Example sentences of "the gross national " in BNC.
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| 1 | Galbraith challenged the conventional wisdom that everything would be all right if only the Gross National Product were big enough . |
| 2 | Secondly , nobody could any longer advance the belief that sheer production — the worship of the Gross National Product — was the final test of a society 's economic vigour and success . |
| 3 | Britain , with a defence budget of £1,500 million a year , was actually spending an even higher proportion of its wealth on arms — between 8 per cent and 10 per cent of the Gross National Product , a third of its tax revenue . |
| 4 | For it is indeed time some party concerned itself with all those intangible forms of wealth that can not be included in anything called so appropriately the gross national product . |
| 5 | Spending on health has risen from 4.7 per cent of the gross national product in 1979 to 5.7 . |
| 6 | If , on the other hand , one focuses on the production that is undertaken by the residents of that country , the income earned by nationals from abroad has to be added to the gross domestic product , to arrive at the gross national product . |
| 7 | According to Tang ( 1987 ) the forest sector contributed 14.1 per cent of the total export earnings in 1983 which is equivalent to 6.8 per cent of the gross national product ( GNP ) . |
| 8 | He pointed out the illusory nature of much of the growth in the gross national product to which war economy gave rise , and to the fact that it masked a decline in real wealth . |
| 9 | It had begun the seventies with the declared intention of contributing 0.7 per cent of the gross national product in official aid . |
| 10 | Which might explain why the people of the Yemen spend a third of the gross national product on the vegetable-like drug . |
| 11 | In an age which has become dominated by the Gross National Product and the Dow — Jones Index , the level of interest rates and the state of the pound , the money supply and the Public Sector Deficit , and at a more mundane level , the Sunday colour supplements offering a world of gourmet food and package holidays in the sun , it is a warning which is easily muffled by our culture . |
| 12 | How much money went with this is not known but the scale of the ruins — the shell of the reactor is still visible — suggest that it must have been several million dollars even in 1950s prices , perhaps 1 per cent of the gross national product of Argentina , or roughly the equivalent of a whole year 's research budget for a developed country . |
| 13 | Given the power of large , particularly transnational corporations whose capital resources often outstrip the Gross National Product of some industrialized countries , there is every likelihood of success , both in business and in crime . |
| 14 | The sum of the gross national products of Japan and China and the ‘ little tigers ’ will , by the year 2000 , equal that of the United States . |
| 15 | As we have already indicated , it is generally assumed that in future there is likely to be a further reduction in the proportion of people of pensionable age who will be earning currently and hence adding to the gross national product as the latter is now calculated . |
| 16 | Apart from the risk of invasion , English trade was also in danger ; the interception of the Smyrna convoy in 1693 was said to have cost English merchants £2m. ( which would have been something like 3 per cent of the gross national product ) . |
| 17 | The labour supply would have been reduced by about 5 per cent and the reduction in potential output was estimated to be some 3–4 per cent of the gross national product . |
| 18 | The usual solution to this problem is to express local authority expenditure as a proportion of the gross national product ( GNP ) , that is , the total value of the output of goods and services produced within the country , together with the net property income from abroad . |
| 19 | Much discussion of the influence of TNCs has focused on their size , both in terms of the scale and scope of their operations and the fact that the turnover of the largest , notably the giant oil corporations , exceeds the gross national product of all but the richest states . |
| 20 | Railway revenues constituted 8 per cent of the gross national product , and 4 per cent of all those employed in the United States — about 1.7 million people — worked for the railways . |
| 21 | Natural resources should be included as well as the factors which constitute the Gross National Product . |
| 22 | This derives from the proceeds of the Common External Tariff and agricultural import levies , a VAT component and a resource based upon the gross national products of the Member States . |
| 23 | Plus he pays the Gross National Product of Malawi in child support every month . |
| 24 | With the Italian economy apparently hitting the stars , and a submerged economy estimated at around 20 — 30 per cent of the gross national product , it is easy to use Italy as the shining example of leaving things to individual initiative . |
| 25 | The fall in Third World export prices has thus given a boost to the Gross National Product ( GNP ) of the rich countries , to the tune of something like $100 billion a year . |
| 26 | The fiscal deficit was estimated at $53,800,000 or 3.5 per cent of the gross national product ( GNP ) . |
| 27 | Candidates closely identified with the President were defeated in the important states of Rio Grande do Sul and Parana , and in particular in the key state of Sao Paulo , responsible for 50 per cent of the gross national product . |
| 28 | The budget for 1991 , presented to Congress at the end of January , envisaged a 5 per cent decrease in expenditure and a reduction in the public-sector deficit to the equivalent of 2.8 per cent of the gross national product . |
| 29 | Cuts in military spending which absorbed as much as 5 per cent of the gross national product ( GNP ) of developing countries , would constitute the chief source of additional resources . |
| 30 | It was estimated that , in the second half of 1990 , the gross national product ( GNP ) of the former East Germany was only 8.3 per cent of western Germany 's GNP ( although the population was over one-quarter , and its land area nearly half that of western Germany ) . |