| One tree can fetch 300 Bangladeshi taka in a country where many families survive on just 100 taka a day. |
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| Authorities have already distributed 8,600 tonnes of rice and 13.68 million taka in cash to flood victims. |
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| We were vagabonds but now we have land, a home and we earn around at least 6,000 taka a month. |
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| The Dhaka-based Bengali film industry churns out more than 100 low-budget movies a year at an average cost of 6.5 million taka each. |
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| Bangladesh has spent about 500 billion taka in efforts to stop erosion over the past three decades. |
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| With a loan from Yunus of 50 taka, it took Sophia only a few months to establish her own little business, increase her income seven fold, and repay the loan. |
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| Under the system, borrowers with perfect repayment records of income-generating loans, which must be repaid in a year, become eligible for housing loans of up to 25,000 taka. |
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| The phones are registered only in the name of women but they are also operated by their husbands and sons and shared out in the village at a few taka per call. |
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| In Bangladesh, the government has just imposed a tax of 900 taka on all new connections, in addition to an import duty of 300 taka levied on all imported handsets. |
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| Breastfeeding was encouraged inter alia through a programme that provided mothers living in poverty with allowances of some 300 taka per month for a period of two years. |
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| It was with pride, and great dignity, that at the end of the meeting Mazeda handed the young branch manager a sheaf of 500 taka notes, her repayment for the week. |
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