The Middle Eastern uprisings have pushed oil prices higher, eating up consumer purchasing power while raising input prices for many producers.

Creating and satisfying new consumer desires keeps the system going by absorbing the labor and purchasing power released by the increasingly efficient satisfaction of old ones.

By focusing on job creation, wage increases, and the social safety net, the 12th Five Year Plan could spark a major increase in discretionary consumer purchasing power.

As long as urbanization is coupled with job creation a strategy underscored by China s concomitant push into services led development labor income and consumer purchasing power will benefit.

By focusing on job creation in services, massive urbanization, and the broadening of its social safety net, there will be a big boost to labor income and consumer purchasing power.

As declining consumer confidence and household purchasing power deepen the recession, projections of when the crisis will end are repeatedly pushed back, and those bearing the brunt of austerity are losing hope.

That can t happen without increased wages and purchasing power for workers.

Moreover, falling commodity prices will also help increase household purchasing power.

The lower dollar also reduces the purchasing power of oil exporters.

To these factors the speaker added the people's low purchasing power.

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

Lownet Inc. would lure each consumer into purchasing an introductory videotape for 60 and advertise a 30 day full money back guarantee.

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

Thus, in principle, the purchasing power for the extra output would be available.

A 20 dollar depreciation would therefore reduce Americans purchasing power by only 3 .

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.

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.

Will gold maintain its purchasing power value if inflation erodes the purchasing power of the dollar or the euro? And will gold hold its value in euros or yen if the dollar continues to decline?

Chile currently has a per capita GDP of 15,000, after adjusting for purchasing power.

Demographics are amongst the most significant trends in the United States, for example, the growing and relatively younger Hispanic community is increasing, and its purchasing power is expected to reach 60 per cent of the Chinese consumer market in 2015.

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

Fluctuations in exchange markets result in gains and losses in the purchasing power of reserves.

Real values are a measure of purchasing power net of any price changes over time.

The sight of run down physical infrastructure, punctuated by super modern shopping malls with global consumer brand names well beyond the purchasing power of most citizens, is not what you would expect in an economy once described as a potential Asian Dragon.

This is eroding the external surplus, weakening domestic purchasing power, and causing investments to be postponed.

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

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

Urbanization is a building block for consumption, because it provides powerful leverage to Chinese households purchasing power.

On the one hand, there are more mouths to feed, and with greater purchasing power on average.

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

Public pessimism in southern Europe is largely attributable to the absence of such a reward. As declining consumer confidence and household purchasing power deepen the recession, projections of when the crisis will end are repeatedly pushed back, and those bearing the brunt of austerity are losing hope.

As legions of new consumers gain purchasing power, demand inevitably rises, driving up the price of scarce commodities.

To strengthen purchasing power and to stimulate consumption, tax cuts on low and medium income households are essential.

The economist Menzie Chinn, using purchasing power parity (PPP) exchange rates, reckoned the renminbi s undervaluation to be 40 .

In fact, Brazilians purchasing power could shrink further, owing to the depreciation of the real against the dollar.

The basic idea is that, when comparing incomes across countries, variations in purchasing power should be taken into account.

As of 2008 average purchasing power adjusted income levels are similar to those of Italy, Sweden, Germany and France.

All have reviewed preliminary data and calculated purchasing power parities (PPPs) at the basic heading level for analysis purposes.

The continued high prices of food could strain the already low purchasing power of the chronically food insecure population.

And, when measured in terms of purchasing power parity, China s GDP will reach that of the US around 2015, thus changing the world s balance of economic power.

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

The purchasing power of national income per person in Nigeria is now 50 lower relative to Britain than in 1980.

It must ensure that enhanced purchasing power leads to a markedly improved quality of life for all of India s citizens.

Presumably as a result, the dollar has lost value relative to other major currencies or in terms of purchasing power.

A strong dollar at home means a dollar that retains its purchasing power, thanks to a low rate of inflation.