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

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 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 ...

Integrating population and development strategies into planning and decision-making is a key objective of the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD).

Ala'a Shehabi is the Deputy Director for the Institute for Global Prosperity at University College London and receives funding from UKRI and the ESRC for research on Lebanon This is scary. But these ...

Three major foundations are abandoning feel-good metrics for hard data on economic transformation, pioneering new ways to measure whether their workforce investments create lasting change. In 2008, ...

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 ...

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 ...