What are ICP’s accomplishments to date?
The ICP has developed from a research effort in a few countries to a global program and is now the largest and most complex statistical undertaking involving six regions and more than 150 countries. An independent evaluation, commissioned by the UN Statistical Commission in 1998, concluded that there is no alternative to PPP data for cross-country economic comparisons or for poverty measurement at the global level. The ICP is therefore contributing towards international efforts to understand factors that affect levels of economic and social development across countries on an ongoing basis.
