Hello and welcome to Business Daily from the BBC. I'm Manuela Saragossa.

Coming up, queuing up all night to get dollars.

I can't go to work without cash. So I have to come here and get cash first. I don't even sleep.

I sleep by when I get cash.

We report from Zimbabwe, a country running out of cash,

and the uncanny parallels between Venezuela and Zimbabwe's economies.

This exponential rise in prices, this is the kind of trend that we have started to see in Venezuela.

So it's not unthinkable to see the situation deteriorating in Venezuela in the way that it did in Zimbabwe.

That's all here in Business Daily from the BBC.

What would you do if someone handed you a 100 US dollar bill?

It's a question being posed in a series of programs here on the BBC World

Service, which looks at the relationship we have with money, a series called Power and Money.

One of the investigating correspondence is Leslie Cohen, formerly of this very parish. I asked her

what she'd found out so far. Well, what we decided to do was look at what people would do with $100

because it's such a clear sum of money.

Everybody in the world really has a good idea of what a US dollar is worth.

And this would tell us more about the people themselves, the places they lived,

and what that amount of money was worth in their

country. So we went to two particular places. We went to the US, in fact, where the dollars

are produced and used. And we also went to Zimbabwe, where they are legal currency, because

the Zimbabwe currency imploded about a decade ago. So these two really different countries, we saw massive differences

in what people would spend the money. I'll just give you a very brief example. One mum of

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