One should try on shoes before purchasing them.

Purchasing power has greatly fallen.

The new data are based on improved estimates of purchasing power parity (PPP).

On the one hand, there are more mouths to feed, and with greater purchasing power on average.

Vasile expressed interest in purchasing Israeli military helicopters.

This strengthens purchasing power and ultimately private consumption.

GDP figures are calculated at purchasing power parity.

Carney wants to keep patients from purchasing kidneys on the black market and in overseas organ bazaars.

In Pakistan purchasing diseases is quite an easy task.

To strengthen purchasing power and to stimulate consumption, tax cuts on low and medium income households are essential.

Purchasing CDS contracts is like buying insurance on someone else s life and owning a license to kill him.

The lower dollar also reduces the purchasing power of oil exporters.

Soaring oil prices will cut corporate profits and household purchasing power.

That can t happen without increased wages and purchasing power for workers.

Unsurprisingly, no European firm is currently interested in purchasing such credits.

Fifth, the current value of the euro does not seem wildly out of line on a purchasing power basis. 160

On August 5, 2009, Google bought out its first public company, purchasing video software maker On2 Technologies for 106.5 million.

Yes, we must not miss the opportunity of purchasing it,' Vronsky declared.

Even health care organizations are getting in on the action, using a community s purchasing patterns to predict, say, an influenza outbreak.

The OECD countries, on average, use 160 kilograms of oil equivalent energy for every 1,000 of GDP (measured at purchasing power parity).

Thus, in principle, the purchasing power for the extra output would be available.

A 20 dollar depreciation would therefore reduce Americans purchasing power by only 3 .

The purchasing power in Brazil is eroded by the so called Brazil cost.

In New York and other American cities, European shoppers are on a spree. They re enjoying first hand the euro s enhanced purchasing power abroad.

Because of low purchasing power many people cannot buy all the food they need.

I was purchasing something I was buying my right to go on with my day and not necessarily be bothered by this bad news.

Thus, normal re equilibration to purchasing power parity should give the dollar slight upward momentum.

To take one prominent example, there is a 25 margin of error on purchasing power parity comparisons between GDP in the United States and China.

On the other hand, critics point out that the world today is poor average annual GDP per capita at purchasing power parity is roughly 7,000.

The availability and cost of electricity affect directly the purchasing power and the competitiveness of companies.

Whatever tax law changes the US Congress approves this summer are unlikely to have big effects on the flow of purchasing power to households until April, 2004.

By focusing on job creation, wage increases, and the social safety net, the 12th Five Year Plan could spark a major increase in discretionary consumer purchasing power.

Being outside the euro area, their currencies would fall, undermining growth in purchasing power and living standards.

At that price, the dollar was undervalued by roughly 10 relative to its purchasing power parity (PPP).

These numbers do not reflect purchasing power, but the Russian middle class measure their salaries in dollars.

More than a billion people now live on less than the purchasing power equivalent, in their own country, of what can be bought in the US for 1.00.

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

The European Commission s economic index is plummeting, purchasing managers indices are down and so are German retail sales.

As legions of new consumers gain purchasing power, demand inevitably rises, driving up the price of scarce commodities.

Economy Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in purchasing power parity (PPP) in 2006 was estimated at 1.218 billion USD.

Several Central European countries have achieved per capita GDP levels (measured in terms of purchasing power parity) that place them on the lower rungs of the eurozone s income ladder.

On the other hand, critics point out that the world today is poor average annual GDP per capita at purchasing power parity is roughly 7,000. We expect improved technology and its spread to make the world of 2100, at a 2 annual growth rate, much richer 50,000 per capita of year 2006 purchasing power.

By focusing on job creation in services, massive urbanization, and the broadening of its social safety net, there will be a big boost to labor income and consumer purchasing power.

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

The basic idea is that, when comparing incomes across countries, variations in purchasing power should be taken into account.