The Capital Consumption Allowance measures the amount of expenditure that a country needs to undertake in order to maintain, as opposed to grow, its productivity.
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The depreciation accounted for is often referred to as " capital consumption allowance " and represents the amount of capital that would be needed to replace those depreciated assets.
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But an array of row vectors, typically aligned below this matrix, record non-industrial inputs by industry like payments for labor; indirect business taxes; dividends, interest, and rents; capital consumption allowances ( depreciation ); other property-type income ( like profits ); and purchases from foreign suppliers ( imports ).