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So this week, as the world celebrates the incredible progress that women have made on the long march to parity, I will be thinking about women like Rasmata, who have accomplished so much despite having so little.

The gap in per-capita income of the EU15 (the membership prior to the accession of mainly post-communist states in 2004) relative to the United States – taken as a reference in many targets – is unchanged at 30-40%, depending on the adjustment to purchasing power parity.

Benchmarking has been moving to the policy arena, including issues such as sustainable development, the business environment, competitiveness, gender parity, and, more recently, inclusive growth.

If the euro falls by 20-25%, bringing it close to parity with the dollar and weakening it to a similar extent against other currencies, the current-account deficits in Italy, Spain, and France would shrink and their economies would strengthen.

Cuba has one of the world’s longest-lasting dual-exchange-rate systems: the dollar’s market value is 25 times the official rate of nominal parity (one peso equals one dollar).

An FTA that encompasses, respectively, the world’s second, third, and 12th biggest economies (in purchasing power parity terms in 2011), with a population of 1.5 billion, would dwarf the European Union and the North American Free Trade Agreement, comprising the United States, Canada, and Mexico.

Indeed, capital-flow volatility could make short work of the flexible exchange rate on offer under ERM II - a 15% fluctuation band either side of a central parity.

Demographers warn that the Jewish and Arab populations between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean will reach parity this year.

Why We Need Women in the MilitaryISLAMABAD – Saudi Arabia’s decision to allow women to serve in the military – part of its Vision 2030 economic-reform program – has been widely celebrated as a step forward for gender parity in the notoriously unequal kingdom.

While many have touted Africa’s success in maintaining a 5-6% average GDP growth rate during the past decade, this masks the reality that by 2005, sub-Saharan Africa was little better off than it was a quarter-century earlier: it was still the world’s poorest region, with just over half of its population living on less than $1.25 a day in purchasing parity terms.

By next year, China’s outward investment is likely to reach over $100 billion annually – bringing it close to parity with inflows.

Belgium followed the mainly French monetarist school, while the Netherlands shared Germany’s preference for economic convergence before committing to exchange-rate parity.

In fact, per capita GDP – and thus productivity – in a number of Chinese provinces with a combined population of over 100 million is similar to that of advanced countries (around $30,000 per capita at purchasing power parity).

And last year, according to the IMF, China overtook the United States to become the world’s largest economy (in purchasing power parity terms).

The euro will stay at around 90% of the dollar and may not even pay a weekend visit at parity.

According to IMF figures, Greece’s never-ending crisis has cut per capita GDP (in terms of purchasing power parity) by 10% since 2010, and by 18% since 2007.

The Dodd-Frank legislation contains rules that have impeded the functioning of the international monetary market: by raising US dollar funding costs for foreign banks, the rule compromised so-called covered interest parity.

But the G-20’s effort to create parity in these institutions between the advanced economies and the emerging and transition countries has ground to a halt.

Seventy years later, even after America’s massive foreign-policy mistakes in Iraq and elsewhere, and even after Chinese GDP has supposedly caught up with America’s (at least in terms of purchasing power parity), the world remains ready to be led by the US, including on the crucial subjects of trade and IMF reform.

Their inflation was lower, and they oriented their policies toward maintaining a competitive exchange rate through the adoption of a so-called “crawling band,” whereby the currency is allowed to fluctuate within a band around a central parity.

With a per capita income of $13,000 last year (measured by purchasing power parity), South Africa is a middle-income country similar to Brazil, Mexico, and Thailand.

A measure of South Korea’s success is that it was the first country to make the transition from being a recipient of OECD aid to becoming a donor, with per capita GDP today exceeding $30,000 (in purchasing power parity terms).

The McKinsey study used 15 indicators – including common measurements of economic equality, like wages and labor-force participation rates, as well as metrics for social, political, and legal equality – to assign “gender parity scores” to 95 countries, accounting for 97% of global GDP and 93% of the world’s women.

The most developed regions of Europe and North America are closest to gender parity, while the still-developing region of South Asia has the furthest to go.

Given recent rates of progress, it is unrealistic to expect full gender parity in the world of work in the foreseeable future.

Women who enjoy parity in education are more likely to share unpaid work with men more equitably, to work in high-productivity professional and technical occupations, and to assume leadership roles.

One of the highest barriers to gender parity, however, may be deeply held beliefs and attitudes.

Clearly, reaching gender parity will be no easy feat.

China is still a poor country, with per capita GDP at roughly a quarter of the US level (on the basis of purchasing power parity).

And, according to some traders, the pound will continue its decline this fall, and could reach parity with the euro before long.

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