Understanding PPPs and PPP-based national accounts: Comment

American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 46-52

  Ravallion, Martin ^a  

^a WORLD BANK   (United States)

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EID: 85015659412     PISSN: 19457707     EISSN: 19457715     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1257/mac.2.4.46     Document Type: Article

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