GDP Archives - IREF Europe https://en.irefeurope.org/tag/gdp/ Independent research and policy analysis on fiscal, monetary, and regulatory issues in Europe Wed, 21 May 2025 05:47:14 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.3 https://en.irefeurope.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2026/04/IREF-LinkedIn-Profile-DarkBlue-scaled.png GDP Archives - IREF Europe https://en.irefeurope.org/tag/gdp/ 32 32 Government over-indebtedness and evasive, unconvincing responses to it https://en.irefeurope.org/publications/online-articles/article/government-over-indebtedness-and-evasive-unconvincing-responses-to-it/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=government-over-indebtedness-and-evasive-unconvincing-responses-to-it https://en.irefeurope.org/publications/online-articles/article/government-over-indebtedness-and-evasive-unconvincing-responses-to-it/#respond Wed, 21 May 2025 05:47:14 +0000 https://en.irefeurope.org/?p=35892 Introduction The scale and servicing cost of government debt are both rising. This will increase the amount of money that governments will have to suck out of economies over the…

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]]> https://en.irefeurope.org/publications/online-articles/article/government-over-indebtedness-and-evasive-unconvincing-responses-to-it/feed/ 0 The Knowledge Economy Enters GDP https://en.irefeurope.org/publications/online-articles/article/the-knowledge-economy-enters-gdp/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-knowledge-economy-enters-gdp https://en.irefeurope.org/publications/online-articles/article/the-knowledge-economy-enters-gdp/#respond Tue, 23 Apr 2013 18:04:05 +0000 https://en.irefeurope.org/publications/online-articles/the-knowledge-economy-enters-gdp/ Knowledge has now become a capital investment and no longer a cost of producing goods. This change has been announced by Brent Moulton, head of national accounts at the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA), on April 22nd, 2013. This will change the way gross domestic products are calculated. It will lead to an immediate 3% growth in the United States’ GDP.

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]]> https://en.irefeurope.org/publications/online-articles/article/the-knowledge-economy-enters-gdp/feed/ 0 France could almost catch up USA income per capita if leisure is included in the statistics https://en.irefeurope.org/news/article/france-could-almost-catch-up-usa-income-per-capita-if-leisure-is-included-in-the-statistics/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=france-could-almost-catch-up-usa-income-per-capita-if-leisure-is-included-in-the-statistics https://en.irefeurope.org/news/article/france-could-almost-catch-up-usa-income-per-capita-if-leisure-is-included-in-the-statistics/#respond Mon, 13 Dec 2010 18:18:37 +0000 https://en.irefeurope.org/publications/other-publications/news/france-could-almost-catch-up-usa-income-per-capita-if-leisure-is-included-in-the-statistics/ No, this is not a joke, but one of the suggestions of the very serious and very official report that the French President Sarkozy commissioned to the Nobel laureate Joseph Stiglitz. Indeed, according to the figures presented by the headed by Stiglitz Commission on the Measurement of Economic Performance and Social Progress, the traditional disposable income measure, which estimates income per capita in France to be only 66% of income in the US, is inadequate.

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]]> https://en.irefeurope.org/news/article/france-could-almost-catch-up-usa-income-per-capita-if-leisure-is-included-in-the-statistics/feed/ 0 Are there some good alternatives to the GDP measure? https://en.irefeurope.org/news/article/are-there-some-good-alternatives-to-the-gdp-measure/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=are-there-some-good-alternatives-to-the-gdp-measure https://en.irefeurope.org/news/article/are-there-some-good-alternatives-to-the-gdp-measure/#respond Mon, 13 Dec 2010 15:06:53 +0000 https://en.irefeurope.org/publications/other-publications/news/are-there-some-good-alternatives-to-the-gdp-measure/ It is a common statement today that in our modern societies we care too much about growth and need another intellectual framework that can guide policies and populations to more worthwhile values and sustainability. Johan Norberg is critically examining some of the alternatives to the traditional development indicator, the Gross Domestic Product growth.

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