Groos domestic product (GDP )
GDP Gross domestic product (GDP) is the total monetary or market value of all the finished goods and services produced within a country’s borders in a specific time period. Current GDP of India is $2.10 trillion. As a broad measure of overall domestic production, it functions as a comprehensive scorecard of a given country’s economic health. The concept of GDP was first proposed in 1937 in a report to the U.S. Congress in response to the Great Depression, conceived of and presented by an economist at the National Bureau of Economic Research, Simon Kuznets. At the time, the preeminent system of measurement was GNP. After the Bretton Woods conference in 1944, GDP was widely adopted as the standard means for measuring national economies, although ironically, the U.S. continued to use GNP as its official measure of economic welfare until 1991, after which it switched to GDP.Gross domestic product (GDP) is the monetary value of all finished goods and services made within...