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The size of the Asia and the Pacific economy based on purchasing power parities: results from the International Comparison Program
New results from the ICP including purchasing power parities (PPP), price level indexes and PPP-based expenditures for reference year 2017 are now available at icp.worldbank.org. This blog series, edited by Edie Purdie, covers all aspects of the ICP and explores the use made of these data by researchers, policymakers, economists, data scientists and others. We encourage users to share their data applications and findings in this blog series via [email protected].
Since the publication of the 2017 International Comparison Program’s (ICP) global results for 176 economies in May 2020, the program’s regional implementing agencies have released results and analyses covering the economies participating in their respective regions. These regional programs are the building blocks of the global program, and in this series of region-focused blogs, we hig
Demystifying ICP Purchasing Power Parity calculations using Python
New results from the ICP including purchasing power parities (PPP), price level indexes and PPP-based expenditures for reference year 2017 are now available at icp.worldbank.org. This blog series, edited by Edie Purdie, covers all aspects of the ICP and explores the use made of these data by researchers, policymakers, economists, data scientists and others. We encourage users to share their data applications and findings in this blog series via [email protected].
Every few years, results from the International Comparison Program (ICP) make headlines around the world as they shed new light on the size and structure of the global economy. Underlying these results are purchasing power parities (PPPs) for countries across the globe. PPPs are exchange rates or conversion factors that enable us to convert one currency into the other while also and this part is key adjusting for the fact that prices of the same go