Categories: Economics

GDP – Gross Domestic Product

&NewLine;<&excl;-- WP QUADS Content Ad Plugin v&period; 2&period;0&period;95 -->&NewLine;<div class&equals;"quads-location quads-ad1" id&equals;"quads-ad1" style&equals;"float&colon;left&semi;margin&colon;0px 0px 0px 0&semi;">&NewLine;&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"justify">The widespread measure of the total output in a country’s economy is called  GDP &lpar;Gross Domestic Product&rpar;&period; GDP is basically a measure of the market value of all services and final goods produced in a country during a year&period; It as well is equal to the sum of the value added to the product at every phase of production by all the industries within a country&comma; plus the taxes and subtraction of the subsidies on products&comma; in the period of a year&period; It is also equal to the total amount of the income generated by production in a country in a year&period; We will find that there are two ways to measure GDP<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"justify">•    <strong>Nominal GDP<&sol;strong> &colon; Measured in actual market prices means the inflation factor is not involved in nominal GDP&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;•    <strong>Real GDP<&sol;strong> &colon; Calculated on constant or unvaried  prices&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"justify">Real GDP is the most widely used measure of output of an economy&semi; it provides a carefully monitored pulse of any nation’s economy&period; Even though&comma; short term fluctuations may occur at different occasions regarding the business cycles&comma; but advanced economies generally show a steady hand at long-term growth in the real GDP which also results in an improvement in the living standards&comma; the process is termed as &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Economic Growth”&period; There is a term in economics &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Potential GDP”&colon; which signifies the maximum sustainable level of production that the economy can produce&period; Inflation tends to rise when the total output surpasses potential output&comma; and if the opposite happens and the total output is less than the potential output&comma; then it leads to unemployment&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"justify">Potential output is usually determined by the economy’s productive capacity&comma; which depends upon the inputs available i-e capital&comma; labor&comma; land&comma; entrepreneurs etc&period; and also the economy’s technological efficiency&period; Due to the fact that inputs such as labor&comma; capital and the technological level change quite slowly&comma; the affect of these factors on the potential GDP is steady growth&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"justify">The formulae for calculating a country’s GDP&colon;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"justify">GDP &equals; C &plus; I &plus; G &plus; &lpar;X − M&rpar;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<&excl;-- WP QUADS Content Ad Plugin v&period; 2&period;0&period;95 -->&NewLine;<div class&equals;"quads-location quads-ad2" id&equals;"quads-ad2" style&equals;"float&colon;none&semi;margin&colon;0px 0 0px 0&semi;text-align&colon;center&semi;">&NewLine;&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&NewLine;<h3>Components of GDP<&sol;h3>&NewLine;<p>Following are the components to measure the Gross domestic product&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h4><strong>Consumption &lpar;C&rpar;<&sol;strong><&sol;h4>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"justify">It usually denotes the private consumption&comma; such as the household expenditures &lpar;food&comma; rent etc&rpar;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>Investment &lpar;I&rpar;<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"justify">This is the amount that firms and some households invest as capital&period; Such as spending of households in making new houses&comma; business firm doing a construction on a certain field for its business operations&period;&NewLine;<&excl;-- WP QUADS Content Ad Plugin v&period; 2&period;0&period;95 -->&NewLine;<div class&equals;"quads-location quads-ad3" id&equals;"quads-ad3" style&equals;"float&colon;none&semi;margin&colon;0px&semi;">&NewLine;&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&NewLine;

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