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Contents: Foreword PART I: INTRODUCTION Introduction D.S. Prasada Rao2. The Compilation of Purchasing Power Parities: The Eurostat-OECDPurchasing Power Parity Programme David Roberts PART II: SYSTEM METHODS FORPPP COMPUTATION 3. Aggregation Methods in International Comparisons: AnEvaluation Bert Balk 4. Generalised Elteto-Koves-Szulc andCountry-Product-Dummy Methods for International Comparisons D.S. Prasada Rao5. True International Income Comparisons Correcting for Substitution BiasSteve Dowrick 6. Additivity, Matrix Consistency and a New Method forInternational Comparisons of Real Income and Purchasing Power Parities ItsuoSakuma, D.S. Prasada Rao and Yoshimasa Kurabayashi 7. Implicit DataStructures and Properties of Selected Additive Indices James Cuthbert PARTIII: METHODS FOR SPATIAL LINKING AND ANALYSIS OF PRICE STRUCTURES 8.Similarity Indexes and Criteria for Spatial Linking Erwin Diewert 9.Comparing Per Capita Income Levels across Countries using Spanning Trees:Robustness, Prior Restrictions, Hybrids and Hierarchies Robert Hill 10.Chaining Methods for International Real Product and Purchasing PowerComparisons: Issues and Alternatives Bettina Aten and Alan Heston 11.Aggregation Methods based on Structural International Prices Sergey SergeevPART IV: APPLICATIONS 12. Purchasing Power Parities and their PolicyRelevance Michael Ward 13. Purchasing Power Parity Adjustments forProductivity Level Comparisons Bart van Ark and Marcel Timmer 14. PPPs andthe Price Competitiveness of International Tourism Destinations Larry Dwyer,Peter Forsyth and D.S. Prasada Rao