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“they have not being able to reach a consensus about how “progress” is best calculated or defined. The result is not an objective measure of progress but rather an expression of development priorities as determined by changes in the political economy and academic trends.”
― Poor Numbers: How We Are Misled by African Development Statistics and What to Do about It
― Poor Numbers: How We Are Misled by African Development Statistics and What to Do about It
“governance is used in the context of how numbers provide an opportunity for transparency and accountability, but it is also related to governance in its more direct sense: numbers provide evidence for decision makers.”
― Poor Numbers: How We Are Misled by African Development Statistics and What to Do about It
― Poor Numbers: How We Are Misled by African Development Statistics and What to Do about It
“data. Paul Collier is one of the few who has ventured a recent guess. He recently asked: “Is this dismal performance just an artifact of the data?”
― Poor Numbers: How We Are Misled by African Development Statistics and What to Do about It
― Poor Numbers: How We Are Misled by African Development Statistics and What to Do about It
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