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Final Grade weight: 5% I. Key Economic Indicators a. Gross Domestic Product
Define in your own words the GDP? What are the various versions of GDP? Explain them.
1. The money value of all the final products and services produced within a country’s border calculated in a specific time period is GDP.
2. GDP can be calculated by production approach, income approach and expenditure approach, which should, in principle give the same result.
The most direct way is production approach, which sums up the total outputs of every class of enterprise.
The expenditure approach assumes that all the products are bought by someone. Therefore, the value of the total products equals to people’s total expenditures in buying things.
The income approach works on the principle that the product’s value equals the incomes of the productive factors, so GDP=the total producer’s incomes.
For example, in expenditure approach, GDP is calculated as all the private consumption in a nation’s economy added by government spending, and added by business