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Saturday, July 25, 2015

Understand the meaning of National Income

National income is the monetary value of all final goods and services produce in a country with in a year. It refers to the total money income of the country in a particular year. National income is the aggregate of income received by all the individuals and sectors of the economy during a given period of time specially one year. Moreover, national income is the summation of income received by all factor of production in the form of rent, wage, interest and profit in a particular year.
             NI = ΣY = Y1+Y2+…………………+Yn
Where
             NI = National Income
             Y1 = Income received by the 1st individual or sector of the economy
             Y2 = Income received by 2nd individual or sector of the economy.
             Yn = Income received by nth individual or sector of the economy.

Meaning and Definition of National Income

Marshall's Definition

According to Marshall, "The labour and capital of a country acting upon its natural resources produce annually a certain net aggregate of commodities, material and immaterial including services of all kinds. This is the net annual income or revenue of a country or the national dividend."

Pigou's Definition

According to Pigou, "National income is that part of objective income of the community, including of course income derived from abroad which can be measured in money."

Fisher's Definition

According to Fisher, "The national dividend or income consists solely of services as received by ultimate consumers, whether from their material or from their human environments. Thus, a piano or an overcoat made for me this year is not a part of this year's income, but an addition to capital. Only the services rendered to me during this year by these things are income."

Modern Definition of National Income

According to Simon Kuznets, “National income is the net output of commodities and services flowing during the year from the country’s productive system to the hands of ultimate consumers.”
United Nations defined NI in three aspects:
(1)        Net National Product
(2)        Sum of Distributive shares
(3)        Net national expenditure
World Bank, “GNP measures the total domestic and foreign value added claimed by residents. It comprises GDP plus net income from abroad which is the income received by residents for factor services less similar payments made to non-residents who contributed in the production of goods and services to the domestic economy.”

Various Concept of National Income

Gross Domestic Product (GDP at MP)

Gross Domestic product is the money value of all final goods and services produced within the domestic territory of a country during a year. In other words, it is product of market price and final value of goods and services.
             GDPMP = Pi Qi
Where,
             Pi = price of ith commodity
             Qi = quantity of ith commodity
             MP = market price
In expenditure approach,
             GDP = C + I + G + (X – M)
Where,
             C = private household consumption expenditure
             I = private domestic investment expenditure
             G = Government expenditure
             X – M = Net export (X = export, M = import)

Features of GDP

·           GDP is money value of total goods and services produced within the country.
·           GDP includes the value of only final goods and services produced during a period of time, basically a year.
·           The value of final goods and services is calculated at the current market price. That is why GDP is known as GDP at market price.
·           GDP includes only those goods and services which have market value and which are brought in the market for sales.
·           GDP does not include transfer payment like pension, unemployment allowance. It is because they do not have any contribution in production process.
·           GDP does not include capital gains.

Gross National Product at Market Price (GDP at MP)

Gross national product at market price is the money value of all final goods and services produced in a country during a year plus net factor income from abroad.
             GNP = GDP + NFIA
Where,
             NFIA = Net Factor Income from Abroad
             NFIA = Re – Fe
Where,
             Re = earning of resident people from foreign country
             Fe = earning of foreign people in domestic country
\         GNP   = GDP + NFIA
                         = C + I + G + (X – M) + (Re – Fe)

Net National Product (NNP)

At market price is gross national product at market price less depreciation.
             NNP  = GNP – Depreciation
                         = GDP + NFI A – Depreciation
                         = C + I + G + (X – M) – (Re – Fe) – Depreciation

Personal Income (PI)

Personal income can be defined as the sum of all kinds of income received by the individuals from all sources of incomes. It is all possible income before direct taxes. Personal income includes wages and salaries, fees and commission, bonus, fringe, benefits, dividends, interest earning and earning from self employment. It also includes transfer income like pension, family allowances, unemployment allowances, sickness allowances, old age benefits and social security benefits. Personal income also includes the incomes earned from illegal means, e.g., brige, smuggling, cheating, theft, etc.

Disposable Income (DI)

Disposable income is that part of the personal income which the households can spend. It refers to purchasing power of the household. It is the part of income after deduction of tax.
             Disposable income (Yd)        = Personal income (Y) – Direct tax (T)
\         Yd = Y – T
             Disposable income Yd = Consumption expenditure – Saving
\         Yd = C + S

Private Income

Broadly, all personal income is private income. However, the private income is the difference between net domestic product and public income.
             Total private income = Net domestic product – Public income

Per Capital Income PCI

It is the ratio between total money income of nation and total number of population.

             PCI = 

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