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The
Fifth Workshop on the International Comparison Program
for Western Asia was held at the Meridien Commodore
Hotel in Beirut during the period 17-20 December 2005.
Twenty-four representatives from eleven ESCWA member
States, including eight National Coordinators
participated in the workshop. In addition, the World
Bank ICP Deputy Global manager, a World Bank Consultant
and the ICP team at ESCWA participated and contributed
to the workshop. The objective of the Workshop was to
bring together the ICP national teams with the ICP
regional office and the World Bank to discuss price
collection of the second quarter and steps that need to
be taken to ensure the soundness of the remaining
quarterly data. In addition, the meeting was set out to
achieve the following goals:
1.
discuss the time table for the remaining ICP round and
the future of ICP;
2. discuss the overall regional achievements of the
program-plan since the last meeting at the fourth
workshop in May 2005;
3. assess the progress of each country regarding price
collection;
4. discuss with the participants the importance of data
editing and validation and PPP’s;
5. review all second quarter data submitted by countries
and discuss joint solutions for problematic products and
common problems faced by member countries
The
meeting achieved its objective of reviewing all second
quarter data and identifying common sources of errors
and methods of dealing with them. Countries were
provided with enough feedback to be able to correct data
for the third and fourth quarters. With hard work from
the Global, Regional and Country offices the data and
could be corrected on time and the Western Asia region
would be able to abide by the global timeline.
Agenda
List of Participants
Papers Presented
Meeting Report
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