practical problems of implementing it. All of these data are underpinned by the International Comparison Program (ICP), which … important areas: how to handle international differences in quality, the treatment of urban and rural areas of large countries … such as China, India, and Brazil, how to estimate prices for government services, health, and education, and the effects of …

International comparisons of the level of labor or total factor productivity have used exchange rates or purchasing … rather well in the long run, making it a good basis for comparison. At the same time, sectoral deviations from PPP are very … and adjusting for taxes and international trade, I obtain a sector-specific PPP measure. The few previous studies that …

The traditional approach to poverty measurement puts no explicit weight on success at increasing the typical level of … available surveys for the developing world over 1981-2011, the expected value of the floor is about half the $1.25 a day poverty …

International surveys reveal wide differences between the views held in different countries concerning the causes of … wealth or poverty and the extent to which people are responsible for their own fate. At the same time, social ethnographies … this phenomenon for international differences in political ideology, levels of redistribution, labor supply, aggregate …

alone, we document that social isolation, poverty, and health challenges are three of the leading correlates of depression …

index number formula. The great variation in relative prices and quantities in the international context means that the …

concludes with four lessons of history and an agenda for international economists, including more attention to the impact of … globalization on commodity price structure, the causes of protection, the impact of world migration on poverty eradication, and the …