What's the best way to gauge the health of the economy? Gross domestic product, a measurement that calculates the value of all goods and services produced, has long been a good way to take the ...

MEASURING output is the best way we have of taking the temperature of an economy. But the industry standard, gross domestic product (GDP) has a host of weaknesses. It is reliant on an arbitrary ...

India is refining its district-level economic output measurement, aiming to identify regional disparities and support areas ...

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 ...

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 ...