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China has changed its method of calculating the country's GDP, a move that is in line with international standards and is not an attempt to jazz up growth figures, the National Bureau of Statistics ...

I sometimes read assertions that the statistical methods used by the Commerce Department to calculate GDP no longer properly capture economic output because they don’t, for example, properly account ...

China's National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) has adopted a new method of calculating GDP that it says "better reflects the contribution of innovation to economic growth." Research and development (R&D) ...

Howard Lutnick, the U.S. Commerce Secretary, has expressed his intent to exclude government spending from the gross domestic product (GDP) calculations. What Happened: Lutnick argued that government ...

The country real GDP is projected to grow 6.5% in the current fiscal year, according to the Reserve Bank of India. (IE) In the backdrop of the debate around the accuracy of the April-June GDP data, ...