That is, PPP calculations effectively compare apples with oranges.

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.

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

The purpose of PPP comparison is to measure a country s real quality of life.

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

This absurd result is possible only because PPP is comparing two different consumption bundles.

But, after the World Bank revised China s GDP in PPP terms downward by 40 , that undervaluation disappeared.

SINGAPORE In 2016, China s share of the global economy will be larger than America s in purchasing price parity terms.

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

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In this case, a 10 appreciation of the renminbi increases the purchasing power of a Chinese person in the US by exactly 10 , whereas his life quality does not change in PPP terms.

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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.

And, even more radically, Arvind Subramanian of the Peterson Institute of International Economics argues that China actually surpassed the US in PPP terms in 2010.

It would also make known to currency traders its concern about excessive departures from its estimated parity values and its readiness to intervene at unpredictable moments to impede further departures from PPP.

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The Treaties of Maastricht (1992) and Amsterdam (1997) created a new organizational structure for the EU and laid the foundations for political institutions equal to Europe s economic power.

But the consumption basket of an average Chinese is vastly different from the consumption basket of an average American, so PPP comparisons between China and the US can be misleading.

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And, by using purchasing power parity, which measures the cost of the same basket of goods and services in different countries, economists can adjust GDP to gain better insight into living standards.

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Europe devotes half as much in financial resources to the military as the US, resulting in one tenth of America's military strength, observed Pat Cox, Speaker of the European Parliament.

PPP gives an answer to the following question how much does a Chinese need to earn to maintain his quality of life in China when he moves to the US?

More than 50 of the world s population is now considered middle class, with a living standard above the average of the developed countries poverty lines ( 8.2 at 1996 PPP prices).

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These measures alone correspond to 4 of global GDP.

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In fact, this is one example where technology might actually have contributed to equalizing incomes.

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Indeed, these reports challenge the prevailing approach, which has left more than one billion people living below the poverty line (defined as the purchasing power parity equivalent of 1.25 per day in 2005), and has failed to prevent economic growth from stalling in most countries.