This paper presents a novel framework to estimate the elasticity between nighttime lights and quarterly economic activity. The relationship is identified by accounting for varying degrees of ...

The Zeta Economic Index, launched Monday, uses generative AI to analyze what its developers call "trillions of behavioral signals" to score growth on both a broad level and for stability. In June, ...

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 ...

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The country's statistics must track not just district-wise economic, as has been proposed, but also how much prosperity ...

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, ...

It’s an odd quirk of history that, on the first day of his ill-fated presidential campaign in March 1968, Robert F Kennedy chose to talk to his audience about the limitations of gross domestic product ...

Ecosystem builders need ways to measure success. Part economic development and part culture curating, the field’s non-traditional goals rely on hard-to-measure metrics, panelists said during a session ...

In “Recession Fears May Not Pass GO” (op-ed, Aug. 10), Mark Skousen argues for using gross output, or GO, as a more reliable indicator of economic growth than gross domestic product. I fail to see how ...

*Urges 'Borrow Better' framework to curb soaring public debtNdubuisi Francis in AbujaThe Economic and Fiscal Justice Coalition (EFJC) has admonished the federal to make poverty reduction the primary ...