Welfare measurement is among the most fundamental questions in economics. Policymakers and others use gross domestic product ...

Since the early 1980s, Canada’s economy has expanded significantly, with GDP per capita rising by 70% in real terms. But ...

"Growing GDP means more jobs and income in the hands of Brazilians. 2025 is the year of the harvest," the president wrote. Brazil’s GDP reached R$ 11.7 trillion in 2024, recording a 3.4% ...

No, argued Simon Kuznets, the Nobel economics laureate who helped create the measure now known as GDP. When the US Department of Commerce started publishing estimates of national output in the ...

Policymakers must address employment and income weaknesses. However, numbers for earlier years were significantly revised upwards, with GDP growth ... a different approach. Policymakers must ...

China has set a GDP growth target of around 5% this year and aims to create over 12 million new urban jobs, amid the risk of a full-blown trade war with the US. Premier Li Qiang unveiled the ...

Measuring Distribution and Mobility of Income and Wealth explores the latest developments in the analysis of income and wealth distribution and mobility. The collection of 23 studies is divided into ...

In a business as usual scenario, investment will peak at 37 per cent of gross domestic product (GDP ... greater income convergence across states. States are not converging in terms of per-capita ...

India would need to grow by 7.8% on average over the next 22 years to achieve the country’s aspirations of reaching high-income status ... from current 33.5% of GDP to 40% (both in real terms ...

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Back in 2017 at the World Government Summit, Musk famously said about universal basic income, "I don't think we're going to have a choice." It wasn't a political stance or even his personal ...