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 ...

MEASURING output is the best way we have of taking the temperature of an economy. But the industry standard, gross domestic product (GDP) has a host of weaknesses. It is reliant on an arbitrary ...