Purchasing Power Parity Tells Us ________

question 189

Multiple Choice

Purchasing power parity tells us ________.

• A) what a unit of local currency can buy in its home country
• B) the value of goods and services that can be purchased with one unit of a country's currency
• C) the relative ability of two countries' currencies to buy the same basket of goods in those two countries
• D) what a currency can actually buy in real terms

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