India's GDP data debate: Why current methods remain robust and what will change with the 2026 base revision

India’s GDP is measured using globally accepted SNA methods, and despite an outdated base year, key economic activity is ...
Time

A Better Measure than GDP

French president Nicolas Sarkozy drew heat last month when he suggested that countries should factor happiness into their statistics for growth. After all, Sarkozy campaigned on promises of wealth ...
Foreign Affairs

Beyond GDP

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 ...
The Conversation

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

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 ...
JSTOR Daily

Why Is Growth in Developing Countries So Hard to Measure?

Occasional widely publicized controversies have led to the perception that growth statistics from developing countries are not to be trusted. Based on the comparison of several data sources and ...
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 ...