Recurve bow. A recurve bow is a bow with limbs that curve away from the archer when unstrung. A recurve bow stores more energy and delivers energy more efficiently than the equivalent straight-limbed bow, giving a greater amount of energy and speed to the arrow.
Measurement Focus and Basis of Accounting. Traditionally, the majority of governmental financial information has been maintained and reported in the fund financial statements on the modified accrual basis of accounting or the accrual basis for business-type activities.
The data-point at issue in both cases is gross domestic product, or GDP, the total value of all goods and services produced within an economy each year. GDP is of critical economic importance; thousands of economists use estimates of the total amount spent or (equivalently) earned each year in their research. Governments also rely heavily on the figure, to shape policy or determine how much public spending is affordable. Yet GDP seems an impossibly complex thing to measure in a modern economy.