Parity
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Market makers now have been instructed that the offer prices they report to the PBOC should be based on the market’s closing
parity
rate from the previous day, along with the demand and supply conditions in the foreign-exchange market and the movements of major currencies’ exchange rates.
The US economy is about twice the size of China’s; if it grows by only 2% annually, and China’s economy grows by 6%, they could reach
parity
sometime after 2025.
A RAND study projects that by 2015, China’s military expenditure will be more than six times higher than Japan’s, and its accumulated military capital stock will be roughly five times higher (measured at purchasing power parity).
Throughout the PLA's history, a chief tactic has always been to launch asymmetrical attacks on an enemy's command and communication centers, thus obviating direct confrontations where
parity
in technological development would determine a clearer definition of victory and defeat.
If the world is ever to reach
parity
in development, we must change how we gauge and catalogue the quality of policy initiatives.
And given that its economy is already larger than America’s in terms of purchasing power parity, the fear that it will surpass the US in terms of nominal GDP – which is not the same thing as wealth – seems rather beside the point.
The ratio of job openings to applicants has exceeded parity, and the GDP deflator narrowed to close to zero.
But, even if overall Chinese GDP reaches
parity
with that of the US in the 2020’s, the two economies will not be equal in composition.
Indeed, enrollment rates for school-age females have increased steadily at all levels, reaching near
parity
with male enrollment globally.
Moreover, in 2016, Singapore’s per capita GDP, measured by purchasing power parity, was $87,100, or about 50% higher than Hong Kong’s.
Moreover, according to the latest Eurostat data, average per capita GDP (in terms of purchasing power parity) in the Welsh and Tees Valleys is, respectively, 69% and 74% lower than the EU average, placing them below Lithuania, Slovakia, and Slovenia.
The vast majority recognize the issue as imperative to their companies’ success and have implemented measures to promote gender
parity
in their organizations.
And yet, for all the fine words, much more remains to be done before gender
parity
is actually achieved.
It is important, of course, to reassure male skeptics who view gender
parity
as a threat.
Addressing such concerns will require us to show that we are not promoting some people at the expense of others; gender
parity
must be win-win, not zero-sum.
Recent research suggests that, at the current rate of progress, it will take another 80 years to reach gender
parity.
Beyond looking at purchasing power parity, we also have models for estimating real-exchange-rate (RER) equilibrium, such as by identifying the exchange rate at which a country can achieve a sustainable current-account balance, or the rate that would allow an economy to reach full employment.
It is on course to overtake China as the world’s most populous country by 2034, it has the world’s fourth-largest army and nuclear weapons, and it is already the world’s fifth-largest economy in terms of purchasing power
parity
and continues to climb, though too many of its people remain destitute.
Now is the time to accelerate progress toward gender parity, and to women’s power to deliver growth and improve social wellbeing.
For example, Japan was already a high-income country in 1973, with per capita income (in terms of purchasing power parity) at roughly 60% of the United States’ level.
The Japanese fear that the credibility of American extended deterrence will be weakened if the US decreases its nuclear forces to
parity
with China.
It is a mistake, however, to believe that extended deterrence depends on
parity
in numbers of nuclear weapons.
From 2000 to 2008, these four countries’ share of global output rose rapidly, from 16% to 22% (in purchasing power
parity
terms), and their economies performed better than average in the subsequent global recession.
Thus, normal re-equilibration to “purchasing power parity” should give the dollar slight upward momentum.
The European Parliament’s preference for greater gender
parity
is surely welcome, though it is probably based more on a desire to avoid criticism than a genuine commitment to diversity.
In 2008, China’s per capita income stood at 21% of the US level (measured in purchasing power parity), and was similar to Japan’s per capita income in 1951, South Korea’s in 1977, and Taiwan’s in 1975.
They did not see their struggle as a cultural or ideological clash between men and women, but rather as a very practical effort to live free from violence and sexual assault, forced child marriage and bride-burning, and legal exclusion from
parity.
Its per capita income (in terms of purchasing power parity), just one-fifth of Japan’s in 1970, amounts to almost 95% of Japan’s today.
Nor would it be proper, where the gravity and scale of crimes materially differ, to charge all sides in a conflict in order to preserve a false sense of
parity.
However, a third approach was possible: to raise the poverty line with the new PPP indices so that the incidence of global poverty remained unchanged (because PPP arguably tells us about
parity
across countries and should not change the absolute level of global poverty).
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