The economic growth rate shown by GDP statistics. However, that figure might be inflated by 30% to 50% due to 'measurement ...

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 ...

The IMF backs India's revised GDP calculation method as questions persist over the 7.8 per cent growth figure reported for ...

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 ...

For the household sector, MoSPI said it had adopted direct estimation based on two of its surveys, the Annual Survey of Unincorporated Sector Enterprises (ASUSE) and the Periodic Labour Force Survey ...

India GDP Growth: India released an updated series of annual and quarterly GDP estimates in 2026, shifting the base year from ...

It’s an odd quirk of history that, on the first day of his ill-fated presidential campaign in March 1968, Robert F Kennedy chose to talk to his audience about the limitations of gross domestic product ...

Gross domestic product (GDP) has long been the main indicator of economic growth used almost everywhere in the world. However, the measurement does not take into account other factors essential to a ...

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 ...

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 ...