Comparisons of prices and real products in Latin America /
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[Book]
First Statement of Responsibility
edited by J. Salazar-Carrillo and D.S. Prasada Rao.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
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New York, N.Y., U.S.A. :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Distributors for the U.S. and Canada, Elsevier Science Pub. Co.,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
1990.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
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xiii, 368 p. :
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ill. ;
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23 cm.
SERIES
Series Title
Contributions to economic analysis ;
Volume Designation
194
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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Extrapolations of purchasing power parities / Aquiles Arellano -- The use of regression methods in international comparisons / Jorge Salazar-Carrillo -- International comparisons on the basis of different types of prices / Jorge Salazar-Carrillo -- The International Comparisons of Output and Productivity (ICOP) Project / Angus Maddison -- Comparing real output, purchasing power and labour productivity : a case study for Argentina and the United States, 1973-1985 / Dirk Pilat and André Hofman -- Agricultural output and productivity of labour and land in Latin America / D.S. Prasada Rao and W.F. Shepherd -- A methodology for collecting construction prices / Angelo Jorge de Souza and Camillo Michalka -- Methodology for comparing rents / Ricardo Lira.
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Overview / Jorge Salazar-Carrillo and D.S. Prasada Rao -- Comparisons of purchasing power and real income in Latin America : a review of methods ; Comparisons of purchasing power and real income in Latin America : empirical results / Jorge Salazar-Carrillo -- Real product and price comparisons in Central American countries : 1987 / Jorge Salazar-Carrillo and Irma T. de Alonso -- Indirect taxation, tariff protection and price relatives in the Central American Common Market / Jorge Salazar-Carrillo -- A generalized Konus system of index numbers for multilateral comparisons / D.S. Prasada Rao and Jorge Salazar-Carrillo -- A system of log-change index numbers for multilateral comparisons / D.S. Prasada Rao -- A theoretical and empirical analysis of index number formulae for multinational purchasing power and product comparisons / Frank Orlando.
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Comparisons of prices and real products in Latin America.