Technical meeting on validation of household consumption expenditure prices of the International Comparison Program (ICP), Cycle 2021

17 May 2022 | Event
<span>Technical meeting on validation of household consumption expenditure prices of the International Comparison Program (ICP), Cycle 2021</span>

Event information

Virtual meeting organized by ECLAC in its capacity as Regional Coordinator for Latin America and the Caribbean of the ICP, together with the World Bank under the guidelines of the ICP Global Office and CARICOM.

Date

17 - 18 May 2022, 07:00 - 09:00

Event type

Meetings and technical symposiums

Address

Plataforma de conexión / Connection platform: ZOOM
Hora/Time: 11:00-13:00 (Chile, UTC-4))
Interpretación simultánea Esp-Eng / Simultaneous interpretation Spa-Eng
Reunión virtual / Virtual meeting
Chile

Technical meeting with price focal points of the of the International Comparison Program (ICP), Cycle 2021.

Topics of this meeting:

  1. Global update on the ICP 2021 Cycle.
  2. Review of the methodological concepts in the calculation of the CPI.
  3. Review of the procedures carried out with the information collected between 2019-2020 and 2021.
  4. Review of the schedule of activities for the region.

Programme of work

17 May 2022

  • Session 1: Welcome remarks and general background

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    Presentation(s)
  • Session 2: Purchasing Power Parities Computation (PPP)

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    Presentation(s)
    • Methodological aspects of PPP computation (Aspectos metodológicos para el cálculo de las PPA)

      Yuri Dikhanov, Banco Mundial / World Bank

    • Ejemplos prácticos y tablas de diagnóstico / Practical examples and diagnostic tables (Archivo/File: XLSX)

      Yuri Dikhanov, Banco Mundial / World Bank

  • Session 3: Household Consumption Expenditure Prices for 2021 Cycle: Quarter 3

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    Presentation(s)
    • Procedimiento de validación intra e inter-países y extrapolación de los datos recolectados para el tercer trimestre 2019-2020 (Intra and inter-country validation procedure and extrapolation of data collected for quarter 3, 2019-2020)

      CEPAL / ECLAC

18 May 2022

  • Session 3: Household Consumption Expenditure Prices for 2021 Cycle: Quarter 3 (continuation)

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    Presentation(s)
    • Validación de precios del tercer trimestre del gasto del consumo de los hogares / Validation of quarter 3 prices of household consumption expenditure

      CEPAL / ECLAC

    • » Ronda de preguntas y comentarios / Questions and comments

  • Session 4: Concluding remarks and next steps

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    Presentation(s)
    • ▪ CEPAL / ECLAC

Organizing institution

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Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC)

Grupo Banco Mundial

Grupo Banco Mundial

Caribbean Community

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