Tugas.2
TUGAS 2
Untuk TUGAS 2 ini anda akan diberikan pilihan topik untuk membuat sebuah essay dengan panduan sbb:
1. Buatlah essay dengan paling tidak 3 paragaph (1 buah paragraph awal, 1 buah paragraph
isi dan 1 buah paragraph penutup).
2. Tulislah jawaban anda pada rentang antara 150-200 kata.
3. Jawaban essay diketik dan dikirimkan ke Forum Tugas dalam bentuk Word.
Pilihlah salah satu topik berikut:
A. The number of GDP can always tell whether a country is prosperous or not.
Do you agree or disagree to the statement?
B. Human Capital can only be implemented successfully in a developed country (America, Britain, Japan, etc.}
Do you agree or disagree to the statement?
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Salam,
___Tutor___
The GDP number can
always indicate whether a country is prosperous or not. Do you agree or
disagree with this statement?
Disagree If GDP is
always used as a parameter of a country's prosperity.
Gross Domestic Product
(GDP) is an index of a country's overall economic output accounting for, among
other things, factory output, farmer harvests, retail sales, and construction
spending. All these calculations are usually carried out within a certain time
span, for example a year. This is a number which then functions to condense the
breadth of the national economy into a single data with an unusually large
density. The general assumption about GDP is that the bigger the number, the
more prosperous the country and its people will be. That's not the case though.
For decades, experts have criticized this single measure of the national
economy—speaking that it is a misleading measure. Recently, the challenges to
GDP have been getting stronger, especially in Europe and countries that are
members of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).
According to them, GDP not only fails to reflect the real welfare of society,
but also distorts global political goals towards the pursuit of economic growth
alone.
Based on research /
identification of several limitations of GDP to describe the level of community
welfare, such as: (1) When there is a large inequality in society (in terms of
income distribution), GDP or other indicators presented per capita (per person)
cannot describe the actual condition in public. For example, when 20 (twenty)
percent of group members experience an increase in income up to three times
what they currently earn, GDP will increase, even though in fact, say, 30
(thirty) percent of group members in the lower quartile are in a 'deplorable'
state. Statistics based on the mean (mean) fail to capture social phenomena in
society. In cases like this, the median value better describes the real
condition of the community. (2) The statistical tools used in the calculation
of GDP also fail to capture several phenomena that can improve the welfare of
citizens. The Commission illustrates that traffic congestion increases the
value of GDP due to more fuel consumption. Furthermore, if citizens are
concerned with noise pollution, air pollution, and even climate change, then
statistical measurements that deny these factors clearly fail to capture true
'well-being'. Then, (3) the presentation of statistical facts often leads to
misinterpretation of trends in economic phenomena. For example, GDP is
overvalued, whereas the Net National Product (GNP) which takes into account the
depreciation factor may be more relevant.
The fact that GDP is an
inadequate unit to measure the level of welfare from time to time, especially
with regard to the economic, environmental and social dimensions makes the
Commission have the main task to unravel the current limitations. These factors
are more commonly referred to as aspects of sustainability (sustainability).
Distinguish between an assessment of current well-being and an assessment of
sustainability. The first is more related to economic resources, such as income
and non-economic aspects of people (what they do, feel, and the environment
they live in). Meanwhile, sustainable welfare is based on the question:
"Can the current level of welfare be passed on to the next
generation?". The ability to inherit the current welfare is highly
dependent on the continuity and sustainability of human capital reserves
themselves (environmental, physical, human, and social).