Talk:Economy of the Republic of the Congo

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Can someone put in something about the recent troubles with the World Bank? Chadlupkes

[edit] Purchasing Power Parity

Recently I was looking at the ratios of List of countries by GDP (PPP) / List of countries by GDP (nominal). I think this number should give a rough sense of how much "stuff" (in a standard "basket of goods") you can buy in a given country for a U.S. dollar. At the top of the list are "third world" countries like Myanmar; at the bottom of the list are mostly "rich countries" - Qatar, Norway, Kuwait, the Republic of Congo, Denmark, and Switzerland. The Republic of Congo placement seems surprising, especially since this number comes out almost nine times higher for the adjoining Democratic Republic of the Congo. I'd take this naively to imply that if someone in the Republic of Congo crossed the border, exchanged money, and purchased goods there, that he'd come back with nine times more stuff than he could get at home. Or more likely, that there's something embarrassingly wrong with these statistics. Mike Serfas 02:45, 3 June 2007 (UTC)