The International Comparison Program (ICP) has become not only the largest international statistical program in the world, but also the most complex. In the years leading up to 2005, six rounds of the...
The International Comparison Program (ICP) has become not only the largest international statistical program in the world, but also the most complex. In the years leading up to 2005, six rounds of the...
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. If productivity adjustments...
The quantity method for estimating purchasing power parities (PPPs) for dwelling services starts by calculating quantity relatives based on total living space of dwellings or, if not available, total number...
The purpose of this note is to help decide how the international comparison program (ICP) 2005 guidelines on housing should be revised for ICP 2011. There are two separate issues with regard to housing...
The standard procedure used in ICP 2005 for estimating PPPs for machinery and equipment involved collecting prices for about 100 core products that had been selected by the Global Office and had been specified...
The purpose of this note is to help decide how the ICP 2005 guidelines on housing should be revised for ICP 2011. There are two separate issues with regard to housing: how should the expenditure weights...
The standard procedure used in ICP 2005 for estimating PPPs for machinery and equipment involved collecting prices for about 100 core products that had been selected by the Global Office and had been specified...
The purpose of this note is to help decide how the ICP 2005 guidelines on housing should be revised for ICP 2011. There are two separate issues with regard to housing: how should the expenditure weights...
Included in this issue: Interview with the President of Islamic Development Bank (IDB). International and regional inflation. An output method for education purchasing power parties (PPPs). Dikhanov tables...