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December 1987

Comparison of purchasing power parity between the United States and Canada

John Dryden, Katrina Reut, Barbara Slater

Purchasing power parities determine expenditures for real gross domestic product among countries without the use of the exchange rate to convert currencies; parities more accurately reflect the rate at which currency in one country can be converted to buy an equivalent "market basket" in another country.

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