Despite Malaysia's low and stable inflation rate, there has been an ongoing debate regarding perceived increases in the …. More recently, there has been a robust public debate about whether Malaysia should raise the nationally defined poverty …

geographic areas and over time. To this end, data on consumer prices are used to construct a price index. There are a range of … approaches to do this, from using the consumer price index, to survey-based unit values, which differ in the underlying sources … of price data and methodologies for indexing. These different approaches can have large impacts on poverty measures and …

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. This paper compares the price levels of … cities in Sub-Saharan Africa with those of other regions by analyzing price information collected for the 2011 round of the …

International poverty estimates for countries in Africa commonly rely on national consumer price indexes to adjust … trends in nominal consumption over time for changes in the cost of living. However, the consumer price index is subject to … various types of measurement bias. This paper uses Engel curve estimations to assess bias in the consumer price index and its …

importance of detailed product quality information in the price data. Taking advantage of the price data availability in Ghana …, this case study explores the Consumer Price Index price data as a source for spatial price measurement. It applies the … country product dummy method to the Consumer Price Index price data and compares the results with other methods based on …