While imperfect, the metric carries major real-world implications, experts said. The threat of a looming recession has heightened interest in the most commonly used measure of economic health: Gross ...

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 ...

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 ...