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INDEX PURCHASING POWER [7 records]

Record 1 2011-10-05

English

Subject field(s)
  • Investment
DEF

An investment in such assets which are likely to increase in line with the retail price index, so that the investor will be able to retain his/her purchasing power.

CONT

Bonds, long-term mortgages and insurance contracts, as well as nonconvertible preferred stocks, are poor hedges against inflation because they offer stated and fixed returns, and principals over their life ... Investments that offer variable returns are usually better hedges against inflation.

CONT

Like their cousins, gold and silver, platinum and palladium are priced in U.S. dollars per ounce. And, like the other precious metals, they can be used as inflation hedges.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Investissements et placements
DEF

Investissement permettant d'être à l'abri en cas de crise financière ou de dépression des marchés.

CONT

L'or sous sa forme physique est considéré comme valeur refuge.

Spanish

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Record 2 2004-09-14

English

Subject field(s)
  • Cost of Living
  • Saving and Consumption
  • National Accounting
  • Production (Economics)
CONT

Real income is obtained by deflating any income flow by a price index in order to measure the purchasing power of the item in question over a designated numeraire set of goods and services.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Coût de la vie
  • Épargne et consommation
  • Comptabilité nationale
  • Production (Économie)
CONT

Le revenu réel s'obtient en appliquant à tous les flux de revenu un indice de prix permettant de mesurer le pouvoir d'achat du revenu en question relativement à la corbeille de biens ou de services prise comme étalon.

OBS

Éviter «revenu effectif».

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Costo de vida
  • Ahorro y consumo
  • Contabilidad nacional
  • Producción (Economía)
DEF

Ingreso que se mide en términos de los bienes y servicios reales que se pueden comprar.

OBS

Se puede calcular dividiendo el ingreso monetario entre un índice de precios apropiado.

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Record 3 2003-09-23

English

Subject field(s)
  • Statistics
  • Economic Co-operation and Development
  • Rights and Freedoms
CONT

Uses the same variables as the human development index which are longevity(life expectancy at birth), knowledge(adult literacy and mean years of schooling) and income(purchasing power parity dollars per capita), but notes the sociological inequalities(life expectancy, education and adjusted real income) between men and women in 130 countries.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Statistique
  • Coopération et développement économiques
  • Droits et libertés
CONT

[L'indicateur] se fonde sur les mêmes variables que l'indicateur du développement humain soit la longévité (espérance de vie à la naissance), connaissances (alphabétisation des adultes et moyenne d'années d'études), et revenu (en parités de pouvoir d'achat exprimés en dollars par habitant) mais se concentre sur les inégalités sociologiques (espérance de vie, niveau d'éducation et revenu réel pondéré) entre hommes et femmes.

Key term(s)
  • indicateur des disparités des sexes dans le développement

Spanish

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Record 4 1998-10-14

English

Subject field(s)
  • Cost of Living
DEF

The Buying Power Index (BPI) is a weighted measure that combines a metro area’s total population, income and real sales and expresses it as a percentage of total U.S. potential.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Coût de la vie

Spanish

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Record 5 1991-10-17

English

Subject field(s)
  • Finance
OBS

An instrument that pays interest at a lower-than-market rate reflecting a real rate of return to investor, while the amount owing in respect of the instrument is subject to adjustments linked to changes in the purchasing power of money as measured by the Consumer Price Index.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Finances
OBS

Expression à définir dans l'article 248(1) de la Loi de l'impôt sur le revenu.

OBS

Source : communiqué 91-014. Ministère des Finances.

Spanish

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Record 6 1981-01-28

English

Subject field(s)
  • Currency and Foreign Exchange
OBS

A 1929-1933 comparison will illustrate the process by which one uses a price index number to "deflate" a "current money NNP", converting it into a "real NNP in terms of dollars of unchanged 1929 purchasing power".

French

Domaine(s)
  • Politique monétaire et marché des changes

Spanish

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Record 7 1981-01-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • National and International Economics
  • Pricing Theory
  • Statistical Methods
OBS

By use of price index, we can "deflate" money NNP(in current dollars) to arrive at a more accurate measure of "real NNP", expressed in dollars of one base-year's purchasing power. Use of such an average price index(of consumer-goods, investment-goods, and government-goods prices) is an approximate way of allowing for the rubber yardstick implied by changing levels of price.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Économie nationale et internationale
  • Théorie des prix
  • Méthodes statistiques

Spanish

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