The Business Journals

Quantifiable benchmarks like these are necessary to gauge economic development success

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

New method of measuring economic inequality could improve policy outcomes

Social scientists have urged policy-makers and governments to rethink how income inequality is measured. In a new study published in Nature Human Behaviour, researchers from the University of Exeter ...
International Monetary Fund

13th Statistical Forum Call for Papers: Measuring Cross-Border Economic and Financial Linkages in a Dynamic World

The 13 th Statistical Forum of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) will take place in hybrid format (in person and virtually) in Washington, D.C. from November 19 to 20, 2025. The Forum is a ...
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 ...
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 ...
KXAN

City audit finds lag in efforts to measure affordability, economic opportunity in Austin

Editor’s Note: The video above shows KXAN News Today’s top headlines for March 30, 2023. AUSTIN (KXAN) — In March 2018, the City of Austin adopted its Strategic Direction 2023 (SD23) plan, a five-year ...