Gross National Product

We have a smaller deficit as a percentage of the Gross National Product, which is the only way to measure it, than any other country.

American Exceptionalism: A Double-Edged Sword 1996

As concerns fertility and population matters, the Gross National Product is a gross and inaccurate measure of real wealth.

Bill Totten's Weblog 2008

Yet the Gross National Product does not allow for the quality of our marriages, the intelligence of our public debate, or the integrity of our public officials.

Chip Conley: What Do We Value? 2009

At that conference, the president promised to increase foreign aid by $5 billion each year, bringing our total commitment to the developing world closer to the declared objective of 0.7 percent of America's Gross National Product.

Alan Patricof: America Can Profit from Foreign Aid Done Right 2008

But the main reason for the fashion industry's malaise, of course, is the Gross National Product known as our growing obesity.

Obesity, Recession Take Bite out of Fashion Dollar 2008

Compared to other key indicators, though, like employment, consumer confidence, the stock market, Gross Domestic Product, and Gross National Product, it has been the case more times than any other economic factor that if a president starts a term with lower gas prices and ends with higher prices, he is in trouble.

Jennifer Donahue: Gas Prices Predict Elections 2008

Recently, Secretary of Commerce Carlos Gutierrez and renowned UCLA Professor Richard Walter publicly discussed the catastrophic effect stream ripping has on America's Gross National Product and the balance of trade, especially in China.

Hank Risan: Art and Invention Stream Ripped Away 2008

But the main reason for the fashion industry's malaise, of course, is the Gross National Product known as our growing obesity.

Obesity, Recession Take Bite out of Fashion Dollar 2008

He who sat with Cesar Chavez at the breaking of the fast, he who enlisted civil rights and women activists in his crusade, who questioned the Gross National Product as immoral, who dialogued with people like myself about ending the war and poverty?

Tom Hayden: An Appeal to Barack Obama 2008

You know, there's a small country nestled in the Himalayan Mountains, far from these beautiful mountains, where the people of the Kingdom of Bhutan have decided to do something different, which is to measure their Gross National Happiness rather than their Gross National Product.

Eleni Gabre-Madhin on Ethiopian economics 2007