Judgement

1.

An evaluation, or part of an evaluation, involving professional skill and experience, as well as data.

Often associated with qualitative techniques.

Government to revisit debt-to-GDP judgement

"Before the impact of the coronavirus became clear, the government was content to run an ongoing deficit that would broadly stabilise the debt-to-GDP ratio over the medium term rather than reduce it – a judgement that it will no doubt re-visit in the wake of the current crisis."

The UK Office for Budget Responsibility’s coronavirus analysis, April 2020

2. Profesional skills

The ability and practice of exercising and applying professional experience to an issue.

3. Law.

Alternative spelling of judgment.

See also

• Debt-to-GDP ratio
• Enforcement
• Independent
• Judgment
• Office for Budget Responsibility
• Qualitative techniques
• True and fair view
• Value judgement