Diane Coyle, Bennett Professor of Public Policy at the University of Cambridge and author of GDP: A Brief But Affectionate History, explains why gross domestic product is no longer an adequate means ...

Ranking the world's "richest country" purely depends upon perspective as different methods yield varying results.

Diane Coyle’s new book, GDP: A Brief But Affectionate History, is a timely contribution to discussions of modern economic performance. She argues that Gross Domestic Product increasingly ...

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 ...

The media and economic communities regularly use Gross Domestic Product (GDP), a tally of all goods and services produced within a country during a specific time period, as a measure of economic ...

Open this photo in gallery: Gross domestic product (GDP, a government-produced measure of economic output) is one of the most widely discussed econometrics in financial headlines that Fisher ...

Syria’s example illustrates the challenges of gathering good economic data during conflict. Two destroyed tanks in front of a mosque in Azaz, north of Aleppo. Photo taken in August 2012 by Christiaan ...

Since World War II, most countries around the world have come to use gross domestic product, or GDP, as the core metric for prosperity. The GDP measures market output: the monetary value of all the ...