To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. Economic development means different things to different ...

For years, measuring economic welfare has been pretty straightforward. Classic economics obsess over a single value: gross domestic product. Luckily, economic paradigms are shifting, and experts are ...

If we tallied up the most common words we’ve used on this show over the last handful of years, “uncertainty” would rank high on the list. We’ve used it to describe what’s happening in the housing ...

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 ...

Of all the current divides in American society, among the most far-reaching and historically significant is also the least discussed: the gap between the primary measure by which we officially gauge ...

Different ways of measuring the economy’s unused capacity, or slack, can result in varying inflation forecasts. Estimates suggest that direct measures of labor market tightness, such as the ratio of ...

Rapid strides in machine learning have transformed the efficiency of public and private sector organizations alike; however, those working on poverty reduction have struggled to harness these ...