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Purchasing power
About: Purchasing power is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 2714 publications have been published within this topic receiving 36866 citations. The topic is also known as: adjusted for inflation.
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TL;DR: Sudan has a population of 26 million people, an annual GNP growth rate of 1 percent, and an inflation rate of over 70 percent as mentioned in this paper, and over half a million people have died between 1984 and 1990 due to starvation.
Abstract: The Sudan, with an area of one million square miles has a population of 26 million people, an annual GNP growth rate of 1 percent, and an inflation rate of over 70 percent. The country is heterogeneous in many respects including climate, geography, history, languages, and people. Eighty-five percent of the labor force is in the agricultural sector and agriculture contributes 30 percent to GNP. Ninety percent of the exports are agricultural raw materials that include: cotton, livestock, sesame, groundnuts, and gum arabic. Despite these exports, the country faces an acute balance of payment deficits, large budget deficits, and government expenditures. Sudan's external debt rose from $ 3.8 billion in 1978 to $ 13.5 billion in 1990. The depth of poverty determines the impact of the famine. The effects of food shortages, and purchasing power collapse are not felt in higher income groups with good asset bases. The poor face long-term constraints in food production, access to education, health care, markets, credit, improved inputs, and information. Over half a million people have died between 1984 and 1990 due to starvation. The situation is worse in
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TL;DR: Survey results show that these collaborations are becoming more prevalent because the benefits outweigh the difficulties and publishers became more flexible about allowing libraries to collaborate on the journal title lists.
Abstract: Libraries have joined consortia to increase their purchasing power, and in recent years they have been focusing on electronic journal packages. Purchasing a publisher's entire journal list, often called a Big Deal, seemed to be a good answer at first, but many librarians and libraries found that this solution was restrictive on their budgets and detrimental to their collections. In response, publishers became more flexible about allowing libraries to collaborate on the journal title lists. Survey results show that these collaborations are becoming more prevalent because the benefits outweigh the difficulties.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors calculate the welfare cost to families of an unemployment shock using U.S. data and find an average annualized expected dollar equivalent welfare loss of $1,156 when the unemployment rate rises by one-percentage point.
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TL;DR: This article tried to overcome this problem by estimating PPPs at subnational level (TL2 regions) for OECD countries through a new method which uses publicly available data and is based on the Balassa-Samuelson hypothesis.
Abstract: Due to the lack of Purchasing Power Parities (PPPs) at regional level, regional Gross Domestic Product (GDP) figures have been traditionally adjusted using national PPPs. The simplifying assumption that all regions of a country have the same cost of living, and implicitly that there are no regional differences in prices, might lead to regional GDP figures (adjusted for national PPPs) that are biased and might limit the design and implementation of regional policies. This paper tries to overcome this problem by estimating PPPs at subnational level (TL2 regions) for OECD countries through a new method which uses publicly available data and is based on the Balassa-Samuelson hypothesis.
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TL;DR: In this article, the effects of inflation on private pension plans were investigated and the answer given by the authors is no, although some pension plans have failed to compensate investors for the erosion of the purchasing power of their funds.
Abstract: Do the effects of inflation threaten the nationA¢Â€Â™s private pension plans? The answer given by the authors of this study is no, although some pension plans have failed to compensate investors for the erosion of the purchasing power of their funds.
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