| Last year, two smaller regional centres were established with a grant of one million Ethiopian birr approved by Colligan's office. |
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| They get about 2 birr a kilo compared to just 25 Ethiopian cents last year. |
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| I have taken a loan of 300 birr and I can use it to buy more produce at a cheaper price. |
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| Eritrea increasingly found that the two countries' common currency, the Ethiopian birr, was overvalued for its exports. |
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| I used all the money I had saved up, about 600 birr, to get my passport to go. |
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| It issues the national currency, the birr, and is also responsible for regulatory functions. |
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| He appreciated the quality and originality of Adamu's work and employed the artist at a salary of 50 birr a month, slightly under the average salary in Ethiopia at the time. |
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| When I do make a few birr, I have to plan it to last for a couple of days. |
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| Gray possesses an unfortunate East of Scotland birr that suggests a 21-year-old student interviewing for his first job. |
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| It expected, at launch, a one-to-one exchange rate with the birr, but Ethiopia refused to touch the new currency, insisting that all large transactions should be in dollars. |
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| Dollar transfers are compulsorily converted to Ethiopian birr, as your correspondent found out when The Economist wired money from London. Inflation is kept high by lavish state spending. |
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| Apart from the months of March and April 2007, when export earnings were down, exchange rate movements between the US dollar and the Ethiopian birr were favourable to export earnings throughout the period under consideration. |
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| The situation in Ethiopia, the main exporter of fruit and vegetables to Djibouti, limited the rise in local prices because of the depreciation of the birr on the foreign exchange market. |
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| Eritrea has taken an important step towards securing autonomy in monetary policy with the issue of its own currency, the nakfa, to replace the Ethiopian birr. |
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| Birr were not willing to give up without a fight and struck back with a second try, which left their days efforts to ten points. |
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| Birr had the type of start which Clarinbridge needed, particularly when they had conceded the wind advantage after losing the toss. |
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| That lesson was drilled into the hapless Galway champions yesterday by a supremely drilled Birr side. |
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| Due to unforeseen circumstances the day trip to Birr Castle has been cancelled. |
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| A night with this Birr native in the intimate setting of Moon River, where there is room for only 90, will be a very special evening's entertainment. |
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| Fifty members of Ballinrobe Active Retirement Group will betake themselves to Clonmacnoise and Birr Castle tomorrow on the occasion of their annual outing. |
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| Brendan of Birr spoke on his behalf with the result that he was allowed to go into exile instead. |
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| The match has been moved from Birr and is now pencilled in as the curtain-raiser ahead of the Division Two football semi-final between Offaly and Kildare. |
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