The economy has been a defining issue for Britons in recent years. Yet the jargon used to describe hugely significant changes can sometimes make it difficult to understand what's going on - and ...

Gross domestic product, or GDP, is one of the most common measures of the size and health of an economy. GDP represents the total amount of money a country earns from the goods and services it ...

A country’s debt-to-GDP ratio is a metric that expresses how leveraged a country is by comparing its public debt to its annual economic output. Just like people and businesses, countries often need to ...