WAR-rior
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This is precisely the reason PPP is meaningless. PPP is useful only when it comes to the domestic service sector (hair cut, massage, for examples). However, in international trade, we do not use PPP value as a currency. When you compare country to country, you compare the national economic output in relation to each other set by global value standard (for example, a laptop will cost $1000 dollars in real money not PPP money in China, US, or India) , and the best measure is the trade prices of goods, and thus we use nominal GDP set by currency exchange rate.
Dude, PPP to nominal GDP results in a Multipler factor. this factor is again division of (PPP exchange rate/ Exchange rate) ie. (p/e). Now what u said was bout 'e'........Wud u care to talk bout 'p' too.
Please do that, then we will talk more.