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economic activity
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What is Gross domestic product or GDP? | It is the total dollar value of all final goods and sercices produced in a country during one year. |
| What is GDP per capita? | It is the output per person in a given year |
| What is Unemployment rate? | It Is the porting of people in the labor force who are not working. |
| What is productivity? | It is the production output in relation to a unit of input. |
| What is personal income? | It is salaries and wages as well as investment income and government payments to individuals |
| What is retail sales? | It is the sales of durable and nondurable goods bought by consumers. |
| What is prosperity? | It is a period in which most people who want to work are working, business produce goods and services in record numbers, wages are good, and the rate of GDP growth increases |
| What is recession? | It is a period in which demand begins to decrease, business lower production, umemployment begins to rise, and GDP growth slows for two or mor quarters |
| What is depression? | It is a phase marked by a prolonged period of high unemployment, weak consumer sales, and business failures. |
| What is recovery? | It is the phase in which unemployment begins to decrease, demand for goods and services increases, and GDP begins to rise again. |