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

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.

So, how about the purchasing?

It's based on purchasing power parity.

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.

And Purchasing for Progress today is in 21 countries.

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.

China is now the world s largest economy (in terms of purchasing power parity), and it has long been the main contributor to global growth. But China s remarkable success has bred its own problems, which should be addressed sooner rather than later.

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According to IMF figures, Greece s never ending crisis has cut per capita GDP (in terms of purchasing power parity) by 10 since 2010, and by 18 since 2007. Indeed, Greece may have dropped out of the high income category in recent years.

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

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

The support of cotton purchasing price will be conducive to future promotion.

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.

The obstacles preventing Cuba's skeet team from purchasing Beretta rifles made in Italy

(2) expenses on purchasing commercial insurances, securities, stock equities or collections and so on

Selling or purchasing a person in order to engage him in prostitution or serving as a middleman in the selling or purchasing of a person for this purpose is punishable by a term of imprisonment of 16 years for the purposes of this section, selling or purchasing includes consideration in the form of money, value, services or any other interests.

Several Central European countries have achieved per capita GDP levels (measured in terms of purchasing power parity) that place them on the lower rungs of the eurozone s income ladder. Standards of living in the region have improved dramatically even if full convergence with Western Europe is far from achieved.

Recognizing that some frictional poverty will inevitably persist over the next two decades, the World Bank s formal target is to reduce the percentage of people living below the poverty line defined as daily consumption of less than 1.25 (in purchasing power parity terms) per person to less than 3 .

(4) expenses on purchasing residential house or paying realty management fees and so on and

As an example, the case of an organization purchasing a new system can be considered.

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).

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

Employing many of the same development strategies including export oriented policies and a conglomerate dominated industrial system South Korea has been catching up with Japan for four decades. Its per capita income (in terms of purchasing power parity), just one fifth of Japan s in 1970, amounts to almost 95 of Japan s today.

Despite their shortcomings, income measures are useful in gaining a better understanding of the extent of poverty and vulnerability worldwide. But the World Bank s poverty line of 1.25 per day (in purchasing power parity terms), which is used in measuring progress toward the MDGs poverty reduction target, is not the only relevant threshold.

The purchasing companies (Telefónica Argentina and France Telecom S.A.) filed motions to disengage themselves from the proceedings.

CRiSPS Centre for Research in Strategic Purchasing and Supply (of the University of Bath School of Management)

UNICEF procurement services and expertise in international commodity purchasing and supply will increasingly enhance its country programme support.

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

The impossibility of purchasing high quality Eley bullets from England the ammunition needed to obtain highly effective results.

Admittedly, some of the major currency s movements during the past year can be regarded as normalizing. On a purchasing power basis (a crude measure of what different currencies can buy in terms of real goods), the euro was absurdly overvalued at 1.60, just as the yen was absurdly undervalued at over 120 to the dollar.

Though reliable data are hard to come by, its GDP (in purchasing power parity terms) was comparable to that of Haiti, Honduras, and Egypt, and some 5 below that of Ghana. Today, Malaysia s income is 7.8 times that of Ghana, more than five times that of Honduras, and more than 2.5 times that of Egypt.

I'm in awe of their power in terms of imagination, in terms of technology, in terms of concept.

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.

The training will lead to certification that will set minimum standards for purchasing specialists in the United Nations system.

The OECD estimates that the global middle class (defined as households with daily expenditures of 10 100 per person, in 2005 purchasing power parity terms) will swell to 4.9 billion people by 2030, from 1.8 billion in 2009. Two thirds are expected to reside in Asia, up from 28 in 2009, with China home to the largest share.

More importantly, according to the UN and the World Bank, the social impact of the global economic crisis continues to be felt in terms of rising hunger, unemployment, and social unrest. The combination of rising food and fuel prices and the financial and economic crisis has reduced poor families purchasing power, access to social services, and employment opportunities.

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.

Government purchasing agents may not recognize suspicious bidding activity, and procedures that they use may lack safeguards against bid rigging.

Tourism cannot truly become more sustainable unless consumers (tourists) consistently favour more sustainable destinations and activities in their purchasing decisions.

They have needs which have to be met efficiently in terms of energy, in terms of cost, in terms of quality.

Or again, we can monitor purchasing behavior in people and watch how these types of phenomena can diffuse within human populations.