The expenditure apporach to calculating GDP entails summing together wages, interest, rents, profits, indirect business taxes, and depreciation. True or False?
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Assume you have the following data for a hypothetical country for a specific year (in billions of ZAR): Wages and Salaries: R2,500 Interest: R300 Rent: R200 Profits: R1,000 Taxes (Indirect Taxes Minus Subsidies): R400 Depreciation: R500 Given the data above, which of the following methods of calculating Gross Domestic Product (GDP) may be used? A. Expenditure approach B. Income approach C. Product approach D. Trade approach
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$$\begin{array}{lr} \text { Item } & \text { Billions of dollars } \\ \hline \text { Wages } & 8,000 \\ \text { Consumption expenditure } & 10,000 \\ \text { Other factor incomes } & 3,400 \\ \text { Investment } & 1,500 \\ \text { Government expenditure } & 2,900 \\ \text { Net exports } & -340 \end{array}$$ Explain the approach (expenditure or income) that you used to calculate GDP.
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