It's based on purchasing power parity.

Moreover, trade boosts productivity, which is why exporters pay higher wages than other companies, on average an estimated 18 higher in the case of US manufacturing. And the purchasing power of income is enhanced by households opportunity to consume lower priced imported goods.

They are, however, using the module for purchasing power parity calculations.

Sarkozy, who during his electoral campaign vowed to be the president who delivers on purchasing power, now faces an angry French public whose primary complaint is that purchasing power is being eroded by inflation.

Urbanization is a building block for consumption, because it provides powerful leverage to Chinese households purchasing power. Urban workers per capita income is more than three times higher than that of their counterparts in the countryside.

The purchasing power of the population is steadily deteriorating, resulting in successive strikes by civil servants.

As long as China s economy does grow, its military power will likely increase, thus making China appear more dangerous to its neighbors and complicating America s commitments in Asia. A RAND study projects that by 2015, China s military expenditure will be more than six times higher than Japan s, and its accumulated military capital stock will be roughly five times higher (measured at purchasing power parity).

Its per capita GDP exceeds 22,000 in purchasing power parity terms, making its income higher than that of Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico. It s no surprise that Chile is considered a developed country the only South American member of the OECD.

An attempt to open a shop has failed due to the very low purchasing power of local residents.

So if the telephone is a production tool, then we don't quite have to worry about the purchasing power.

The Pacific island countries have been collecting data that will enable them to compute purchasing power parities for consumption.

The continued high prices of food could strain the already low purchasing power of the chronically food insecure population.

In this regard, another important development is the increasing number of emerging market middle class consumers, their growing purchasing power, and thus their potential impact on global demand. According to one estimate, middle class consumers in a dozen emerging economies today wield annual purchasing power totaling approximately 6.9 trillion.

Is it the economy? Well, we have now the fifth largest economy in the world in purchasing power parity terms.

This strengthens purchasing power and ultimately private consumption. The ECB has fulfilled its mandate for the present and the foreseeable future.

There are smart ways to buy them and to aggregate that purchasing power to bring very efficient vehicles into the market faster.

The scale methodology should be sufficiently flexible to accommodate future economic trends, thereby reflecting Member States' purchasing power at any given moment.

Four regions have held at least two data review workshops with participating countries to examine purchasing power parities at the basic heading level.

b. Increasing the UMR (regional minimum wage) which had also succeeded in improving the purchasing power of workers and strengthening the domestic market

But Japan would close the 30 gap (adjusted for purchasing power parity) between its per capita GDP and that of the US. The prevailing belief was that, by 2015 or so, Japan s per capita GDP would more likely than not be 10 higher than in the US (in PPP terms).

On the consumption side, recent adjustment measures have increased wages of miners and soldiers more than other workers, leading to differences in purchasing power.

Even though our economy is still small, we are adopting policies and plans to expand our production, increase employment, improve domestic purchasing power and increase exports.

At present, countries are committed to data reflecting their purchasing power parities and per capita indices being published at the same level of detail within the region.

So, how about the purchasing?

Most Parties that reported belonged to the low income group, with GDP per capita in some cases less than USD 500 (in 1995 prices adjusted for purchasing power parity).

Protectionism threatens open markets and GDP growth. And price volatility, whether triggered by drought or short sighted national policies, could deter investments in agriculture and decrease the poor s purchasing power.

Indeed, the last meeting of the International Monetary Fund which recognized China as the world s largest economy by purchasing power parity concluded without increasing China s share of votes. To put this in perspective, China was left with a slightly higher proportion of votes than Italy, whose economy is one fifth the size, and just one quarter of America s vote share.

In addition, since the gravity of the Mars is only 38 of that of the earth and much higher than that of the Moon surface, so the probe requires higher power.

Not until the great Powers are able to establish a higher cause of peace and common prosperity in the global order will the tension between power and higher cause be defused.

Today, they are comparable with American income disparities. Income disparities have halved both in nominal terms when expressed in euros and in real terms when taking into account differences in purchasing power.

Significant progress has been made, with all regions fully engaged in data collection. All have reviewed preliminary data and calculated purchasing power parities (PPPs) at the basic heading level for analysis purposes.

As developed countries were plunged into debt crises, with shrinking asset values and declining exchange rates, China s international purchasing power grew. This, together with Wen s stimulus, bolstered China s investment and financing capabilities considerably.

Provision of low interest loans and subsidized fertilizer to sustain farmers purchasing power, which succeeded in increasing the real income of farmers, men and women, who made up the majority of the population

China s foreign exchange reserves, indeed, are facing a triple whammy a decline in the US dollar s purchasing power, a fall in the prices of US government securities, and possible inflation in the longer run.

Moreover, the US Federal Reserve is targeting a 4 annual inflation rate. This alone means that under normal circumstances the purchasing power of China s foreign exchange reserves will automatically depreciate by 4 each year.

And Purchasing for Progress today is in 21 countries.

This reduction became necessary in order to reflect the loss of purchasing power of the support cost income earned in United States dollars, due to the unfavourable euro dollar rate of exchange experienced during 2004.

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1. Notes the increasing number of duty stations where the post adjustment classification is equal or close to zero, and requests the Commission to review the methodology to ensure that purchasing power equivalence is appropriately reflected

Trying to rescue the financial sector without supporting a recovery in terms of businesses, jobs, and family purchasing power will not work. What is needed is a large worldwide fiscal stimulus to counteract falling private demand.

The renminbi's real value rose from 2006 to 2013. The most recent purchasing power statistics show the currency to be in a range that is normal for a country with per capita real income of around 10,000.

Fourth, the cost of purchasing raw materials for enterprises has increased.

Its importance is not only for the reason that it is important for corporate profitability and consumer purchasing power, but also because wage jumps may cause overall inflation, which may upset the officials of the Federal Reserve Board.

Attempts to convert national incomes into a common denominator are fraught with complications. To take one prominent example, there is a 25 margin of error on purchasing power parity comparisons between GDP in the United States and China.

Several Chinese policies have led to a massive transfer of income from politically weak households to politically powerful companies. A weak currency reduces household purchasing power by making imports expensive, thereby protecting import competing SOEs and boosting exporters profits.