Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- abbreviation gross national product
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- noun economics
Gross National Product
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun former measure of the United States economy; the total market value of goods and services produced by all citizens and capital during a given period (usually 1 yr)
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Examples
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Not accounted for within GNP is the loss of natural capital: soil, forests, water and wildlife.
Do you Live to Work? Ecopreneurs Use their Green Business to Make a Life.
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Economic growth is measured with what they call the GNP, or Gross National Product.
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The disparity between GDP and GNP is due to the strength of exports, the bank added.
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Another radical thought: send "problem" bears as well - nice alternative to being shot in GNP due to "human interaction."
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I would much rather use trillions of tax payer dollars to pay for bombs that are dropped on countries who's GNP is lower than the city I live in.
Leading Democrat concedes sticker shock of health care costs
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Another radical thought: send "problem" bears as well - nice alternative to being shot in GNP due to "human interaction."
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If, OTOH, the government chooses to increase taxes, a decrease in GNP would accompany the impact of that increase on consumption.
The Budget Outlook, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
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When the USA, bears nearly alone the costs of all the world policing, and still enables and allows its workers who are acknowedly to be among the very hardest workers of any world, to be victimized by a $500 Billion a year foreign trade deficit (which more nearly represents a $1 Trillion sacifice in GNP), then it simply follows that there are the following problems created or exasperated in America:
The Free Trade Case, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
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Free market figures shows that overall GNP is growing around the world, but between the lines of data we see that the rich are getting richer while the poor are getting poorer.
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Instead of building the country up through these kinds of investments, this leadership has looked to short-term GNP performance.
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