Why statisticians must produce a measure of “clean GDP”

By Donato Speroni. Eleven years after the 1^st OECD World Forum in Palermo, economists and statisticians, politicians and representatives of civil society will again meet – this time in Guadalajara, Mexico  - on the 13-15 October 2015 for the 5^th OECD World Forum on Statistics, Knowledge and Policy jointly organised by the National Statistics Office of Mexico (INEGI) and the OECD.

A lot of work has been done in the past decade thanks to OECD, and I have already written about it in my previous post on ProgBlog. But I have come to the conclusion, already presented in my Italian blog on the Corriere della Sera website, that we are now facing two different directions of research. More...