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- From: tamada@cheshire.oxy.edu (Michael K. Tamada)
- Subject: Re: GDP and GNP
- Message-ID: <1993Jan9.000152.15495@cheshire.oxy.edu>
- Organization: Occidental College, Los Angeles, CA 90041 USA.
- References: <1993Jan8.015030.23831@oracle.us.oracle.com> <1993Jan8.215117.23284@tc.cornell.edu> <1993Jan8.223758.13567@seq.uncwil.edu>
- Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 00:01:52 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan8.223758.13567@seq.uncwil.edu> bgoffe@seq.uncwil.edu (Bill Goffe) writes:
-
- >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.
-
- This is correct. The 1992 Economic Report of the President has a
- very good description and analysis of economic statistics in Chapter 7.
- The US has been using National Income and Product Accounts (NIPA),
- for which GNP was a primary statistic. The United Nations uses the
- System of National Accounts (SNA), which focuses on GDP. The US is
- going to gradually switch to SNA during the 1990s.
-
- --Mike Tamada
- Occidental College
- tamada@oxy.edu
-