Implications for energy and climate-change policies of using purchasing-power-parity-based GDP

摘要: Abstract There is a much better correlation between energy use and GNP or GDP when the latter are calculated using purchasing-power parity (PPP) rather than market-exchange rates (MER). Using PPP-adjusted also shows that larger developing countries of world not, viewed overall, less energy-efficient their industrialized country counterparts. The per capita GDPs typically about 1/10 to 1/4 those O.E.C.D. countries, on basis, in range 1/80 an MER-basis. This result may have major implications for future requirements associated emissions CO2, formulation policies addressing global climate change.