It's based on purchasing power parity.

The main causes for the decrease in the number of visits to the theatre is the low purchasing ability and the high costs of theatre tours.

This system will keep on installing more and more automation cutting down on the purchasing power of the majority of people.

Any change in the exchange rate of the dollar affects the purchasing power of these countries, and therefore their real income.

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

Despite the concrete steps taken in recent years, hunger and malnutrition remained very pressing in Mongolia but, as pointed out in the national report, hunger was not due to an inadequate food supply but rather to the inadequate purchasing power of poor people.

Whereas in the third world, lack of buying power was the cause of malnutrition, in the developed countries, malnutrition was associated with excessive consumption.

The first was the absence of agreement on the concept of debt sustainability.

And one of them is the lacking buying power.

Productivity growth in agriculture can help to reduce the cost of food, which in turn will raise the purchasing power and well being of the poor.

a Poverty line used here based on an annual income per capita of 370 in 1985 purchasing power parity dollars.

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?

Have you spent all the coupons?

It isn't me. I can't afford it.

Better control of inflation in Latin America, except Brazil, reduced the loss of purchasing power in the hands of fixed income earners and those in lower income groups.

The Nobel Prize winning economist Amartya Sen has emphasized that most famines are associated not with a shortage of food, but the failure to get food to the people who need it, largely because they lack purchasing power.

The combination of rising food and fuel prices and the financial and economic crisis has reduced poor families purchasing power, access to social services, and employment opportunities.

Some factors precluding foreign entry may be related to the size of the domestic market, given the low purchasing capacity of people in general, the weak competitive edge of domestic players and the lack of established physical infrastructure.

If the decision is affirmative, the Technical Office will be instructed to prepare a report on price movements and their impact on the purchasing power of minimum wages, also supplying the most significant data on the national economic situation.

An agreement had been reached with the University of Geneva to develop data collection and analysis tools that would increase the Agency's ability to assess and improve its programmes.

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

Provision of low interest loans and subsidized fertilizer to sustain farmers purchasing power, which succeeded in increasing the real income of farmers, men and women, who made up the majority of the population

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

The Council also fixes minimum wages taking into account in particular the level of inflation expected during the coming year this has in the first instance permitted partial or total avoidance of decline in the purchasing power of these wages.

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

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

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

, Japan is the third largest national economy in the world, after the United States and China, in terms of nominal GDP, and the fourth largest national economy in the world, after the United States, China and India, in terms of purchasing power parity.

Thus during the 42 months of the present administration (up to mid 2004) the minimum wage achieved an increase in real terms of 4.7 in line with the policy of supporting a recovery of the purchasing power of minimum wages.

Several members stated that, under the current semi annual scheme, the delays in adjusting pensions in high inflation countries led to severe erosion of the purchasing power of pensions.

Income measured in PPP helps to avoid this problem.

But estimating PPP income raises its own set of problems.

Unemployment has increased sharply and the real purchasing power of families is continuing to decrease.

In the long term, the signing of the north south peace agreement offers opportunity for Darfur and will improve capacity to solve the conflict.

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

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

That is, PPP calculations effectively compare apples with oranges.

And of course, even if that's true, then what about initial buying power?

The following list is of world economies sorted by their gross domestic product (GDP), the value of all final goods and services produced within a nation in a given year, adjusted by purchasing power parity (PPP), in US Dollars.

The representations received from AFICS Buenos Aires concerned the problems involved whenever beneficiaries residing in Argentina wished to go on the two track system in order to preserve the purchasing power of their pensions.

Power.

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

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

The concept of purchasing power parities had not yet been adequately developed to serve for international income comparison.

Deal 'em!