Per capita GDP at constant prices was 140 higher in Britain in 1960 than in Brazil in 2010.

Overall health statistics are worse than those in comparable countries.

(at 1948 49 prices Rs.) Population

Bush lacks comparable successes to compensate for his mismanagement of Iraq.

We talked about food prices.

The second danger springs from high asset values within the advanced industrial core.

The differences in price for many other consumer goods is even larger.

Lack of confidence is reflected in low and volatile asset values.

During the 16th century, Spain held the equivalent of US 1.5 trillion (1990 terms) in gold and silver from New Spain.

There is a famous saying in America that all politics are local.

The same is true of prices.

If one were to instead grow coconut or rapeseed, more land would be required to produce the same amount of oil.

A major reason is the decline in gasoline and other energy prices.

How can such a huge price gap not have an impact on competitiveness?

His economic policies in the face of dwindling international oil prices have been disastrous.

Stellar winds and radiation pressure from the massive stars begins to drive away the hot ionized gas at a velocity matching the speed of sound in the gas.

A better balance between production and consumption would avoid large swings in oil prices.

What, then, is behind lasting differences in prices within and between countries?

Price divergences are here to stay. The Euro will do little to change that.

Stock and housing prices may be volatile, but the data are much cleaner and timelier than anything available for output and inflation. This is why central bankers must think about the information embedded in asset prices.

LONDON Violent swings in oil prices are destabilizing economies and financial markets worldwide.

This is why central bankers must think about the information embedded in asset prices.

In 1963, Benoit Mandelbrot found recurring patterns at every scale in data on cotton prices.

Specifically, not much more than a decade is needed for the share of global GDP generated by developing economies to pass the 50 mark when measured in market prices.

Here is how it would work.

Here is how it would work. Instead of denominating a loan to Nigeria in terms of dollars, the Bank would denominate it in terms of the price of oil and lay off its exposure to the world oil price by issuing that same quantity of bonds denominated in oil.

Many countries are seeing vigorous growth in prices for housing, commercial real estate, or both.

The main construction was largely completed by 1939, at a cost of around 3 billion French francs.

With higher energy prices, many Russian officials are enjoying their renewed power.

August 18 Hurricane Alicia hits the Texas coast, killing 22 and causing over US 3.8 billion (2005 dollars) in damage.

There seems to be no dramatic fundamental news since March other than the price increases themselves.

Politicians are loath to raise the tax even one penny when gas prices are high.

Likewise, Venezuela was running large fiscal deficits and tolerating high inflation even when oil prices were above 100 a barrel at current prices, it may have to default on its public debt, unless China decides to bail out the country.

The government may have to shore up the financial system if the changes in asset prices that undermined the dollar sink risk loving or imprudent lenders.

Other models have large quarterly shocks to the depreciation rate in the capital stock (in order to generate high asset price volatilities)...

As per the current prices, the total GDP was estimated at 254 billion as against 230 billion in the year 2004 05, showing an increase of 10.5 .

President Vladimir Putin s new Novorossya project simply cannot progress with oil prices at their current level.

Distortions in key prices that favor capital intensive manufacturing need to be removed by raising the cost of land, energy, water, and capital.

This change in relative costs can release a country from the trap of poverty, setting the stage for a demographic transition and economic advancement.

It turns out there that is extensive evidence that a sustained shift in share prices is followed by a gradual change in unemployment.

Europe s sigh of relief at the supposed end of the dispute between Russia and Ukraine over gas pricing was audible here in Kyiv.

Protecting human and ecosystem health are difficult to price, because they form part of the pervasive externalities associated with water use.

Absent large price changes for raw materials, the consumer price index evolves along with the GDP deflator (the price deflator for the entire economy).

According to the leaked memo, Russia and the DNR agreed to prices and transit routes for diesel fuel deliveries as early as August 20.

Statistical evidence shows that the same given change in share prices is followed by a greater change in employment in the more capitalist economies than in the more corporatist ones.