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The best measure to assess a country’s economic growth is
Options:
A .  gross domestic product at current prices
B .  gross national product at current prices
C .  per capita income at current prices
D .  per capita income at constant prices
Answer: Option D
Answer: (d)
Gross domestic product (GDP) is the market value of all officially recognized final goods and services produced within a country in a given period of time. Per capita income or average income or income per person is the mean income within an economic aggregate, such as a country or city.
It is calculated by taking a measure of all sources of income in the aggregate (such as GDP or Gross National Income) and dividing it by the total population.
It does not attempt to reflect the distribution of income or wealth. Per capita income is often used as average income, a measure of the wealth of the population of a nation, particularly in comparison to other nations.
It is usually expressed in terms of a commonly used international currency such as the Euro or United States dollar, and is useful because it is widely known, easily calculated from readily available GDP and population estimates, and produces a useful statistic for comparison.

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