Gross domestic product (GDP, a government-produced measure of economic output) is one of the most widely discussed ...

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 ...

ZAA NKWETA, PRESENTER: Forty years ago, Senator Robert Kennedy gave a speech in which he questioned using the GNP as an indicator of economic prosperity in America. (AUDIO CLIP BEGINS) ROBERT KENNEDY: ...

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 ...

When economists want to analyze economic performance, they typically examine Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth. However, a ...

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 ...

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 ...

China is likely to stick to its current annual economic growth target of around 5% next year, government advisers and ...

Economic growth has raised living standards around the world. However, modern economies have lost sight of the fact that the standard metric of economic growth, gross domestic product (GDP), merely ...

We spend a large and growing share of our waking lives online, but digital goods and services go largely uncounted in the GDP because that measure is based on what people pay for goods and services.

When my ENT said, “We need to get you a fine-needle aspiration as soon as possible,” I immediately knew that I was entering a different chapter in my life. Nine years on, it is clear that my neck ...