Japan hasn't seen,in Japan, we haven't seen the actual nominal GDP growth for as long as two decades,"

VOA: standard.2010.01.21

The 5.7 percent growth in GDP from October to December beat analyst expectations by more than one percent.

VOA: standard.2010.01.29

The Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan emphasizes a concept it calls 'gross national happiness,' rather than GDP.

VOA: standard.2009.09.14

"Most governments in the advanced economies will exit from the recession with the highest deficits and the highest debt-to-GDP ratios recorded in times of peace."

VOA: standard.2010.04.21

"It would double the public debt in five years, triple it in ten years - the highest percentage of GDP since after World War II.

VOA: standard.2009.03.22

Foreign remittances from the diaspora now account for almost 20 percent of GDP by some estimates, and new cars frequent the streets of the capital.

VOA: standard.2009.06.04

"Most of the economies, including Thailand, showed a pick-up in the second quarter GDP, the Asian region was leading the turn around in the global picture,".

VOA: standard.2009.10.15

Government officials still have not declared the recession officially over, but the GDP report marks the second quarter of expansion after a record four quarters of decline.

VOA: standard.2010.01.29

The government of German Chancellor Angela Merkel has agreed on budget cuts and new taxes to bring Germany's deficit within the European Union limit of 3 percent of GDP.

VOA: standard.2010.06.16

That is equivalent to about 5.2 percent of our GDP.

VOA: standard.2010.01.21

Romer appeared on Fox News Sunday. "When you get out five,10 years,they are assuming that real GDP [U.S.gross domestic product is only going to grow 2.2 or 2.3 percent a year,"

VOA: standard.2009.03.22

He notes that is an optimistic figure. Economic figures recently released by the Russian Federal Statistics Service show the GDP declined in the first quarter of this year by 9.5 percent.

VOA: standard.2009.05.25

The report was commissioned by the French government. The report recommends shifting the ways policymakers look at progress from what economists call gross domestic product,or GDP, which is a general measure of goods and services produced in a country.

VOA: standard.2009.09.14

It can ensure that poor,rural people, whose lives and livelihoods, depend on the earth's productive capacity, have the means to produce more and to produce it better, GDP growth generated by agriculture has been shown to be at least twice as effective in reducing poverty as growth in other sectors. In recent years, more attention is being paid to the importance of smallholder farms.

VOA: standard.2010.03.29