When a country wins the FIFA World Cup, does the prize money increase GDP?
In this episode of The Economy – How Do You Measure That?, Jim Tebrake and Sanjiv Mahajan explain how FIFA World Cup priz...
All governments use GDP as their main measure of prosperity. That’s a problem, because GDP misses a lot.
Our expert Livia Bizikova responds to a new dashboard proposed by the UN high-level expert ...
Gross Domestic Product has long defined whether countries are succeeding — but it leaves out the thing...
... and accurately reflects the ambitions of sustainable development, going beyond Gross Domestic Product (GDP) - “Beyond GDP”.
In this seminar, Sabina Alkire and James Foster will pr...
How is GDP measured when a company designs a product in one country but manufactures it in another? In this episode of The Economy – How Do You Measure That?, Jim Tebrake speaks with Jennifer Ribar...
What is GDP? What Recent Spending and Investment Data Tell Us About the Current Economic Landscape
CBPP's Gbenga Ajilore provides insight and analysis on the latest GDP estimates, as well as what recent data on consumer, business, and government spending tell us about the current state of the U....
How do national accounts treat stolen goods? In this episode of The Economy – How Do You Measure That, we explore how theft is handled in GDP measurement. Host Jim Tebrake speaks with Thomas Alexan...
How does electricity produced at home through rooftop solar show up in GDP? Households are increasingly becoming energy producers, but how do statisticians measure this activity? In this episode, J...
Better than expected GDP growth is a welcome sign that the government’s growth plans may be starting to pay off. But it can’t be a one-off: ministers must double down to make it last.
This video introduces the two approaches in compiling and disseminating the gross external debt position: the institutional-sector-based approach and the public-sector-based appr...
As the push intensifies for countries to go "beyond GDP" when measuring progress, IISD and partners launched an e-course designed for post-secondary students and policymakers to explore the alterna...
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