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 ...
The Conversation

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

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 ...
The Big Issue

Zack Polanski wants to use wellbeing targets instead of GDP to measure growth. Is he right?

We asked experts about the potential benefits and drawbacks of moving away from GDP as a measure of growth in the UK.
Forbes

Great, Why Don't We Measure Things Other Than GDP?

We've another of those attempts to tell us that we should be measuring something other than Gross Domestic Product as an indicator of how well we're doing as a society. Like most such attempts there's ...
The Hill

Enough with the GDP — it’s time to measure genuine progress

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 ...
The Conversation

The US needs to get over its obsession with GDP

The Bureau of Economic Analysis on July 27 released the GDP growth rate for the second quarter of 2018: 4.1 percent. GDP – or gross domestic product – is the rate at which the total value of goods and ...
Fast Company

What’s Wrong with GDP

One of the most remarkable speeches that Robert F. Kennedy made was about what’s wrong with using traditional economic measures as gauges of our success as a society: “We will find neither national ...
Politicsweb

A new and improved and larger GDP is here – Stats SA

A new and improved GDP is here. 26 Augustl 2021. Stats SA has finalised a comprehensive overhaul of its national accounts.
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In defence of GDP, the much-maligned measure of growth

Figures for the level and rate of growth of gross domestic product (GDP) are quoted ubiquitously, including in this magazine. They are widely agreed to tell us something of importance. But there is a ...
Zee Business

India's Q3 FY26 GDP Data Today: What’s different about this release and how it changes the way we measure economic growth

India’s economic growth comes into focus at 4 PM on Friday as the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation (MoSPI) releases GDP data under a revised base year of 2022-23, replacing the 2011 ...
Mint

‘Built in the 1940s to count tanks’: Nithin Kamath questions if GDP is right measure of progress

Zerodha co-founder and CEO Nithin Kamath has sparked a discussion on social media by questioning if gross domestic product i.e. GDP is the right measure of progress. In a lengthy post on microblogging ...