Economic growth refers to the increase in goods and services production over set periods, often measured by GDP or GNP, ...

Most measures of economic performance used by government officials to inform their policies and decisions are based on gross-domestic-product figures. But concerns have long been raised that GDP-based ...

Paul Allin is a member of the UK National Statistician's Expert User Advisory Committee and he is the Royal Statistical Society's Honorary Officer for National Statistics. Views expressed in this ...

One of the most remarkable speeches that Robert F. Kennedy made was about what’s wrong with using traditional economic measures as gauges of our success as a society: “We will find neither national ...

We've another of those attempts to tell us that we should be measuring something other than Gross Domestic Product as an indicator of how well we're doing as a society. Like most such attempts there's ...

I discuss the importance of understanding where the economy is in the business cycle for investors, highlighting the difficulty in predicting recessions. I suggest that GDPplus, a model introduced by ...

India’s upcoming gross domestic product (GDP) series will rely far more heavily on digital and administrative data and updated survey-based methodologies, marking a significant shift away from older ...