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 ...
IMF researchers show that satellite data, especially nighttime lights combined with machine learning can reliably estimate ...
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 ...
(MENAFN- Caribbean News Global) GENEVA, Switzerland – Independent experts shine a new light on ways to complement traditional economic measures with metrics that reflect human wellbeing, inclusiveness ...
The new series of Consumer Price Index (CPI), used for measuring retail inflation, is going live from February 2026. The Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation (MoSPI) has announced ...
BEIJING (Reuters) - China's statistics bureau said on Friday that it has revised the way it calculates the country's gross domestic product by including contributions from health care, tourism and ...
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 ...