Menu
By Dr. David L. Blond, Principle Researcher and President, QuERI-International. QuERI International helps businesses and governments quantify the world through use of sophisticated and integrated econometric modeling and forecasting. Based on over forty years of economic forecasting experience, QuERI’s proprietary models cover 72 countries and 166 ISIC 3 industries and commodities with all data based on a consistent definition, and units of account. Learn more about QuERI-International here.
The views expressed are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily represent the views of Knoema Holdings and its Executive Board.
Based on the original article by Dr. David L. Blond, Principle Researcher and President, QuERI-International. QuERI International helps businesses and governments quantify the world through use of sophisticated and integrated econometric modeling and forecasting. Based on over 40 years of economic forecasting experience, QuERI’s proprietary models cover 72 countries and 166 ISIC 3 industries and commodities with all data based on a consistent definition and units of account. Learn more about QuERI-International here.
Introduction COVID-19 is unrelenting. Economies are teetering on the brink of further collapse while also considering fresh restrictions to manage the health crisis until help arrives in the form of a vaccine. But, economies are not static. The COVID-19 pandemic is like no other of the post-World War II period and so is and will be …
Introduction Economic rock bottom is on its way for many countries as the COVID-19 pandemic continues its saunter across the globe, defying rushed attempts to ‘flatten the curve’. When and how fast individual economies will recover in the short term is simply unknown, driven in part by the unknowns surrounding the virus itself. Expanding our …
Knoema Organizes Coalition of Alternative Data Providers to Support COVID-19 Knowledge Sharing and Policy Making Knoema now providing free data resources, visualizations and dashboards to the general public, media outlets and policy makers to support COVID-19 response. NEW YORK, April 16, 2020 – Knoema, the provider of an end-to-end data and knowledge management platform and one of …
Introduction In early 2020 economists and statisticians faced a similar problem as 90 years ago in the very beginning of the Great Depression. After the economy collapsed in the fourth quarter of 1929 the US government needed to find a way to measure the magnitude of the recession. Fast forward to the late 1930s and …
Preface Our title may have caught you off guard given the evolving threat that is coronavirus. Let us explain. This article was originally written in the very beginning of 2020 when coronavirus was perceived as a local outbreak that would rapidly resolve, rather than a serious threat to the global community and economy. Despite all …
Introduction As technology ushers in changes to global economic and social systems, how are the metrics we have used historically to measure national economic performance, metrics designed primarily for the industrial economies of the early-mid 20th century, holding up? Is the ubiquitous gross domestic product (GDP) measure even steering us in the right direction in …
Introduction Over the last few years, researchers have published a number of studies about the impact automation will have on the job market. However, the results have ranged wildly, pegging potential job displacement in the United States at anywhere between 9% to 47%.1 Surprisingly, though, these studies all tend to ignore the material basis for automation: …
Introduction No modern nation is or can be economically self-sustaining.1 Any country that tries to produce all the goods and services it needs will inevitably see less quality and variety. This is because all countries have different constraints on production, such as available resources and capital. Sometimes certain types of production are impossible altogether. Crops, for …
Knoema, an Eldridge business, is the premier data platform and the most comprehensive source of global decision-making data in the world. Our revolutionary technology changes the way individuals and organizations discover, visualize, model, and present their data and the world’s data to facilitate better decisions and better outcomes.
