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>Last week, a study by the Indian business confederation Assocham put that figure at nearly $2 trillion. Just to put this astonishing figure in context, that’s about the same as India’s gross domestic product.

Why do even educated writers compare unrelated terms? GDP is per year. That sentence is like comparing a distance of 60 miles to driving at 60mph.

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I don't follow. The lost money is an amount equal to what the whole country makes in a year. Why is that a bad comparison?

It gives a negative impression when you compare it with GDP, because, when saying GDP, every one assumes it as the amount a country makes in a year, and the writer is take as a smug by the sensitive ones.

Seldom people take GDP as the amount county spends in a year (expenditure method for calculating GDP)( and that does not leave such a bad image of the situation after all :D )

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