This note uses transaction level customs data for Chile and Colombia to provide insights into food price transmission from global markets to import prices. This is a non-trivial relationship with significant...
High-frequency monitoring of food commodity prices is important for assessing and responding to shocks, especially in fragile contexts where timely and targeted interventions for food security are critical...
Household Consumption and Expenditure Surveys are key to consumption-based monetary poverty measurement. In the absence of market price surveys that are linked to Household Consumption and Expenditure...
The average operating capacity of all firms remained stable at 59 percent. The Kyat depreciation against US dollar remained an operational concern for 75 percent of firms. Prices continued to rise, with...
Measuring and comparing the levels of household welfare and poverty in a country require cost-of-living differences across regions to be properly adjusted. In measuring the spatial cost of living, the...
The paper revisits the issue of poverty-specific purchasing power parities (PPPs), using the most recent (2011) International Comparison Program (ICP) results. The World Bank's global poverty count uses...
Some of the headings included in this issue of the International Comparison Program (ICP) Quarterly Update working paper are as follows : The future of price statistics; outcomes from the 47th session...
Remittance Prices Worldwide (RPW) monitors remittance prices across all geographic regions of the world. Launched in September 2008, RPW remains a key tool to monitor the cost incurred by remitters when...
The International Comparison Program (ICP) is a large and highly complex worldwide statistical program conducted under the charter of the United Nations Statistical Commission (UNSC). The ICP is designed...
The International Comparison Program (ICP) Global Office welcomes the opportunity to present the Statistical Commission and heads of National Statistical Offices a status report providing updated information...
This International Comparison Program (ICP) newsletter includes the following heading: special interview six; and full interview.