National Income As An Indicator Of Standard Of Living
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Development Economics: Evaluate the validity of using National Income
statistics as an indicator of standard of living and as a comparison of
economic development between different countries.
National Income is an indicator of standard of living measured by output,
expenditure or income in one ye ....
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.... standard of living in a country. This is why this statistic is
widely used in the USA and Japan.
However, there are some criticisms of National Income statistics. The
first major criticism is that of accuracy due to difficulties in the
measurement. E.g. Second hand deals go unregistered. The second criticism
which is linked to this is that sales in the black economy will also go
unregistered even though they may have significant effects (both good and
bad) on a personÕs standard of living ....
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