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Q.Define Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and Gross National Product (GNP). How is GNP derived from GDP?

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Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is the market value of all final goods and services produced within a country's domestic territory during a year, regardless of who owns the factors of production used to produce them — it is a territorial concept.

Gross National Product (GNP) is a residency-based concept: it values output/income earned by the normal residents of a country, whether they earn it at home or abroad. GNP is derived from GDP by adding Net Factor Income from Abroad (NFIA) — income that residents earn abroad (wages of citizens working overseas, profits/interest/dividends earned on investments abroad) minus income that non-residents earn within the domestic economy and repatriate:

GNP=GDP+NFIAGNP = GDP + NFIA

For India, outflows to foreign investors operating within the country have generally been somewhat larger than the factor income Indian residents earn abroad, so India's NFIA has typically been a small negative number, making GNP marginally smaller than GDP in most recent years.

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GDP = output within India's borders; GNP = GDP + Net Factor Income from Abroad, i.e. output/income attributable to India's own residents wherever earned.

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