This paper describes the IMF's projections and estimates of St. Vincent and the Grenadines on prices and wages, GDP by … economic activity at current factor cost and by type of expenditure at current prices, petroleum consumption and unit values …

goods. For example, inflation in intermediate goods prices rose from 2.6 percent annually in the first half of 1994 to 7 … less than 3 percent. Many analysts are concerned that recent increases in the prices of crude and intermediate goods may be … expected to move through the production chain, leading to increases in consumer prices. A review of basic economic theory …

This paper reexamines whether producer prices help predict consumer prices, focusing on model stability and the … for a simple form of instability, however, fails to improve the predictive power of producer prices. Even in models using … prices do not help to forecast consumer prices. …

construction and coverage of these measures and touch on some of the issues affecting the measurement of prices for a broad range …

consumers between different goods and retail outlets, and the difficulty of measuring the prices actually paid by consumers for …

A panel study reveals that an increase in pretax income equality leads to sudstantially lower retail prices. Prices …