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- From: bgoffe@seq.uncwil.edu (Bill Goffe)
- Subject: Re: GDP and GNP
- Message-ID: <1993Jan8.223758.13567@seq.uncwil.edu>
- Organization: Univ. of North Carolina @ Wilmington
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- Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 22:37:58 GMT
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- beers@theory.TC.Cornell.EDU (Jim Beers) writes:
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- >I have an elementary question,
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- >What is the difference between GDP and GNP?
- >Why is everyone talking about GDP these days, rather then GNP.
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- GDP is the value of all output in a country (even if it is produced
- by a foreign firm in the U.S., say), while GNP (for the U.S.) is the
- value of output by U.S. firms. Thus, it includes output by U.S. firms
- outside the U.S. and does not include output by non-U.S. firms in the
- U.S. Thus, GDP better measures what is happening in the U.S.
-
- The change from GNP to GNP just recently occured in the U.S. I could
- be wrong here, but I think that the U.S. is among the last to do so.
- GDP if pretty much used around the world.
-
- Bill Goffe
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