Economic indicators that would truly measure economic growth or development would include (or somehow express) the following:
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How much has actually been produced or grown in the country, measured in units, tons, hectoliters, lines of programming code, the number of lunches served, or other relevant units.
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The volume of the economy in domestic ownership (i.e., what belongs to real Czech people who have a long-term interest in the country’s development).
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The number of good jobs that are stable, pay well, strengthen people’s self-confidence, and—above all—teach them increasingly complex skills.
The problem is that no statistical office attempts to construct indicators that come close to this. We are therefore left to speculate on how the national economy is developing behind the façade of figures such as GDP.