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 ...

BEIJING (Reuters) - China's statistics bureau said on Friday that it has revised the way it calculates the country's gross domestic product by including contributions from health care, tourism and ...

'Revision of the base year for both CPI and GDP are long overdue.' 'The basic data that went into the 2011-2012 series were mainly from surveys done in 2011 or earlier.' 'We have since seen the ...

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 ...

As per the first advance estimates released by the National Statistical Office (NSO) on Friday, the discrepancy was a positive of Rs 2.94 trillion – meaning the GDP calculated through the GVA method ...

New Delhi: Officials from the ministry of statistics and programme implementation (MoSPI) met economists in Mumbai on Tuesday to seek their feedback and suggestions on making growth and inflation data ...

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, ...

India is likely to have clarity on base year revision for key metrics that ascertain growth, inflation and factory output by the end of the fiscal, sources familiar with the developments informed ...

The Finance Ministry on September 15 scotched aspersions cast by “certain sections” on the credibility of Indian GDP data, which showed a 7.8% uptick in the first quarter of this year, stressing that ...