Theoretical and practical issues in purchasing power parities illustrated with reference to the 1993 organization for economic co-operation and development data

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series A: Statistics in Society

Volumn 163, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 421-444

  Cuthbert, James R ^a  

^a NONE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Geary khamis index; Gini elteto koves schultz index; Ikl ; Index; Index numbers; Purchasing power parities; Real volume comparisons

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034354638     PISSN: 09641998     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-985X.00176     Document Type: Article

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