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

The rate of progress towards parity had been too slow.

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

At this rate, gender parity in national legislatures will not be achieved until 2068.

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.

Instead, our limit the swings strategy implies that, as the exchange rate moves further away from parity, central banks should intervene.

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

But China s abandonment of the yuan s traditional parity in July 2005 rules out a new, credibly fixed exchange rate strategy for some time.

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

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.

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.

A similar parity characterized the Bush Putin era.

e) Achieving parity with the Host Authority standards

Target 3 Learning outcomes and gender parity in achievement

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).

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.

Of course, persistent swings from parity do not last forever.

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

Their inflation was lower, and they oriented their policies toward maintaining a competitive exchange rate through the adoption of a so called crawling band, whereby the currency is allowed to fluctuate within a band around a central parity.

Relating the riskiness of holding an open position in a currency market to the exchange rate s divergence from parity levels suggests a novel way to think about how central banks can influence the market to limit departures from parity. Although the exchange rate ultimately reverts back to its PPP benchmark, in a world of imperfect knowledge market participants might ignore this possibility in the near term.

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

The new data are based on improved estimates of purchasing power parity (PPP).

But the naira s introduction quickly put an end to parity with the British pound.

In the twentieth century, the Cold War parity between Russia and America was apparent.

However, in the 1990s this ratio reached parity, and now it has been reversed.

Thus, normal re equilibration to purchasing power parity should give the dollar slight upward momentum.

Behavioral economists, by contrast, acknowledge that currencies can depart from parity for a long period.

By the 1970s, its industrial production was near parity with that of the Czech lands.

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.

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

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.

At that price, the dollar was undervalued by roughly 10 relative to its purchasing power parity (PPP).

Although gender parity in primary education has improved, dropout rates for girls are higher than for boys.

Thus, the US Senate s recent approval of the Mental Health Parity Act is a significant step forward.

Purchasing power parity measures a country s income using a set of international prices applied to all economies.

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

14.12 As indicated in Article 10, parity in primary school has been attained over the past decade.

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

Encourages the Secretary General to achieve parity in the six official languages in United Nations Radio production