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Economics- Edexcel 2.4.1

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households in the circular flow of income   receive factor incomes through earning wages and salaries from jobs and income from investments, buy goods and services supplied by firms  
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businesses in the circular flow of income   hire land, labour & capital inputs when making products for which they pay wages and rent, firms receive payments from consumers  
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governments in the circular flow of income   collect taxes to fund spending on public services(government purchases to firms and social transfers to households  
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circular flow of income in closed economy with no government sector   only leakage is saving and only injection is investment, so is a simple two-sector circular flow of income model  
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three-sector circular flow includes   government sector, households, firms  
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circular flow of income with an external trade sector   imports are also a leakage and exports are also an injection  
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circular flow with financial sector   financial sector helps channel savings into funding productive investment  
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income   flow of money going to factors of production  
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wealth   value of a stock of assets owned by someone or society as a whole  
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examples of income   wages/salaries, rental income from property, interest from savings, profits flowing to shareholders  
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original income   income from jobs, private pensions & interest from savings  
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gross income   original income + cash benefits  
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disposable income   gross income minus direct taxes  
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post-tax income   disposable income minus indirect taxes  
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nominal income   measures income at current prices  
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real income   measures the true purchasing power of someone’s income adjusted for inflation(measured at constant prices)  
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mean income   average income per person across a population  
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median income   income of middle household if all are ranked from lowest income to highest  
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examples of wealth   savings in bank accounts/ownership of property/shares or stocks in businesses/wealth held in occupational pension schemes  
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Gini coefficient   measure of income inequality that condenses the entire income distribution for a country into a single number between 0 and 100(higher=more income inequality)  
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Palma ratio   ratio of the income of richest 10% of households to the income of the poorest 40% of households  
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S80/S20 ratio   ratio of total income received by the richest and poorest 20% of people  
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P90/P10   ratio of incomes of the person at the 90th percentile and person at 10th percentile  
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