Author: J. Salazar-Carrillo
Publisher: Elsevier
ISBN: 1483294587
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 383
Book Description
Contained in this book are studies related to the computation of purchasing power parities for comparing real income and product among Latin American countries. The principal components of income and product comparisons are discussed: from designing and executing benchmark studies, to extrapolating results for non-benchmark years. Different comparative methods and measurement techniques, including index number formulations, are considered. Comparisons of Latin countries with other countries are also undertaken.This volume aims to illuminate the thorny theoretical and methodological issues involved in regional comparisons, and to facilitate the practical application of the comparative approach to the many sided policy problems generated by a rapidly integrating international economy.
Comparisons of Prices and Real Products in Latin America
Author: J. Salazar-Carrillo
Publisher: Elsevier
ISBN: 1483294587
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 383
Book Description
Contained in this book are studies related to the computation of purchasing power parities for comparing real income and product among Latin American countries. The principal components of income and product comparisons are discussed: from designing and executing benchmark studies, to extrapolating results for non-benchmark years. Different comparative methods and measurement techniques, including index number formulations, are considered. Comparisons of Latin countries with other countries are also undertaken.This volume aims to illuminate the thorny theoretical and methodological issues involved in regional comparisons, and to facilitate the practical application of the comparative approach to the many sided policy problems generated by a rapidly integrating international economy.
Publisher: Elsevier
ISBN: 1483294587
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 383
Book Description
Contained in this book are studies related to the computation of purchasing power parities for comparing real income and product among Latin American countries. The principal components of income and product comparisons are discussed: from designing and executing benchmark studies, to extrapolating results for non-benchmark years. Different comparative methods and measurement techniques, including index number formulations, are considered. Comparisons of Latin countries with other countries are also undertaken.This volume aims to illuminate the thorny theoretical and methodological issues involved in regional comparisons, and to facilitate the practical application of the comparative approach to the many sided policy problems generated by a rapidly integrating international economy.
International Comparisons of Real Product and Purchasing Power
Author: Irving B. Kravis
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
The purpose of the United Nations International Comparison Project (ICP) is to compare the purchasing power of currencies and the real gross domestic product (GDP) per capita of different countries. It is well known that the usual method of converting the GDPs of different countries to a common currency, usually U.S. dollars, at existing exchange rates is misleading because exchange rates do not necessarily reflect the purchasing power of currencies. The ICP has found that the purchasing power of a country's currency over GDP can be as much as three times its dollar exchange rate, and thus the real GDP per capita is three times the value shown in an exchange-rate conversion. The unsatisfactory nature of exchange-rate conversions has become even clearer in the past few years under the new regime of managed floating rates. Changes in exchange rates of as much as 20 percent within the space of a year have not been unusual even among major currencies.
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
The purpose of the United Nations International Comparison Project (ICP) is to compare the purchasing power of currencies and the real gross domestic product (GDP) per capita of different countries. It is well known that the usual method of converting the GDPs of different countries to a common currency, usually U.S. dollars, at existing exchange rates is misleading because exchange rates do not necessarily reflect the purchasing power of currencies. The ICP has found that the purchasing power of a country's currency over GDP can be as much as three times its dollar exchange rate, and thus the real GDP per capita is three times the value shown in an exchange-rate conversion. The unsatisfactory nature of exchange-rate conversions has become even clearer in the past few years under the new regime of managed floating rates. Changes in exchange rates of as much as 20 percent within the space of a year have not been unusual even among major currencies.
Eurostat-OECD Methodological Manual on Purchasing Power Parities
Author: OECD
Publisher: OECD Publishing
ISBN: 9264011331
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Explains the why, how and when of the international price and volume comparisons organised by Eurostat and OECD and provides advice on the use and interpretation of Eurostat/OECD PPP figures.
Publisher: OECD Publishing
ISBN: 9264011331
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Explains the why, how and when of the international price and volume comparisons organised by Eurostat and OECD and provides advice on the use and interpretation of Eurostat/OECD PPP figures.
International Comparisons of Prices, Output and Productivity
Author: J. Salazar-Carrillo
Publisher: Elsevier
ISBN: 0444597719
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
The present volume provides a timely collection of material on the subject of international comparisons, contributed by leading scholars from an extensive range of relevant disciplines and geographical backgrounds. The papers in this volume have been classified into two broad groups united by overlapping themes. Part I includes essentially empirical papers intended to provide a clear picture of the different types of international comparisons that have been undertaken by various organizations and individuals. The papers relate to empirical studies of different sectoral and national income aggregates at both regional and global levels. The papers in Part II deal with methodological and analytical issues. Discussion of the appropriateness of various aggregation methods for international comparisons accounts for a major component of this section. The volume provides a set of stimulating studies on international comparisons of prices, output and productivity, and will provide a useful reference source for many interested readers around the world.
Publisher: Elsevier
ISBN: 0444597719
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
The present volume provides a timely collection of material on the subject of international comparisons, contributed by leading scholars from an extensive range of relevant disciplines and geographical backgrounds. The papers in this volume have been classified into two broad groups united by overlapping themes. Part I includes essentially empirical papers intended to provide a clear picture of the different types of international comparisons that have been undertaken by various organizations and individuals. The papers relate to empirical studies of different sectoral and national income aggregates at both regional and global levels. The papers in Part II deal with methodological and analytical issues. Discussion of the appropriateness of various aggregation methods for international comparisons accounts for a major component of this section. The volume provides a set of stimulating studies on international comparisons of prices, output and productivity, and will provide a useful reference source for many interested readers around the world.
International and Interarea Comparisons of Income, Output, and Prices
Author: Alan Heston
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226331121
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 546
Book Description
Economists wish to compare prices, real income, and output across countries and regions for many purposes. In the past, such comparisons were made in nominal terms, or by using exchange rates across countries, ignoring differences in price levels and thus distorting the results. Great progress has been made in interspatial comparisons in the past thirty years, but descriptions and discussions of the new measures have been scattered in unpublished or inaccessible papers. International and Interarea Comparisons of Income, Output, and Prices includes discussions of developments in the United Nations International Comparison Program, the largest effort in this field, and in the ICOP program on the production side, including efforts in both to extend the comparisons to the formerly planned economies. Other papers in this volume explore new programs on interspatial comparisons within the United States. There are also theoretical papers on how interspatial comparisons should be made and several examples of uses of such comparisons.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226331121
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 546
Book Description
Economists wish to compare prices, real income, and output across countries and regions for many purposes. In the past, such comparisons were made in nominal terms, or by using exchange rates across countries, ignoring differences in price levels and thus distorting the results. Great progress has been made in interspatial comparisons in the past thirty years, but descriptions and discussions of the new measures have been scattered in unpublished or inaccessible papers. International and Interarea Comparisons of Income, Output, and Prices includes discussions of developments in the United Nations International Comparison Program, the largest effort in this field, and in the ICOP program on the production side, including efforts in both to extend the comparisons to the formerly planned economies. Other papers in this volume explore new programs on interspatial comparisons within the United States. There are also theoretical papers on how interspatial comparisons should be made and several examples of uses of such comparisons.
A Select Bibliography On Economic Development
Author: John P. Powelson
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429727577
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
This bibliography of more than 2,000 titles contains both books and journal articles, primarily those published since 1970. Most of the entries are annotated. The material is classified according to forty-eight categories, and there is also a list of relevant titles for each major country in Africa, Asia, and Latin America.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429727577
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
This bibliography of more than 2,000 titles contains both books and journal articles, primarily those published since 1970. Most of the entries are annotated. The material is classified according to forty-eight categories, and there is also a list of relevant titles for each major country in Africa, Asia, and Latin America.
Foreign assistance and related programs appropriations for fiscal year 1983
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Foreign Operations
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Economic assistance, American
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Economic assistance, American
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
Foreign assistance and related programs appropriations for fiscal year 1984
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Foreign Operations and Related Programs
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Economic assistance, American
Languages : en
Pages : 1448
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Economic assistance, American
Languages : en
Pages : 1448
Book Description
Labor Developments Abroad
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Labor
Languages : en
Pages : 868
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Labor
Languages : en
Pages : 868
Book Description
Labor Developments Abroad
Author: United States. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Labor
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Labor
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description