A senior Labour shadow minister has suggested that the party could adopt a radically different approach to measuring the health of the economy, amid growing pressure worldwide to ditch GDP as a ...
The obsession with economic output as a measure of human development puts sustainability on the back burner. Researchers can ...
You may have read last week that Canada's real gross domestic product grew at a 2.5-per-cent annual rate in the first quarter, a pretty good showing in light of the current economic slowdown. Compared ...
Most Americans measure our nation’s economic success by how fast the gross domestic product grows. By that statistic, the United States is quite successful. In fact, the entire global economy has ...
The validity of Chinese economic data has long been a topic of concern among economists. Many express scepticism over China’s official GDP data, suspecting the Chinese Government has likely ...
Recently, Indian GDP measurement came under considerable discussion in the media on account of an observation emanating from the Niti Aayog based on a projection made by the World Bank—that India has ...
This Economic Letter discusses a topic that at first glance appears to be boring and technical but that in fact turns out to be quite important: the proper interpretation of chain-weighted data. To ...
The BEA's third estimate of real gross domestic product showed economic growth increased at an annual rate of 3.8% in Q2 2025 ...
Jo-An Occhipinti is both Head of Systems Modelling, Simulation & Data Science, and Co-Director of the Mental Wealth Initiative at the University of Sydney's Brain and Mind Centre. She is also Managing ...
The broadest measure of economic activity and primary indicator of the economy’s health. • 8:30 AM ET: Durable Goods Orders (Aug) - Forecast: -0.3%, Previous: -2.8%. Measures the change in total value ...