Purchasing Power Parities and Real Expenditures of World Economics : A Comprehensive Report of the 2011 International Comparison Program

World Bank

Washington, DC

关键词: ACTION PLAN;    BASKET OF GOODS;    BENCHMARK;    BENCHMARKS;    CAPACITY BUILDING;   

DOI  :  10.1596/978-1-4648-0329-1
RP-ID  :  92494

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: World Bank Open Knowledge Repository

【 摘 要 】

The International Comparison Program(ICP) is a large and highly complex worldwide statisticalprogram conducted under the charter of the United NationsStatistical Commission (UNSC). The ICP is designed toprovide globally comparable economic aggregates in nationalaccounts that can be used by individual researchers,analysts, and policy makers at the national andinternational levels and by international organizations suchas the European Union, International Monetary Fund,Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development(OECD), United Nations, and World Bank. Over its lifetime,the ICP has become the principal source of data on thepurchasing power parities (PPPs) of currencies, measures ofreal per capita income, and measures of real gross domesticproduct (GDP) and its main components from the expenditureside, including private consumption, governmentexpenditures, and gross fixed capital formation. Indeed,since its inception in 1970, successive rounds of the ICPhave produced valuable data for international economicanalyses of economic growth and the catch-up and convergenceof incomes among nations; productivity levels and trends;analyses of systematic patterns in national price levels andtrends; construction of the Human Development Index by theUnited Nations; measures of regional and global inequalityin incomes and consumption; and estimates of the incidenceof absolute poverty using World Bank developed yardstickssuch as the US$1 a day and $2 a day poverty lines.