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The Filipino Steve Jobs and/or Bill Gates?

 

Not many Filipinos know Dado Banatao.

I hope you would like his inspiring success story.

 

There is one Filipino, unknown to many, who may have been missed by Forbes Magazine among its list of billionaires. This Filipino with his Filipino wife, who lives in Atherton, California in a $20 million house, is estimated to have a $5 billion fortune.

His name is Conrado “Dado” Banatao. He was born on May 23, 1946 to a rice farmer and housekeeper where he grew up in a little barrio named Malabhac in the farming

World's Richest Countries

 

 

Qatar has been ranked as the world's richest country per capita in a new list compiled by US-based Forbes magazine. Blessed with the third-largest natural gas reserves in the world, the Arab Gulf emirate of 1.7 million people is benefitting from a rebound in oil prices.

 


In second place on the list is Luxembourg, with a per capita GDP on a purchasing-power parity (PPP) basis of $81,466.

 


Technology, manufacturing and finance hub Singapore is ranked third on the list. The country’s GDP (PPP) per capita is $56,694 (estimated from 2009).

 


To rank the world’s wealthiest countries, Forbes looked at GDP per capita adjusted for purchasing power for 182 nations.
At No.4, with a GDP (PPP) per capita of $51,959 (estimated from 2009) is Norway.


Oil-rich Brunei (ranked at No.5) has a GDP (PPP) per capita of $48,333.
Forbes used International Monetary Fund data from 2010, the most recent available, while