Clay Halton is a Business Editor at Investopedia and has been working in the finance publishing field for more than five years. He also writes and edits personal finance content, with a focus on ...

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 ...

Gross Domestic Product (GDP) measures the quantum of economic activities in a country, in monetary terms, over a period of time usually one year. Real GDP eliminates the impact of inflation by ...

Discover how GDP and GPI together offer a clearer insight into a country's economic prosperity and well-being beyond traditional metrics.

BEIJING--China has revised the way it measures the size of its economy, the first such change since 2002, in what it says is an effort to better align its data with international standards. The ...

Jannie Rossouw is received financial assistance for research from the NRF and from ERSA. South Africa has toppled Nigeria and reclaimed its status as the largest economy in Africa. This comes two ...