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Terms of trade (TOT) is a measure of how much imports an economy can get for a unit of exported goods. For example, if an economy is only exporting apples and only importing oranges, then the terms of trade are simply the price of apples divided by the price of oranges — in other words, how many oranges can be obtained for a unit of apples.
In a direct-import program, the retailer bypasses the local supplier (colloquial: "middle-man") and buys the final product directly from the manufacturer, possibly saving in added cost data on the value of imports and their quantities often broken down by detailed lists of products are available in statistical collections on international trade ...
A sustained, long-term decrease in economic activity in one or more economies. It is a more severe economic downturn than a recession, which is a slowdown in economic activity over the course of a normal business cycle. deregulation The process of removing or reducing economic regulations, or the total repeal of governmental regulation of the ...
Balance of trade is the difference between the monetary value of a nation's exports and imports of goods over a certain time period. [1] Sometimes services are also considered but the official IMF definition only considers goods. The balance of trade measures a flow variable of exports and imports over a given period of time. The notion of the ...
Three strategies have been used to obtain the market values of all the goods and services produced: the product (or output) method, the expenditure method, and the income method. The product method looks at the economy on an industry-by-industry basis. The total output of the economy is the sum of the outputs of every industry.
M (imports) represents gross imports. Imports are subtracted since imported goods will be included in the terms G, I, or C, and must be deducted to avoid counting foreign supply as domestic. C, I, and G are expenditures on final goods and services; expenditures on intermediate goods and services do not count.
where C denotes consumption, I denotes investment, G denotes government spending, and NX represents net exports (exports minus imports: X – M). This formula uses the expenditure method of national income accounting. When net national income is adjusted for natural resource depletion, it is called Adjusted Net National Income, expressed as
834.10 Rental income of persons with CCA: 153.80 Corporate profits with IVA and CCA [note 4] 1,021.10 Net interest and miscellaneous payments: 543.00 Taxes on production and imports: 798.10 Less: subsidies: −46.70 Business current transfer payments (net) 77.70 Current surplus of government enterprises: 9.50 Equals: national income (NI) 9,679.60