6. Limitations of GDP Although GDP is a reasonably good measure of a nation's output, it does not necessarily include all transactions and production for that nation.
Which of the following scenarios are either not accounted for or measured inaccurately by either the income or the expenditure methods of calculating
GDP for the United States? Check all that apply.
Funds spent by city governments to renovate their buildings
The costs of overfishing and other overly intensive uses of resources
The variety of goods available to consumers
The import and sale of illegal drugs from South America
When a U. S. company purchases and imports electronic parts from China to use to produce MP3 players within the United States, this purchase
increases the
component of GDP while also
net exports by the same amount. Therefore, the
purchase of electronic parts from China causes
in US GDP.