Preservation of purchasing power

It's based on purchasing power parity.

Source UNDP, Human Development Report 1995. a Purchasing power parity.

The added surcharges have reduced even further Cuba s purchasing power.

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

) and the aggregation of purchasing power (does the auction or marketplace facilitate joint purchasing or joint selling by participants in an auction?

These increases have resulted in a growth in employees apos purchasing power.

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.

A particular drop occurred in wages and salaries which lost much of their purchasing power.

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

Poverty has been conventionally viewed as the lack of income or purchasing power to secure basic needs.

But larger companies also have a larger ability to become a force for good, both locally and globally. If a company the size of US retailer Walmart decides that it will not allow wasteful packaging, its purchasing power will lead to changes in packaging for the entire retail sector.

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

Imports are increasing in the former Soviet Union as well, although this is constrained by low purchasing power.

8. Djibouti has a dual economy characterized by an important informal sector serving a population with low purchasing power, and by a modern economy, based on its port and airport infrastructure, serving a population with high purchasing power which depends almost entirely on imports.

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.

55. However, it was unreasonable to use purchasing power parity for measuring the gross domestic product in international comparisons.

48. In that connection, the Committee recalled the reservations of members about the use of purchasing power parity conversion rates for the purposes of the scale, on both conceptual and practical grounds, and noted continuing problems with the availability and comparability of purchasing power parity rates.

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

228. It seems that the prices of essential food items have gone up faster than the purchasing power of families.

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.

GDP purchasing power parity in 2003 was around 2.33 billion, GDP real growth rate was approximately 2 per cent and per capita purchasing power parity was 36,000, one of the highest in the world.6 At the same time, Bermuda's high cost of living relegates it to ninth place on the list of countries with the highest purchasing power.7 In September 2004, Bermuda's inflation rate rose to 3.9 per cent, representing the highest inflation level in 14 years.

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

Although the UBN figure has fallen, it cannot be denied that the purchasing power of workers apos incomes has also fallen.

The decline in the purchasing power of wages has been a main feature of economic life in the past three years.

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5. Djibouti has a dual economy that is characterized by an important informal sector directed towards customers with a low purchasing power, and secondly, by a modern economy, based on a solid port and airport infrastructure, serving a population with high purchasing power but one that depends almost entirely on imports.

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.

A different weighting scheme, using estimated purchasing power parity (PPP) exchange rate gives a different indicator of world growth (see table 1).

Continued softness in recent data from purchasing managers sentiment and industrial output to retail sales and exports has heightened the anxiety. Long the global economy s most powerful engine, China, many now fear, is running out of fuel.

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With 15 million retail outlets, India has the highest retail outlet density in the world.

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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

The majority of Member States did not recognize the concept of purchasing power parity and its use should be avoided in UNDP publications.