This paper compares costs of living across world cities. The international comparison program (ICP) reports price levels across world economies in its calculation of purchasing power parity through an...
The paper revisits the issue of poverty-specific purchasing power parities (PPPs), using the most recent (2011) International Comparison Program (ICP) results. The World Bank's global poverty count uses...
Although several studies have examined why overall price levels are higher in richer countries, little is known about whether there is a similar relationship at the urban and city level across countries...
Although several studies have examined why overall price levels are higher in richer countries, little is known about whether there is a similar relationship at the urban and city level across countries...
The 2014 release of a new set of purchasing power parity conversion factors (PPPs) for 2011 has prompted a revision of the international poverty line. In order to preserve the integrity of the goalposts...
The 2014 release of a new set of purchasing power parity conversion factors (PPPs) for 2011 has prompted a revision of the international poverty line. In order to preserve the integrity of the goalposts...
The International Comparison Program (ICP) is a global statistical initiative that collects prices, national accounts expenditures, and related information from the world's economies in order to compare...
The International Comparison Program (ICP) is a global statistical initiative that collects prices, national accounts expenditures, and related information from the world's economies in order to compare...
This report presents tabular data on the following topics: parities; price level; expenditure shares (nominal); per capita expenditures (nominal); expenditure shares (real); per capita expenditures (real);...
Updating existing databases with new ICP benchmarks represents a major problem, whether update is global or partial. Technically, each partial update will be incompatible with the remaining [not updated]...
In the 2005 round of the international comparison program (ICP), benchmark purchasing power parities (PPPs) were estimated for 146 countries around the world. The most common method currently being adopted...
This paper discusses two methods of linking: one that was actually used in 2005 and another that was discussed at the February 2007 TAG meeting. The 2005 linking procedure is based on one of the approaches...
The International Comparison Programintends to generate parities which represent national average prices. In practice, however, in many cases sampling framework used to collect prices does not cover the...
After the successful completion of the 2005 round of the ICP Asia Pacific, the regional comparison is due to be fully updated in 2011, along with the upcoming global exercise. However, there exists considerable...
After the successful completion of the 2005 round of the ICP Asia Pacific, the regional comparison is due to be fully updated in 2011, along with the upcoming global exercise. However, there exists considerable...
Included in this issue: Interview with the President of Islamic Development Bank (IDB). International and regional inflation. An output method for education purchasing power parties (PPPs). Dikhanov tables...
Long-term debt sustainability analyses are usually based on nominal debt numbers. While nominal debt is an important debt indicator, the present value of debt payments [PV] is in many respects considered...