Consumer price indices are central to monitoring, guiding, and defining a country's economic development path. By capturing how prices change over time, consumer price indices provide a measure of the evolution of the cost of living for households. The impact of price indices on the economy is very broad, affecting everything from the adjustment of pensions to the monetary policy of the Central Bank, from cash transfer programs to private sector contracts...
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The Value of Data : An Estimate of the Cost of (Not) Updating Brazil’s Consumer Price Index
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Campante Cardoso Vale,Ricardo; Canozzi Conceicao,Otavio; Lara Ibarra,Gabriel.
The Value of Data : An Estimate of the Cost of (Not) Updating Brazil’s Consumer Price Index (English). Poverty and Equity Notes Washington, D.C. : World Bank Group. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/099091323185031797