What Are the Criticisms of the Human Development Index (HDI)?

The Human Development Index (HDI) is a tool to measure human prosperity. Learn how it works, as well as the criticisms and ...

Understanding Economic Growth: Definition and Measurement

Economic growth refers to the increase in goods and services production over set periods, often measured by GDP or GNP, ...
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 ...
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 ...
Wall Street Journal

Taking a Measure of Economic Output Without GDP

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 ...
Forbes

A $90 Billion Question: Measuring What Matters In Talent Development

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, ...
The Conversation

We urgently need new tools to measure economic recovery after coronavirus

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 ...