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.chapter two.
Economic Activity
Question | Answer |
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What does GDP stand for? | Gross Domestic product |
What is GDP per capita? | It is an output per person measuring economic growth. |
What is productivity? | The production output in relation to a unit of input, such as a worker. |
What is prosperity? | A period in which most people who want to work are working, businesses produces good and services in record numbers, wages are good, and the rate of GDP grwoth increases. |
What is recession? | It is a period in which demand begins to decrease, businesses lower production, unemployment begins to rise, and GDP growth slows. |
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. |
What is inflation? | Increase in general level of prices. |
What is a price index? | A number that compares prices in one year with some earlier base year. |
What is deflation? | It means a decrease in the general level of prices. |