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 ...
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 ...

India's GDP data debate: Why current methods remain robust and what will change with the 2026 base revision

India’s GDP is measured using globally accepted SNA methods, and despite an outdated base year, key economic activity is ...
PBS

What is GDP and is it the best way to measure the economy?

What’s the best way to gauge the health of the economy? Gross domestic product, a measurement that calculates the value of all goods and services produced, has long been a good way to take the ...
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 ...
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 ...
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.
Forbes

Redefining GDP And Economic Growth In Inclusive Capitalism Terms

This last piece in a 5-article series, adapted from a speech I gave at a BritishAmerican Business virtual conference in September, suggests that while GDP has served a useful purpose in terms of ...
Washington Times

Dirty data scam: Government-produced GDP growth

The good news was that the gross domestic product report came in higher than expected at 4.9% for the third quarter. The bad news was that too much of the GDP growth came from government spending. The ...
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 ...