Cards (12)

  • Constant prices
    Constant prices tell us that the data has been inflation adjusted.
  • Economic Cycle
    Variations in the annual rate of growth of real national output (GDP) over time.
  • Economic development
    Long run improvements in broad measures of income per capita, education and health outcomes and reductions in extreme poverty, hardship and inequality.
  • Economic growth
    An increase in the real value of goods and services produced as measured by the annual % change in real GDP. Also, a long-run increase in a country’s productive capacity.
  • Economic stability
    When growth, prices and unemployment do not change much from one year to another.
  • Full capacity output
    Level of GDP where all available factor inputs are fully employed.
  • GNI
    Income generated from resources owned by inhabitants and businesses of a country.
  • Gross Domestic Product (GDP)

    Total monetary value of output, spending and factor incomes generated within the geographical boundaries of a country in a given time period.
  • Macroeconomic performance
    The overall performance measured by changes in output, investment, prices, jobs, trade and living standards and also the distribution of income
    and wealth.
  • National income
    The total income earned by all factors of production in an economy in a given time frame.
  • Nominal GDP
    Monetary value of all goods and services produced expressed at current prices (i.e. unadjusted for the effects of inflation).
  • Nominal income
    The level of income in a given time period (e.g. a year) which is unadjusted for the effects of inflation, also known as money income.