Economics Questions and Answers

Primary sector; the sector of the economy concerned with or relating to primary industry. Examples include mining, quarrying, farming, fishing and forestry, all of which produce raw materials that can be processed in to a finished product. 

Token money; money where the face value of notes or coins is unrelated to the value of the material of which they are composed. In economics, Token money, or Token, is money that has little intrinsic value compared to its face value.

The token is a small amount of money (compared to the market value of theproperty) that has to be paid by the buyer as an indication of serious intent to purchase a property.

In national income accounting, net national income (NNI) is the gross domestic product plus net receipts of wages, salaries, and property income from abroad, minus the depreciation of fixed capital assets through wear and tear and obsolescence.

NNI = GDP + factor income received from abroad - depreciation of Fixed Capital.

Industrial locations are complex in nature. These are influenced by the availability of many factors. Some of them are: raw material, land, water, labor, capital, power, transport, and market. For ease of convenience, we can classify the location factors into two: geographical factors and non-geographical factors.

The most important distinguishing point between these two is that while we calculate GDP, we take into consideration whatever is produced within the local borders of the country and so it includes the goods and services produced by the foreign nationals also but if we talk about GNP, only the production done by the country’s citizens is considered whether they are inside or outside the country and the contribution of foreign citizens are completely excluded.

Net income from abroad is income earned by any person {including Artificial} i.e citizen of that country, earned even outside political boundaries i.e land + 20 nautical miles of water. This is GNP. Income earned by anyone {including foreign citizen} within the country is GDP.