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Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is the value of all final goods and services produced

  1. A.by the residents of a country, wherever they may be
  2. B.within the domestic territory of a country in a year
  3. C.by the government sector alone in a year
  4. D.including intermediate goods used in production

Correct answer

B. within the domestic territory of a country in a year

Explanation

The correct answer is B. GDP measures production inside the borders of a country in one accounting year, whoever the producer may be. A foreign firm making cars in India adds to India's GDP, because the test is the place of production and not the nationality of the producer.

Option A describes Gross National Product, which counts what the residents of a country produce anywhere in the world; the two differ by net factor income from abroad. Option C is wrong because GDP covers the whole economy, private and public, organised and, as far as it can be estimated, unorganised. Option D contradicts the definition: only final goods are counted, since including intermediate goods would count the same value more than once, as with wheat, flour and bread. This idea of value added at each stage is the basis of the product method of measurement.

Read the full article: GDP and National Income: Concepts, Methods and Formulas

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Q3.Indian EconomyMedium

Who made the first estimate of the national income of India?

  1. A.V. K. R. V. Rao
  2. B.P. C. Mahalanobis
  3. C.Dadabhai Naoroji
  4. D.D. R. Gadgil
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Correct answer: C. Dadabhai Naoroji

He made the earliest estimate of India's national income in the nineteenth century and used it to argue that British rule was draining wealth out of the country, putting the average income at about twenty rupees a person a year.

Q5.Indian EconomyMedium

National income at factor cost is obtained from national income at market price by

  1. A.adding indirect taxes and subtracting subsidies
  2. B.subtracting indirect taxes and adding subsidies
  3. C.adding both indirect taxes and subsidies
  4. D.subtracting both indirect taxes and subsidies
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Correct answer: B. subtracting indirect taxes and adding subsidies

A market price contains the indirect taxes the buyer pays, which never reach the producer, so they must be taken out.