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 ...

GDP is one of the most important numbers in modern economics, but few people really know what it means. Learn what you need to know in this handy explainer. Governments have used many indicators to ...

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 ...

MEASURING output is the best way we have of taking the temperature of an economy. But the industry standard, gross domestic product (GDP) has a host of weaknesses. It is reliant on an arbitrary ...