The United Nations wants scientists to help design indicators of progress that go beyond GDP. Researchers should seize the chance and be aware of past failures.

Online dating traffic, cardboard box production and movie success offer insights into consumer behavior and economic health. The combined occurrence of informal indicators can highlight broader ...

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 ...

World Development Indicators (WDI) serves as the World Bank's primary collection of internationally comparable data on development. It is a comprehensive resource that contains pertinent, top-notch ...

Explore the Genuine Progress Indicator (GPI), a holistic measure that contrasts with GDP by incorporating environmental and ...

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2023 was the year of recovery. It was the year that interest rates increased so that inflation could come down. As we step into the new year, the economic landscape is beginning to show signs of ...

Fears of a recession are back on investors’ minds. But predicting the onset of an economic downturn, let alone the length and severity of one, is difficult even for the experts. As a rule of thumb, ...

(a) Purpose: The indicator is a widely used measure of access to and use of energy, individual and industrial energy consumption patterns and the energy intensity of ...