This report is a product of the seventh meeting of the 2011 ICP Technical Advisory Group (TAG) that was held from September 17 to 18, 2012 at the World Bank in Washington, DC. TAG discussions have often...
This report focuses on the following topics: improving comparability of international comparison program (ICP) when basic heading (BH) treatments differ across regions; implications of the April, 2011...
This note follows on my presentation at the Paris meeting. It is clear that in the 2011 ICP different methods will be used in different regions to handle some fairly significant expenditure headings. For...
In previous tag discussions it was agreed that the 2011 ICP should experiment with a direct student quantity approach and indirect PPP derivation for all education expenditures along the lines of the EU-OECD...
This note follows on my presentation at the Paris meeting. It is clear that in the 2011 ICP different methods will be used in different regions to handle some fairly significant expenditure headings. For...
The equipment comparisons for 2005 involved developing a set of specifications building on the EU-OECD experience and the expertise of consultants to the Global Office (GO) and the Regions. Originally...
Household dwelling service expenditures consist of market rented housing and imputations for non-market rents and owner occupied housing. Estimation of these expenditures is treated in Chapter 3 on the...
For most basic headings in the comparison, it is possible to derive the PPP based on the prices of items for the basic heading. This is the direct price approach. When countries have regular rental surveys...
Included in this issue: In praise of purchasing power parties (PPP) comparisons. Remarks of International Comparison Program (ICP) anniversary Interviews Alan Hestoland Robert summers. What have we learnt...
Included in this issue: In praise of purchasing power parties (PPP) comparisons. Remarks of International Comparison Program (ICP) anniversary Interviews Alan Hestoland Robert summers. What have we learnt...
Included in this issue: In praise of purchasing power parties (PPP) comparisons. Remarks of International Comparison Program (ICP) anniversary Interviews Alan Hestoland Robert summers. What have we learnt...
En este número: Elogio de la comparación de la paridad de poder adquisitivo (PPA). Reflexiones con ocasión del aniversario del Programa de Comparación Internacional (PCI). Entrevista a Alan Heston y Robert...
From its inception, the Penn World Tables (PWT), building on the International Comparisons Program (ICP) of the United Nations, has sought to compare the standard of living of individuals in different...
The volume reports on the third phase of the United Nations International Comparison Project (ICP). The main results provide comparisons of real gross domestic product (GDP) per capita for thirty-four...
The purpose of the United Nations International Comparison Project (ICP) is to compare the purchasing power of currencies and the real gross domestic product (GDP) per capita of different countries. It...
The results of the International Comparison Project are published in successive phase one (1975), phase two (1978), and phase three (tentatively 1980) reports. The study has been carried out as a cooperative...
International comparisons of production, consumption, and investment are indispensable for the analysis of economic and social development. As a result of work over the past two decades by national statistical...