Beyond GDP

Is our love-affair with GDP coming to an end? As the business landscape reinvents itself, demographics shift, inequality expands, climate change gets worse and technology continues to advance at breakneck speed, Gross Domestic Product is struggling to stay relevant. In order to keep up with the changes wrought by the Fourth Industrial Revolution, many are arguing that we need to find a new measure to assess the health of our economies and – more importantly – the people living in them.

Follow our series examining the past, present and future role of GDP – and the new economic models that could replace it.

Highlights

Economic Progress

Global Competitiveness Report Special Edition 2020: How Countries are Performing on the Road to Recovery

Future of Work

This is what working from home might mean for GDP and inequality

Economic Progress

Beyond GDP

Highlights

Global Competitiveness Report Special Edition 2020: How Countries are Performing on the Road to Recovery

This is what working from home might mean for GDP and inequality

Let’s ditch the economy of the 1% and replace it with a human economy

Beyond GDP – is it time to rethink the way we measure growth?

When it comes to inequality, where you live matters more than you think

What is GDP, and how are we misusing it?

4 lessons from Bhutan on the pursuit of happiness above GDP

GDP ignores the things that matter - like climate change

Five measures of growth that are better than GDP

The problem with measuring a 2016 economy using 1940s methods

The trouble with GDP and emerging markets

Mark Zuckerberg – ‘We should explore universal basic incomes’

Our economic model is broken. So how can we fix it?

Topics

Let’s ditch the economy of the 1% and replace it with a human economy