Purchasing power parity (PPP) is an important and critical topic in international economics. It arises when the purchasing power of an amount of money is the same in different countries. This is when prices of two different countries are converted to a common currency. The idea is based on the law of one price, where in the absence of official trade restrictions, similar goods will have the same price in different markets, with the prices being expressed in the same (common) currency.…
This article was our starting article which gave us the idea of researching the Purchasing Power Parity. It identifies that the Purchasing Power Parity should work in the long run, and that the exchange rates should move towards rates that would balance the prices of an identical basket of goods and services between two countries.…
Gross national income per capita (GNI per capita) represents the market value of all final goods and services newly produced in an economy by a country’s domestically-owned firms in a given year divided by its population. Thus, GNI per capita serves as a very useful indicator of current individual wealth and consumption patterns; those countries with high populations as well as high per capita GNI are most desirable in terms of total market potential. Purchasing power parity (PPP) represents the number of units of a country’s currency required to buy the same amount of goods and services in the domestic market that one unit of income would buy in another…
One of the foundations of international economics is the theory of Purchasing Power Parity, which states that price levels in any two countries should be identical after converting prices into a common currency. As a theoretical proposition, PPP has long served as the basis for theories of international price determination and the conditions under which international markets adjust to attain long-term equilibrium. As an empirical matter, however, PPP has been a more elusive concept. (Pakko & Pollar, 2003). Another version of the theory explains changes in the exchange rate by changes in the relative purchasing power of the currencies. The explanation of the exchange rate is that it depends on supply and demand, and purchasing power is only one of many factors…
When GDP per capita is adjusted by purchasing power parity (PPP) a constant growth can be seen as above indicating increased economic prosperity on a year-by-year basis, with only a small dip at a time of global economic troubles. Adjusting GDP per capita by PPP is useful to compare differences in living standards between nations as PPP takes the relative cost of living and inflation rate of countries into account, and not just exchange rates that may distort the real differences in income.2…
The new generation Philippine banknotes composes of the denominations twenty, fifty, one hundred, two hundred, five hundred, and one thousand peso bills. The new twenty-piso bill honors President Manuel L. Quezon, the first President of the Republic of the Philippines on the front of the bill while the reverse shows the image of the breathtaking Banaue Rice Teraces and the Palm Civet from the Cordilleras. The fifty-piso bill commemorates President Sergio Osmeña who led our country at the critical stage of World War II. The reverse shows an image of the Taal Lake, one of the world’s smallest active volcanoes and the Maliputo Fish. The one hundred-piso bill pays…
The Philippines is a large country, with high population density, and a population growth rate relatively higher (2.2 percent per year in 1990-94) then the SEA standard. The ratio of urban population is high. The country spends a sizeable proportion of government budget, 16 percent in 1993, on education; and literacy rate is more than 80 percent.…
In spite of its relatively low per capita GDP, the Philippines was ranked number five on the “vanity index”, which was determined by measuring the…
The conflict of the plot revolved around the character of Ramon. As the father, Ramon is absolutely convinced that it is only his will that must be obeyed by all the members of his family. His rigidity provoked a miniature revolt among his children. Tony, a character vaguely described in the story was the first to express his outrage against the severity of the condition. He decided to leave and settle in the United States. As a result, his father considers him no longer as his son and forbids his name to be mentioned in the house.…
The first paper money circulated in the Philippines, Pesos Fuertes, were issued in 1852 by El Banco Espanol Filipino de Isabel II, the first bank established in the country. The banknote, "Strong Pesos" in English, had denominations of 5, 10, 25, 50 and 100.…
The peso continues to struggle in the year 2005 but compared to 2004 it appreciated by 1.72%. The factors that affect the peso and help increase the standing of our economy are the remittances by the Overseas Filipino Workers on…
• In the Philippines, the monetary system is the managed currency system, and the monetary unit is the Peso.…
A camera is an optical instrument that records images that can be stored directly, transmitted to another location, or both. These images may be still photographs or moving images such as videos or movies. The term camera comes from the word camera obscura (Latin for "dark chamber"), an early mechanism for projecting images. The modern camera evolved from the camera obscura. The functioning of camera is very similar to the functioning of the human eye.The first practical reflex camera was the Franke & Heidecke Rolleiflex medium format TLR of 1928. Though both single- and twin-lens reflex cameras had been available for decades, they were too bulky to achieve much popularity. The Rolleiflex, however, was sufficiently compact to achieve widespread popularity and the medium-format TLR design became popular for both high- and low-end cameras.…
For the past decades, the Filipinos used the peso bills launched on 1985 for economic purposes. However, a new drive to place new banknotes in the peso bills circulation has pushed the Central Bank of the Philippines (Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas) to make an inapt move towards the said matter. The problem focuses on the immediate demonetization of the old banknotes in the year 2017. According to BSP, old banknotes will lose its monetary value and shall never be used in the market. As 2017 is fast approaching, there are various interrogations about this topic. Significantly, the new banknotes may offer us new and improved features but on the other hand, it still undergo several reviews that points issues which creates critical problems and serious…
By loaning money to the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the Philippines will be able to help boost its own economy by earning money through interest.…