The United Nations has a new plan for weighing economic gains alongside health and environmental progress. But consensus is ...

Eric's career includes extensive work in both public and corporate accounting with responsibilities such as preparing and reviewing federal, state, and local tax filings; supporting multinational ...

Seriously. How are you feeling about your economic situation? Because the unemployment rate is still near generational lows, inflation is down to 3.2%, and gross domestic product, or GDP, grew at a ...

In a review of Diane Coyle’s GDP: A Brief but Affectionate History, aptly titled “Measuring the Unmeasurable,” James Grant highlights many of the difficulties involved in aggregate statistical ...

“We must place true value on the environment and go beyond gross domestic product as a measure of human progress and well-being,” said United Nations secretary-general Antonio Guterres in June at ...

A series of comments from Trump officials in recent days raised concerns that the administration may try to look differently at a key economic measure of America's economic health: the quarterly ...

“GDP has become something of a talisman. When GDP is growing, it gives people and companies hope, and when it declines, governments pull out all the policy stops to reverse the trend.” —World Economic ...

The Chairman of the National Development Planning Commission (NDPC), Dr Nii Moi Thompson, has proposed a shift in Ghana’s ...

GDP growth is up. Time to celebrate! Then GDP growth is down again. Time to panic? These gyrations aren’t uncommon, and we have just been through one. A few weeks ago, President Biden boasted about ...

Learn gross value added (GVA), including how it measures the economic contribution of different entities by evaluating their ...

French president Nicolas Sarkozy drew heat last month when he suggested that countries should factor happiness into their statistics for growth. After all, Sarkozy campaigned on promises of wealth ...