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     Glossary of Terms
 

Economic Accounts 

Constant Prices (at constant prices) – valuation of transactions, wherein the
               influence of price changes from the base year to the current
              
year has been removed.

Gross Domestic Product – the value of all goods and services produced
              domestically; the sum of gross value added of all resident
              institutional units engaged in production (plus any taxes, and minus
              any subsidies, on products not included in the values of their
              outputs).

Gross Regional Domestic Product  - aggregate of the gross value added or
              income from each industry or economic activity of the regional
              economy.

Gross National Product – the Gross Domestic Product adjusted with the net
             factor income from the rest of the world. It refers to the aggregate
             earnings of the factors of production (nationals) plus indirect taxes
            (net) and capital consumption allowance.

Gross Value Added – the difference between gross output and 
            
intermediate inputs. Gross outputs of a production unit during a
             given period is equal to the gross value of the goods and services
             produced during the period and recorded at the moment they are
             produced, regardless of whether or not there is a change of
            ownership. Intermediate inputs refer to the value of goods and
            services used in the production process during the accounting period.

Personal Consumption Expenditures - consist of actual and imputed
            expenditures of households for the purpose of acquiring individual
            consumption goods and services.

Source: 1993 System of National Accounts developed by the Commission
             of the European Communities, International Monetary Fund,
             Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development,
             United Nations and World Bank. 
     

Glossary of Terms    


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