Sentences with phrase «headline economic figures»
As hard as it might be to suss out the impact of extreme weather in 2017, yet harder is sussing out the impact of the changing climate, now and in the future — due to the difficulty of tying individual weather events to epochal changes like global warming, the inability of headline economic figures to capture the messy fullness of human life, and the inadequacy of the available data to measure changes in the natural and the economic world.
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The proliferation of data and advances in economic modelling and computing power prompted some economists to wonder if they really needed to wait on statistics agencies to calculate headline figures such as GDP and employment.
«I do not suggest in any way that these headline grabbing - figures mean we are anywhere near resolving our economic problems.
However, notwithstanding the immediate favourable headlines that the government has garnered from today's figures, the present economic debate still contains numerous positives for Labour.