PPPs for policy making: a visual guide to using data from the ICP - Chapter 9: Infrastructure

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Information and communication technology

Ensuring that all parts of society can access information and communication technology (ICT) underpins the Broadband Commission’s 2025 goals for Sustainable Development. Goal 2 states that entry-level broadband services be made affordable in developing countries at less than 2 percent of monthly GNI per capita. Policy makers can monitor affordability through data on the price, expressed in PPP terms, of mobile-voice services, mobile data and fixed broadband for countries and regions by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) (map 9.2 and figure 9.4). Furthermore, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) provides PPP-based prices for other mobile and fixed broadband baskets reflecting the range of options available in its member states.

The ICP collects price and expenditure data under the category of Communications, which includes, among other items, wireless telephone services, including voice and video calls, messages, and the cost of packages, and internet access provision services (figure 9.5).

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Introduction

Uses and limitations of Purchasing Power Parities

Chapter 1: The size of the economy and price levels

• Size of the economy
• Per capita measures
• Price levels
• Subnational analyses

Chapter 2: Poverty and inequality

• Poverty
• Inequality and shared prosperity

Chapter 3: Trade and competitiveness

• Competitiveness
• Market convergence
• Productivity

Chapter 4: Labor costs, wages, and social safety nets

• Labor costs
• Wages
• Social safety nets

Chapter 5: Food and nutrition

• Food security and nutrition
• Food consumption

Chapter 6: Health

• Health expenditures
• Health outcomes

Chapter 7: Education

• Education expenditures
• Education outcomes

Chapter 8: Energy and climate

• Energy efficiency
• Emissions and climate change

Chapter 9: Infrastructure

• Investment
• Transport
• Information and communication technology
• Research and development

Chapter 10: Human Development

• Human Development Index
• Gender Development Index
• Better Life Index

Chapter 11: Administrative uses

• Administrative uses

Technical note

• Presentation of data
• Concepts and definitions
• ICP classification of expenditures and indicators
• Further resources

Annex

References