Richard Heys is deputy chief economist in the Office for National Statistics, Newport, UK. For decades, economists have known that using gross domestic product (GDP) alone to guide policy is ...
Assessments of the world’s economies may be off by trillions of dollars. The existing metrics for GDP, consumer prices, productivity, and the like are struggling to match the rapid pace of change in ...
Secretary-General’s High-Level Expert Group sets out a set of indicators to put people and planet at the centre of decision-making 7 May 2026 - The UN Secretary-General’s independent High-Level Expert ...
New Delhi [India], May 8 (ANI): A United Nations-appointed High-Level Expert Group has called for a global shift beyond Gross Domestic Product (GDP) as the dominant measure of national progress, ...
Figures for the level and rate of growth of gross domestic product (GDP) are quoted ubiquitously, including in this magazine. They are widely agreed to tell us something of importance. But there is a ...
A new UN report challenges nearly a century of economic orthodoxy. For decades, one three-letter abbreviation has shaped the fate of nations. Governments rise and fall on it. International loans are ...
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