Guatemala is therefore close to achieving gender parity in access to primary education (parity rate of 0.95 in 2004).

In specialized education, the parity rate was inverted in favour of girls.

Since the implementation of the new exchange reform, the previous appreciation state of RMB was changed. The central parity rate of RMB exchange rate in one year was about 8 .

On January 5, the central parity rate of the RMB was 6.4915 to the USD, breaking through the 6.5 threshold again.

By 2003, the figures for both groups had risen by almost 10 per cent , and the girl boy parity rate was 0.92.

Evidence from the country's three most deprived regions shows that the enrolment rate of girls is increasing at a faster rate than that of boys, suggesting that progress is being made towards the achievement of gender parity in education.

Gender parity in primary and secondary education should be on track for full parity by 2009.

When it comes to currency markets, parity levels based on international trade are merely one of many factors that traders may consider. In attempting to cope with imperfect knowledge, they are not irrational when they pay attention to other macroeconomic fundamentals and thereby bid an exchange rate away from its parity level.

We removed school fees for primary education, and the net enrolment rate increased from 58.8 per cent in 2000 to 90.5 per cent last year and gender parity has been attained.

It's based on purchasing power parity.

From now on, China s government declared, the renminbi s central parity rate will align more closely with the previous day s closing spot rates. This suggests that the devaluation was aimed primarily at giving the markets a greater role in determining the renminbi exchange rate, with the goal of enabling deeper currency reform.

From 1994 to 2003, the girl boy parity rate was greater than 1.0, with net enrolment for girls being slightly higher than for boys in 2003 (with the difference rising from 17.53 to 18.89 per cent).

e) Achieving parity with the Host Authority standards

Target 3 Learning outcomes and gender parity in achievement

Every month, the central bank should announce its estimate of a range of parity values, backed by analysis, which, unlike a precise value, reflects the inherent imperfection of knowledge concerning a currency s parity. As the exchange rate moves away from this range, the central bank s regular announcements would heighten the concern of currency traders that other traders will consider it increasingly risky to hold open positions.

'parity' can be 0,1 or 2 default value is 0

Yes. Or it could also mean that economists baseline model of the international economy especially the assumption of uncovered interest parity, which holds that foreign interest income expressed in the domestic currency should equal the domestic interest rate is simply wrong.

The central banks of South Korea, Brazil, Taiwan, Japan, Switzerland, and many other countries are now buying dollars in order to protect their own currencies against revaluation and thus to defend their exports. Europe also became nervous after the euro exchange rate rose to more than 1.40, far beyond the purchasing power parity (PPP) rate of 1.17.

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

Poverty reduction and sustainable development were not possible without gender parity.

(e) Ensuring the maintenance of full gender parity in UNRWA schools

Expansionary monetary policy the second of three so called arrows of Abenomics, after fiscal stimulus has brought down the unemployment rate to just 3.8 . The ratio of job openings to applicants has exceeded parity, and the GDP deflator narrowed to close to zero.

As open economies, Belgium and the Netherlands have both been interested in developing the internal market, while differing in their methods. Belgium followed the mainly French monetarist school, while the Netherlands shared Germany s preference for economic convergence before committing to exchange rate parity.

Of course, persistent swings from parity do not last forever. While movements in macroeconomic fundamentals may lead bulls to bid the value of a currency further above parity, they simultaneously become more concerned about a counter movement back to parity and thus capital losses which moderates their desire to increase their long positions.

a) Achieve parity of UNRWA services with host authority and international standards

Given the enormous size of daily volumes in currency markets, such attempts almost always fail, leading to currency crises. Instead, the limit the swings strategy proposed here implies that, as the exchange rate moves further away from parity, central banks should use their reserves to intervene at unpredictable moments in order to reinforce the effect of their regular announcements of the parity range on traders perception of increased risk of capital losses.

It's addition modulo 2, just like in the parity bit check on your computer.

Progress For Children Primary Education and Gender Parity Report Card, New York UNICEF, April 2005.

Although language parity must be promoted, existing resource constraints called for a more practical approach.

Of eighty three developing nations for which data are available, only half have achieved gender parity at the primary level, less than one fifth have attained gender parity at the secondary level and only four at the tertiary level.

Gender parity in access to and duration of education has also been achieved at all levels.

Pay and rank reform, including severance packages, will be introduced to achieve parity with ANA salaries.

Most importantly, we have achieved gender parity in enrolment at the primary and lower secondary levels.

Secretary General's video message for Conference on Gender Parity in Education Washington, D.C., 2 March 2005.

Without positive action, it would take 227 years to achieve gender parity in the Turkish Parliament.

Reaffirms the need to achieve full parity among the six official languages on the United Nations website

Greater parity between the two languages would certainly help indigenous children learn and become integrated into society.

BEIJING On August 11, the People s Bank of China (PBOC) lowered the central parity rate of the renminbi by 1.9 , sending shockwaves around the globe. Many foreign commentators condemned the devaluation as a blatant attempt to boost Chinese exports a move that would, they warned, spark a new round of currency wars.

Reaffirming the need to achieve full parity among the six official languages on the United Nations web site,

63. Encourages the Secretary General to achieve parity in the six official languages in United Nations radio production

116. Reaffirms the need to achieve full parity among the six official languages on the United Nations website

Through its leadership of the UNGEI, UNICEF will continue to pursue targets related to gender parity and equality.

As it stands, Chinese exchange rates are allowed to fluctuate by a maximum of 2 on either side of the central parity, which the PBOC fixes daily. When the moving market rate reaches the edges of the fluctuation band, the PBOC can intervene in the market by buying or selling its foreign exchange reserves.

In many situations, a level playing field in terms of gender parity still remains beyond the reach of women.

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