2012‚ it was reported that Singapore ’s GDP contracted by 1.1% on a Quarter-on-Quarter seasonally-adjusted annualized basis‚ compared to the 9.4% expansion in the preceding quarter. The weakened growth momentum in Q2 was mainly due to a sequential contraction in the manufacturing sector. The sector declined by 6.0% reversing the 20.9% expansion in the preceding quarter. Annex A Singapore is an open economy with high trade to GDP ratio of 2.3 times (GDP 2011 was $326B‚ whereas total trade value
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| THE CONTRUBUTION OF AGRICULTURE‚ INDUSTRY‚ CONSTRUCTION AND SERVICES IN GDP GROWTH | | | | 1/25/2013 | | Table of Contents 1. Introduction 3 2. Literature Review 4 3. Multiple regression 6 3.1 Descriptive Statistics 7 3.2 Correlations 7 3.3 Regression 9 3.4 Calculations 10 3.5 Statistical significance of the coefficients of the model: 11 3.5.1 The importance of Constant a0 coefficient 11 3.5.2 The importance of a1 coefficient (Agriculture) 11 3.5
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economy. For many developing countries‚ such as China‚ people grow and eat on their own products. A large part of the production of the agricultural sector is not traded and therefore does not appear in national income statistics. Hence the value of nominal output in reality is much higher. Again‚ national income statistics underestimates the true size of national income and the standard of living of a country. Apart from national income‚ health indicators can also measure the standard of living
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GDP or Gross Domestic Product is defined as the total market value of all final good and service produced in a given year. It is a simple formula that adds together personal consumption expenditures‚ gross private domestic investment‚ government purchases‚ and Net Exports‚ otherwise expressed as GDP= C+ Ig+G+Xn. The Social Security number was never supposed to be a number for identification. Just the same‚ GDP is being used for a purpose other than what it was designed for. It was not to be an indicator
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market and saving rate on GDP growth. The result indicates that the lagged values of both stock index and saving rate don’t have influence on the current value of GDP. However‚ we find that the lagged value of stock index does have impact on saving rate. We conclude that one of the most important reason lead to this result should due to small sample size and data of saving rate still remains non-stationary under the condition of I(1). Key words: vector autoregressive‚ GDP‚ stationary‚ saving rate
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of items impacts GDP The textbook defines Gross domestic product (GDP) as “The market value of all final goods and services produced within a country during a specific period” (Gwartney pg. 131). GDP is a tool to measure a country’s economic growth. The term re-sale is defined as “The act of selling something that you have bought” (Merriam-Webster). The resale of items are not included in the GDP because they do not involve current production‚ they were already counted in the GDP during the time
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Introduction: When making an investment in a company‚ investors want to make sure the company is well managed. Because the differences between effective tax rates of companies of equal size that perform similar functions in the same geographical region are generally due to managerial decisions‚ a company with the lower effective tax rate could have the better administration and therefore be a better investment. The statutory corporate tax rate is the rate that is imposed on taxable income of corporations
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The articles are talking about Inflation and the effects of it on the GDP of the United States compared to China. The first article is called “Catching the Eagle”. In December 2010‚ the Economist introduced a chart that made prediction of when China’s economy will overtake America’s economy. When the chart was first introduced in 2010‚ the Economist included a set of default assumptions for the decade ahead. They assumed that growth would average 7.75% in China over the subsequent ten years and 2
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the fact that it is the host country of the 2022 FIFA World Cup. Qatar has been listed as number one in the world for the highest GDP per capita by the World Bank‚ CIA World Factbook‚ and the International Monetary Fund. Although a high GDP will sound attractive‚ the question of whether GDP truly is a measure of prosperity comes to mind and casts doubt. Despite its high GDP per capita‚ Qatar does not have the best quality of life as its economy is highly based on a nonreusuable resource and its government
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To determine the impact of economic growth or GDP in the Sri Lanka‚ a simple econometric framework was adopted by Abaid (2013)‚ where in his study the function model which he derived from production function framework: Where: Y denotes the estimated output level of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) per capita growth. The L denotes the amount of labor force of the country and the K denotes the domestically financed capital stock-proxied bt the Gross Capital Formation (GCF). A constant technology
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