Documents for the 3rd Post-2011 ICP RCA Meeting (October 28-30, 2015)

Session I Interim regional PPP updates

Brief update on post-2011 activities at the regional level

• Africa (African Development Bank)
• Asia (Asian Development Bank)
• CIS (CIS-STAT) 
• Latin America (UN-ECLAC) 
• Western Asia (UN-ESCWA)
• Eurostat-OECD PPP program

Finalizing survey materials for regional PPP updates: global core lists and survey forms

National accounts and price deflator

• National accounts questionnaires
• Data submission and quality
• Technical Assistance on National Accounts and Prices
• Technical assistance strategies to improve expenditure estimates and price deflators

Abridged expenditure classification for the future

• ICP expenditure proposed classification
• Impact of reduced classification on ICP results

Session II Interim technical agenda

Setting up an interim technical agenda

Linking interim regional PPP updates and filling “gaps” in regional and global

• ICP Update: Linking Issues
• Review of data variability as it affects aggregation of PPPs

Productivity issues

• Construction approach and productivity issues
• Productivity Issues

Industry-based PPPs

• ICP and Industry Productivity

PPP extrapolation

• An Econometric Approach to the Extrapolation of PPPs to non-benchmark years
• Consistency and Extrapolation of ICP Benchmarks: The Case of Asia
• Extrapolation of the ICP 2011 PPPs

Alternative sources of price data

• Alternative sources of price data

Sub-national PPPsL Case studies

• Regional Price Parities
• Subnational PPP toward Integration of ICP and CPI: The Case of the Philippines

Poverty PPPs

• ICP and poverty measurement
• Effect of alternative poverty-related computations on PPPs for developing countries
• Modifying HHC for Poverty Line Estimation
• Poverty sensitive PPPs: Project Proposal

Next Steps

Session III Discussions on the future

• FOC ICP Evaluation of the ICP 2011 and proposals for the future ICP

Background Papers

Session I

• Global Core List Household Consumption.zip
• ICP Data Collection Form_Special Surveys.zip
• ICP_National_Accounts_Quality_Assurance_Questionnaire
• Proposed reduced ICP classification
• Note on the proposed reduced ICP classification
• Impact of Reduced Classification on ICP results - Dikhanov

Session II

• Estimating poverty counts - Heston
• Extrapolation of 2011 PPPs - Sergeev
• A global count of the extreme poor in 2012 - Ferreira and all
• Industry Productivity - Inklaar and Diewert
• ISI 2015 - ICP CPI Consistency and Extrapolation - Dikhanov and Capilit
• ISI 2015 - Subnational PPPs - Capilit and Dikhanov
• ISI 2015 - Poverty - Rao
• ISI 2015 - PPP time series - Aten
• ISI 2015 - Understanding ICP 2011 results - Vogel