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Purchasing Power Parities and the Size of World Economies : Results from the 2017 International Comparison Program
World Bank Group (contributor) - World Bank Group - 2020
The International Comparison Program (ICP) is a worldwide statistical initiative led by the World Bank under the … the world's economies. The report provides ICP results for the benchmark year 2017 and revised results for earlier years …-operation and Development, the United Nations, and the World Bank. Notably, PPPs and ICP data are used in indicators monitoring …
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The Effect of New PPP Estimates on Global Poverty : A First Look
Atamanov, Aziz - 2020
This paper provides an initial analysis of the impact on the World Bank's global poverty estimates of the revised 2011 …-Saharan Africa, causing the extreme poverty headcount ratio for the world to rise by 0.3 percentage points to 10.3 percent in 2015 …
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A Global Count of the Extreme Poor in 2012 : Data Issues, Methodology and Initial Results
Ferreira, Francisco H G - 2015
Sustainable Development Goals and the World Bank's twin goals, the new poverty line was chosen so as to preserve the definition …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012245700
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Preferences, Purchasing Power Parity, and Inequality : Analytical Framework, Propositions, and Empirical Evidence
Majumder, Amita - 2015
This paper makes analytical, methodological and empirical contributions to the literature on purchasing power parity. Purchasing power parities are required in a host of cross-country welfare comparisons, such as poverty rates and gross domestic product. The subject has recently generated much...
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Depreciations without Exports? Global Value Chains and the Exchange Rate Elasticity of Exports
Ahmed, Swarnali - 2015
This paper analyzes how the exchange rate elasticity of exports has changed over time and across countries and sectors, and how the formation of global value chains has affected this relationship. The analysis uses a panel framework covering 46 countries over the period 1996-2012, and first...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012245907
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Global Poverty Goals and Prices : How Purchasing Power Parity Matters
Jolliffe, Dean - 2015
previous round of PPP data from 2005 led to a large increase in the estimated number of poor in the world. The 2011 price data … world. This paper presents evidence that if the global poverty line is updated with the 2011 PPP data based on the same set …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012246152
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Kyrgyz Republic : Gold is Not Enough
World Bank - 2012
A new coalition government was formed in September 2012 following the collapse of the previous government at the end of August 2012. The Kyrgyz economy experienced a significant decline during the first half of 2012 caused by disrupted operations at the Kumtor gold mine. A decline in gold...
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How useful is CPI price data for spatial price adjustment in poverty measurement? : a case from Ghana
Chen, Xiaomeng; Mungai, Rose; Nakamura, Shohei; … - 2020
Measuring and comparing the levels of household welfare and poverty in a country require cost-of-living differences across regions to be properly adjusted. In measuring the spatial cost of living, the recent literature underscores the importance of detailed product quality information in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012296929
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Why South Africa is cheap for the rich and expensive for the poor : reconsidering the Balassa-Samuelson effect
Dadam, Vincent; Hanusch, Marek; Viegi, Nicola - 2019
This paper investigates cross-sectoral productivity differentials in South African industry and their distributional consequences. The analysis shows that typically, traded sectors have experienced low productivity growth over the past decade, while skill intensive service sectors have had...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012113686
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Exchange Rate Misalignment and Its Relationship to Output Growth in South Africa
Nguyen, Ha - 2018
This paper establishes a simple theory-based real exchange rate (RER) Misalignment Index for countries around the world …
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