Transcript CIS - World Bank

GDP comparison
basing on purchasing
power parities
in the CIS countries
Participating countries
Azerbaijan
Armenia
Belarus
Georgia
Kazakhstan
Kyrgizstan
Moldova
Russian Federation
Tajikistan
Turkmenistan
Ukraine
Regional Coordinators
CIS Stat. committee
Rosstat
ICP Regional Office - Bureau of Economic Analysis
Legal base
Council of the Heads of statistical
offices of the CIS countries in December
2003 confirms participation of CIS
countries in comparison
MOU’s has been approved by
Governments and signed
Global MOU has been signed
Base year
CIS countries plan to participate in 2004
round as stated in initial plan of Global
round
Global round is postponed to 2005
CIS decision:
Both years: 2004 and 2005
Main features of CIS comparison
GDP comparison 1993 SNA
Multilateral base
EKS aggregation
Fixity principle for CIS countries
Using asterisk method
What is done?
1 multilateral meeting in 2003
Subject: ICP methodology
2 multilateral meetings in 2004
Subject: Consumer and investment item
list
1 bilateral meeting between
coordinators and participating country
What is done?(continued)
Creation of item lists (1330 consumer
and 200 equipment items)
Special work with construction
Creation of the web site
Translation of documents
Monitoring price observation in
countries
Research in construction
Problems
Communication problems caused by absence
of electricity, non compatible software
Voluntary changes of reporting forms
Institutional changes in some countries
No checking prices
No marking asterisks for representative items
Financing
Achievements
Timely receiving questionnaires
Good coverage of item lists