with respect to the amount of this sum, because the difference of currencies very often tends to deceive those to whom their real value is not a familiar subject of attention.
Due to political uncertainty, the zloty has recently depreciated in relation to the euro and the dollar while currencies of the other euro-zone aspirants have been appreciating.
Earnings in foreigncurrencies must be repatriated and sold to the bank unless special exceptions are made.
Amongst other examples of small currencies I have selected the Groat-Bill issued in the States before the Revolution, and also a specimen of the small postage-currency in use in the States immediately after the Civil War.
One of the quaintest of all currencies is that known as the Fishhook-Money, which can hardly be said to have even yet died out of use along the shores of the Persian Gulf.
Amongst the commonest of all currencies is the shell, and at the present time it is quite extensively used in various parts of the world--in Africa, in the Pacific, and in parts of Asia.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "currencies" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
