The United Nations High-Level Expert Group (HLEG) on Beyond GDP comprises 14 globally recognized experts appointed in May 2025, drawing on expertise in economics, statistics, development policy, ...

The UN is set to present its first global framework for measuring progress beyond GDP, offering country‑owned, universally applicable indicators to guide policy toward human well‑being and ...

For decades, Gross Domestic Product (GDP) has been used as a benchmark of society’s progress. Yet, as the GDP figures keep ticking up, so too does a profound disenchantment with the political and ...

For many years now, the GDP has been severely criticized as not adequately measuring economic progress and the quality of life. The truth, however, is that the GDP was not designed to measure human ...

A major new report by a UN-appointed panel of economists and statisticians has unveiled a framework for taking better account ...

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 ...

Diane Coyle’s new book, GDP: A Brief But Affectionate History, is a timely contribution to discussions of modern economic performance. She argues that Gross Domestic Product increasingly ...

Seriously. How are you feeling about your economic situation? Because the unemployment rate is still near generational lows, inflation is down to 3.2%, and gross domestic product, or GDP, grew at a ...

Syria’s example illustrates the challenges of gathering good economic data during conflict. Two destroyed tanks in front of a mosque in Azaz, north of Aleppo. Photo taken in August 2012 by Christiaan ...