00000cam a22000003i 4500 UP-1685594773861846341 Buklod 20240427152930.0 ta rb |||| u| ta 151014s2010 xx a r |||| u|eng d 9781846681769 (iLib)UPBAG-00008944063 GRC-2714 Php2,720.00 DLC BAG rda eng HA 29 G85 2010 Guide to economic indicators making sense of economics. Economist guide to economic indicators. London Profile Books Ltd [2010] xi, 244 pages illustrations 23 cm text rdacontent unmediated rdamedia volume rdacarrier Economist books "The Economist." Includes index. "Useful Websites": pages 228-232. 1: Interpreting Economic Indicators: -- 2: Essential Mechanics: -- 3: Measuring Economic Activity: -- Omissions -- Output, expenditure and income -- Prices -- Putting it in context -- Reliability -- 4: Growth: Trends And Cycles: -- Nominal GDP -- GDP per head -- Real GDP -- GDP: Output -- GDP: Expenditure -- Productivity -- Cyclical or leading indicators -- 5 Population Employment And Unemployment -- Population -- Labor or workforce -- Employment -- Unemployment and vacancies -- 6 Fiscal Indicators -- Public expenditure -- Government revenues -- Budget balance, deficit,surplus -- National debt government or public debt-- 7: Consumers: -- Personal income, disposable income -- Consumer and personal expenditure, private consumption -- Personal and household savings; savings ratio -- Consumer confidence -- 8: Investment And Savings: -- Fixed investment and GDFCF -- Investment intentions -- Stocks (inventories) -- National savings, savings ratio -- 9: Industry And Commerce: -- Business conditions; indices and surveys -- Industrial and manufacturing production -- Capacity use and utilization -- Manufacturing orders -- Motor vehicles -- Construction orders and output -- Housing starts, completions and sales -- Wholesale sales or turnover, orders and stocks -- Retail sales or turnover, orders and stocks -- 10: Balance Of Payments: -- Accounting conventions -- Exports of goods and services -- Imports of goods and services -- Trade balance, merchandise trade balance -- Current-account balance -- Capital- and financial-account flows -- International investment position (IIP) -- Official reserves -- External debt, net foreign assets -- 11: Exchange Rates: -- Nominal exchange rates -- Special drawing rights (SDRs) -- EMU, ecu, ERM and euro -- Effective exchange rates -- Real exchange rates competitiveness -- Terms of trade -- 12: Money And Financial Markets: -- Money supply, money stock, liquidity -- Bank lending, advances, credit, consumer credit -- Central bank policy rates -- Interest rates; short-term and money-market rates -- Bond yields -- Yield curves, gaps and ratios -- Real interest rates and yields -- Share prices -- 13: Prices And Wages: -- Price indicators -- Gold price -- Oil prices -- Commodity price indices -- Export and import prices unit values -- Producer and wholesale prices -- Surveys of price expectations -- Wages, earnings and labor costs -- Unit labor costs -- Consumer or retail prices -- House prices -- Consumer or private expenditure deflators -- GDP deflators. Economic forecasting. Business forecasting. Social sciences Statistics Methodology. Economic indicators Methodology. Economics Methodology. Economist Newspaper Limited. FO UPBAG GRC HA 29 G85 2010 Book