The Business Journals

Quantifiable benchmarks like these are necessary to gauge economic development success

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. Economic development means different things to different ...
The Conversation

GDP is not enough to measure a country’s development. What if we used the Sustainable Development Goals instead?

Cristina D'Alessandro is currently an officer at the National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies, mentioned in the article, but in a different field to the one covered in the text: she deals ...
CNBC

A new index is using AI tools to measure U.S. economic growth in a broader way

The Zeta Economic Index, launched Monday, uses generative AI to analyze what its developers call "trillions of behavioral signals" to score growth on both a broad level and for stability. In June, ...
International Monetary Fund

Measuring Quarterly Economic Growth from Outer Space

This paper presents a novel framework to estimate the elasticity between nighttime lights and quarterly economic activity. The relationship is identified by accounting for varying degrees of ...
equities

How GDP Became the Standard Measure of Economic Growth

“Measurement theory shows that strong assumptions are required for certain statistics to provide meaningful information about reality. Measurement theory encourages people to think about the meaning ...
webtv.un.org

Workshop on measuring population ageing and assessing its economic and fiscal consequences in Asia-Pacific

Tim Miller, Global Adviser on Population and Development, Population Division, DESA and Mun Sim Lai, Population Affairs Officer, Population Division, DESA ...
The Conversation

We urgently need new tools to measure economic recovery after coronavirus

Ala'a Shehabi is the Deputy Director for the Institute for Global Prosperity at University College London and receives funding from UKRI and the ESRC for research on Lebanon This is scary. But these ...