Under the expenditure method, GDP is the sum of consumption, investment, government expenditure and
- A.exports minus imports
- B.imports minus exports
- C.total exports only
- D.depreciation
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Explanation
The correct answer is A, exports minus imports, a figure called net exports. Exports are goods produced at home and sold abroad, so they belong in domestic production. Imports are produced abroad but are already included in the spending of households, firms and government, so they must be taken out to leave only what the country itself produced.
Option B reverses the subtraction and would wrongly reduce GDP whenever a country exports more than it imports. Option C counts exports while ignoring imports and therefore overstates domestic production. Option D, depreciation, plays no part in this identity; it appears only when a gross figure is converted into a net one. The identity in short form is: GDP equals C plus I plus G plus net exports.
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Practice Questions
View allGross Domestic Product (GDP) is the value of all final goods and services produced
- A.by the residents of a country, wherever they may be
- B.within the domestic territory of a country in a year
- C.by the government sector alone in a year
- D.including intermediate goods used in production
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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.
Read the full explanation →Gross National Product (GNP) is equal to which of the following?
- A.GDP + net factor income from abroad
- B.GDP - depreciation
- C.GDP + indirect taxes
- D.GDP - subsidies
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Net factor income from abroad is the income residents earn outside the country minus the income foreigners earn inside it.
Read the full explanation →Net National Product (NNP) is obtained by subtracting which item from Gross National Product?
- A.Indirect taxes
- B.Depreciation
- C.Subsidies
- D.Net factor income from abroad
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Machines, buildings and vehicles wear out as they are used, and the value of that wear and tear must be set aside if the country is to keep its capital intact.
Read the full explanation →Who made the first estimate of the national income of India?
- A.V. K. R. V. Rao
- B.P. C. Mahalanobis
- C.Dadabhai Naoroji
- D.D. R. Gadgil
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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.
Read the full explanation →The National Income Committee, set up by the Government of India in 1949, was chaired by
- A.P. C. Mahalanobis
- B.Dadabhai Naoroji
- C.V. K. R. V. Rao
- D.C. Rangarajan
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The committee was appointed in 1949 to prepare official estimates of national income after independence, and it submitted its final report in 1954.
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