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Last week India surprised all the experts by recalculating GDP growth for the fiscal year ended March. Using a new calculation method, India’s economy expanded 6.9% that year, well above the 4.7% growth the country had announced earlier.
India can revised its figure from the past as well.
Even the Treasury & Labor departments revise previous quarter and sometimes previous year's GDP and Employment. Its nothing new.
With the same number of people under poverty, same high child mortality rate.
Again the US does the same thing. DOW JONES is on a high rebound with X% growth. Ever wonder how and why? Dow Jones regulates who can be posted on it's floor. Just like how each country decides how to list what income is above or below the poverty line.
There are plenty of people in America who are not well off but the government does recognize that they live in poverty.
To Indians GDP figure is just a political tool.
GDP is a political tool of every nation.
GDP is calculated using the following well established formula.
Y = C + I + G + NX
Y= GDP
C= Consumer Spending
I = Investments
G= Government Spending
N= Net Exports (Total Exports - Imports)
@by78 the article says a new calculating method. Can you shed the formula used?
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