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Book Comparisons of Prices and Real Products in Latin America

Download or read book Comparisons of Prices and Real Products in Latin America written by J. Salazar-Carrillo and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2014-06-28 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book Price  Purchasing Power and Real Product Comparisons in Latin America

Download or read book Price Purchasing Power and Real Product Comparisons in Latin America written by Jorge Salazar-Carrillo and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Purchasing Power Parities and the Size of World Economies

Download or read book Purchasing Power Parities and the Size of World Economies written by World Bank Group and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2020-07-06 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The International Comparison Program (ICP) is a worldwide statistical initiative led by the World Bank under the auspices of the United Nations Statistical Commission. It produces comparable price and volume measures of gross domestic product (GDP) and its expenditure aggregates across economies. Through a partnership with international, regional, sub-regional and national agencies, the ICP collects price data and GDP expenditures to estimate purchasing power parities (PPPs) for the world’s economies. The report provides ICP results for the benchmark year 2017 and revised results for earlier years. ICP data are used for socio-economic analyses by researchers, academics, policy makers at the national and international levels, and by organizations such as the European Union, the International Monetary Fund, the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, the United Nations, and the World Bank. Notably, PPPs and ICP data are used in indicators monitoring progress towards eight goals of the United Nations’ 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, the World Bank’s international poverty lines, and the construction of the Human Development Index by the United Nations, among others. The use of PPPs continues to grow and the ICP website (icp.worldbank.org) lists many applications of the data by the development community, academia, media and others.

Book Prices and Purchasing Power Parities in Latin America  1960 1972

Download or read book Prices and Purchasing Power Parities in Latin America 1960 1972 written by Jorge Salazar-Carrillo and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Latin American Economy in 1965

Download or read book The Latin American Economy in 1965 written by United Nations. Economic Commission for Latin America and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Purchasing Power Parities and the Real Size of World Economies

Download or read book Purchasing Power Parities and the Real Size of World Economies written by World Bank and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2014-11-20 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 2011 International Comparison Programme (ICP) is a worldwide statistical initiative that aims to estimate Purchasing Power Parities (PPPs) to be used as currency converters to compare the size and price levels of economies around the world -- crucial information for research in comparative analysis and policy making.

Book A Measurement of Price Levels and the Purchasing Power of Currencies in Latin America  1960 1962

Download or read book A Measurement of Price Levels and the Purchasing Power of Currencies in Latin America 1960 1962 written by United Nations. Economic Commission for Latin America and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Purchasing Power Parity and Degree of Openness in Latin America

Download or read book Purchasing Power Parity and Degree of Openness in Latin America written by Omar A. Esqueda and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 15 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We move beyond the all or nothing purchasing power parity (PPP) proposition that has been the norm in previous literature. We test whether inflation, nominal exchange rate volatility, and trade and financial openness influence the stationarity of real exchange rates on a sample of Latin American and Caribbean countries plus Canada during the post Bretton-Woods era. Countries with high inflation and high exchange rate volatility are more likely to support PPP. Classifying the countries by traditional trade openness is not possible to find stationarity consistent with the findings of Alba and Papell (2007) that more open countries are more likely to support PPP. However, when trade openness is parameterized by “relative weight trade intensity” (RWTI), which provides a bi-dimensional approach to international trade weight, we find that higher trade openness leads to higher support of PPP. Westerlund (2007) cointegration error correction model (ECM) tests in panels indicate that financial openness supports PPP only when national debt is not considered. Financially open countries and those that open their borders to trade are more likely to have a mean reversion of exchange rates. These outcomes are relevant to emphasize the benefits of trade and financial openness in economies close to the United States.

Book Economic Growth in Latin America

Download or read book Economic Growth in Latin America written by and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book International Comparisons of Prices  Output and Productivity

Download or read book International Comparisons of Prices Output and Productivity written by J. Salazar-Carrillo and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2012-12-02 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book International and Interarea Comparisons of Income  Output  and Prices

Download or read book International and Interarea Comparisons of Income Output and Prices written by Alan Heston and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2007-12-01 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book Government Expenditures on Agriculture in Latin America

Download or read book Government Expenditures on Agriculture in Latin America written by Víctor Jorge Elías and published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst. This book was released on 1981 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Extract: The main effort of this research was directed toward assembling as long and as complete a set of data as possible for government expenditures on agriculture in nine Latin American countries: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Costa Rica, Colombia, Mexico, Peru, and Venezuela. It covers the period 1950-78 on an annual basis. An effort was made to include estimates for many kinds of expenditures, such as research and extension, irrigation, marketing, transport, health, education, administration, agrarian reform, and so forth. The purpose is to identify government expenditure policies for the agricultural sector; to measure their importance in relation to the total government budget and agricultural output; to analyze their trend and variability throughout the time period and from country to country; and to begin to study their effects on agricultural production.

Book Measuring the Real Size of the World Economy

Download or read book Measuring the Real Size of the World Economy written by World Bank and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2013-04-25 with total page 697 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume provides a comprehensive review of the statistical theory and methods underlying the estimation of purchasing power parities (PPPs) and real expenditures, the choices made for the 2005 International Comparison Program (ICP) round, and the lessons learned that led to improvements in the 2011 ICP.

Book Eurostat OECD Methodological Manual on Purchasing Power Parities  2012 Edition

Download or read book Eurostat OECD Methodological Manual on Purchasing Power Parities 2012 Edition written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2012-11-30 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This manual gives a complete, detailed and up-to-date description of the Eurostat-OECD PPP Programme, including its organisation, the various surveys carried out by participating countries and the ways PPPs are calculated and disseminated. It also provides guidance on the use of PPPs.

Book World Comparisons of Purchasing Power and Real Product for 1980

Download or read book World Comparisons of Purchasing Power and Real Product for 1980 written by United Nations and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Measuring Cuban Economic Performance

Download or read book Measuring Cuban Economic Performance written by Jorge Perez-Lopez and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2014-11-11 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Analysts attempting to assess economic growth in revolutionary Cuba are faced with two formidable obstacles: (1) official macroeconomic indicators published by the government are scarce and sometimes inconsistent because of frequent changes in the method of calculation; and (2) these indicators are not compatible with those produced by market economies because of differences in national income concepts. Because of these obstacles, it is difficult to analyze the performance of Cuba’s economy over time and to compare its economic performance directly with that of other nations. Using a variant of the method developed by Abram Bergson to estimate the growth rates of the Soviet Union and subsequently applied to centrally planned economies in Eastern Europe, Jorge Perez-López has estimated the growth rate of the Cuban economy in real terms for the 1965–1982 period. His estimated indexes suggest that the Cuban economy expanded at a considerably slower pace than would be implied by official data. By constructing yardsticks of economic performance for revolutionary Cuba that are compatible with those used by Western nations, Perez-López provides for the first time a basis for analyzing the real growth of the Cuban economy during the revolutionary period.