International comparisons of real product and purchasing power : United Nations international comparison project, phase II
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Published: 1975
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Published: 1986
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: United Nations International Comparison Project
Publisher: New York : United Nations : EUROSTAT
Published: 1986
Total Pages: 20
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Irving B. Kravis
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 1978
Total Pages: 288
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 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.
Author: World Bank
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Published: 1975
Total Pages: 200
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Published: 1975
Total Pages: 8
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Irving B. Kravis
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 1982
Total Pages: 410
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Irving B. Kravis
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 1975
Total Pages: 320
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKInternational comparisons of production, consumption, and investment are indispensable for the analysis of economic and social development. As a result of work over the past two decades by national statistical offices, the United Nations and other international organizations, data on national income and expenditure are becoming more and more comparable from the standpoint of statistical methodology. However, even where standard methodology has been adopted to produce national estimates of these aggregates, a major limitation to comparability has been the inadequacy of official exchange rates for purposes of converting estimates in national currencies to a common basis of valuation. Thus, at the end of the 1960's no adequate basis existed for comparisons on a world-wide scale. The long-term aim of the work begun by the United Nations International Comparison Project in 1968 was to fill this important gap in international statistics by developing detailed intercountry comparisons for gross domestic product and the purchasing power of currencies. The results of the first stage of this effort are presented in this report. An extension of the project to cover additional countries is under way.
Author: United Nations. Statistical Office
Publisher: New York : United Nations
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 142
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKDescribes the International Comparison Programme which intends to produce estimates, comparable in real terms, for the gross domestic product. Provides guidance for those working in national statistical offices on the Programme.