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Integration of Consumer Price Indices and the International Comparison Program for the Asia and Pacific Region: How can They be Achieved?

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  • Ward, Michael

    (Asian Development Bank)

  • Palanyandy, Chellam

    (Asian Development Bank)

  • Capilit, Eileen

    (Asian Development Bank)

Abstract
The International Comparison Program (ICP) was established as a system for performing cross-country comparisons. Gross domestic product (GDP) and its components are converted into a single currency using purchasing power parities (PPP) thereby eliminating the shortcomings from using market exchange rates for establishing comparable levels of GDP across countries and estimating poverty based on internationally comparable poverty lines. The 2005 ICP for Asia and the Pacific has been hailed as a milestone in statistics with the participation of 23 economies in the Asia and Pacific region and the simultaneous participation of the People’s Republic of China and India, but concerns confronting past ICP activities still remain. This paper attempts to provide alternative ways to improve the operational aspects of ICP price collection on which to base future ICP data operations, and to do so without countries having to incur significant increases in regular budget outlays. Hence the integration of consumer price index and ICP work is confined only to the household consumption aggregate of national accounts. Further, it explores how a more refined approach that modifies and expands existing procedures for price collection can be implemented, and how the ICP approaches can be integrated and sustained by countries even for nonbenchmark years.

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  • Ward, Michael & Palanyandy, Chellam & Capilit, Eileen, 2008. "Integration of Consumer Price Indices and the International Comparison Program for the Asia and Pacific Region: How can They be Achieved?," ADB Economics Working Paper Series 143, Asian Development Bank.
    • Handle: RePEc:ris:adbewp:0143
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    1. Robert J. Hill & T. Peter Hill, 2007. "Regionalization and its Implications for Price Index Construction: The Case of the International Comparisons Program," Discussion Papers 2007-28, School of Economics, The University of New South Wales.
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      Keywords

      consumer price index; gross domestic product; purchasing power parities; statistics; world comparisons;
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      JEL classification:

      • C82 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Data Collection and Data Estimation Methodology; Computer Programs - - - Methodology for Collecting, Estimating, and Organizing Macroeconomic Data; Data Access
      • E01 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - General - - - Measurement and Data on National Income and Product Accounts and Wealth; Environmental Accounts
      • F43 - International Economics - - Macroeconomic Aspects of International Trade and Finance - - - Economic Growth of Open Economies

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