Price Measurement and Mismeasurement in Central Asia /

The vertiginous increases in the overall price level and dramatic swings in relative prices experienced by Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan since the onset of the transition rendered their traditional Paasche retail price indices obsolete and called for the i...

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Auteur principal: Koen, Vincent
Format: Revue
Langue:English
Publié: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 1995.
Collection:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 1995/082
Accès en ligne:Full text available on IMF
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