Along with today’s release of the preliminary estimate of second quarter GDP, we have a new definition of GDP involving the recognition of R&D as investment. Until a few years back, only expenditures ...

The International Comparison Program (ICP) comparisons of gross domestic product (GDP) are based on the value of an individual item equaling the product of its price and quantity (that is, the ...

As part of the ongoing exercise to update the GDP base year, the government will use several more datasets on the expenditure side to improve the sources of data and enable more accurate estimation of ...

In response to a request from Saint Lucia’s Central Statistics Office (CSO), a technical assistance (TA) mission was conducted from September 2–13, 2024, to support the development of experimental ...

International Journal of Health Economics and Management, Vol. 19, No. 2 (June 2019), pp. 115-153 (39 pages) This paper provides empirical evidence of the existence of a long-run causal relationship ...