THE WEEK

Is GDP the best way to measure economic growth?

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 ...

How the U.S. Uses GDP to Measure Economic Growth

Learn how GDP measures U.S. economic growth and its role in policy and budget planning by the Bureau of Economic Analysis.
Wall Street Journal

When GDP Won’t Do: A New Method For Measuring Digital’s Value

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 ...

Base-Year Analysis: Definition, Methods, and Real GDP Example

Discover how base-year analysis measures economic changes, eliminates inflation effects, and aids in financial growth ...
The Conversation

Beyond GDP: changing how we measure progress is key to tackling a world in crisis – three leading experts

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 ...
The Conversation

The search for an alternative to GDP to measure a nation’s progress – the New Zealand experience

Te Kunenga ki Pūrehuroa – Massey University provides funding as a member of The Conversation NZ. Te Kunenga ki Pūrehuroa – Massey University provides funding as a member of The Conversation AU. There ...
San Francisco Fed

Using Chain-Weighted NIPA Data

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 ...
Time

A Better Measure than GDP

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 ...
International Monetary Fund

Gross Domestic Product: An Economy’s All

When it is growing, especially if inflation is not a problem, workers and businesses are generally better off than when it is not Many professions commonly use abbreviations. To doctors, accountants, ...
American Banker

Changing US economic data would boost costs for banks

Like other facets of the federal bureaucracy, government-collected data could soon bear the imprints of the Trump administration. The change would likely prove costly for banks and other businesses.
JSTOR Daily

ADDRESSING MEASUREMENT ERROR BIAS IN GDP WITH NIGHTTIME LIGHTS AND AN APPLICATION TO INFANT MORTALITY WITH CHINESE COUNTY DATA

As an emerging research area, application of satellite-based nighttime lights data in the social sciences has increased rapidly in recent years. This study, building on the recent surge in the use of ...