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Better gender statistics could provide a more detailed understanding of women’s access to justice, education, and finance; improved measures of poverty and inequality could reveal how the benefits of economic growth are distributed; and natural capital accounting could uncover the value of resource endowments, thereby helping to ensure that they are used in a rational and sustainable manner.
Official statistics for 2009 are likely to show that migrants’ remittances fell sharply, as the global recession severely eroded job opportunities abroad.
Indeed, there are lots of depressing statistics about how poorly companies listen.
Some of the stories behind the statistics have been widely reported; others are known only to the victims’ families.
According to an Associated Press report, citing Foreign Office statistics, Libya purchased from the United Kingdom “about £40 million ($55 million) worth of military and paramilitary equipment in the year ending September 30, 2010.”
Later, he took the liberty of manipulating official statistics in order to hide inflation.
Look at the UN human development report for 1998 which provides a few glaring statistics on the inequality in the human condition economically which may provide the basis for a greater inequality scientifically.
Some statistics speak for themselves: the three richest people in the world have combined personal assets, on their own, in excess of the entire GDPs of the 48 least developed countries.
Because accurate statistics about reserves in countries like Saudi Arabia are not available, it is impossible to settle the dispute definitively.
Online commerce is offsetting some of the other weaker areas of the economy, and its full impact might actually be underreported in official statistics.
Thus, a growing proportion of the workforce – often below the radar screen of official statistics – is losing hope of finding gainful employment, while the unemployment rate (especially for poor, unskilled workers) will remain high for a much longer period of time than in previous recessions.
But, because the official statistics capture mostly sales by larger retailers and exclude the fall in sales by hundreds of thousands of smaller stores and businesses that have failed, consumption looks better than it really is.
Because people cannot get justice through the courts, unrest has skyrocketed nationwide in recent years: official statistics record more than 200 protests a day, four times the number a decade ago.
The story of Spain’s recovery is not quite “lies, damned lies, and statistics”; but nor is it the inspiring narrative of policymaking courage and vindication that many observers make it out to be.
Big data and advanced analytics can also reduce costs and enhance efficiency in health care and government, and can create value for consumers through greater product variety and quality, as well as enhanced convenience – benefits that are not captured in GDP statistics.
Moreover, manipulation of official statistics highlights the problems of an economic model based on peso depreciation and the accumulation of reserves.
At the other end are the techno-pessimists, who see disappointing productivity statistics and argue that the new technologies’ economy-wide benefits will remain limited.
In 46 of 54 African countries, official tracking of vital statistics such as birth, marriage, and death is limited.
For starters, they will need benchmarks of current conditions and projected costs, and then detailed statistics on the adoption of the measures, their impact and costs, and what happens over time.
Indicators to be measured include not just rates of obesity, high blood pressure, and incidence of disease and related costs, but also absenteeism, school grades and graduation rates, employment statistics, accidents, and the like.
But many economists have found evidence that growth in household consumption in the first half of 2012 was stronger than official statistics have shown.
If government statistics are not entirely unreliable, this rate is simply too low.
Some of the debt does not even appear in the official statistics of borrowing countries, because it was often taken on not by domestically-based firms, but by their offshore subsidiaries.
BEIJING – One of the most cited statistics about China may well be the number of Chinese who have been lifted out of poverty over the last 35 years.
Many economists describe the current situation as a “second Solow moment,” referring to legendary MIT economist Robert Solow’s famous 1987 remark: “You can see the computer age everywhere but in the productivity statistics.”
Behind these statistics are individual stories of personal tragedy, self-doubt, despair, and lost faith in society.
Among its many interesting statistics, it tells you how many jobs are created and where; how earnings and hours worked are evolving; and the number, age, and education of those seeking employment.
Consider the statistics on the duration of unemployment.
According to UN statistics, about 15% of the world’s population lacks access to safe drinking water, and “in 2008, 2.6 billion people had no access to a hygienic toilet or latrine,” while “1.1 billion were defecating in the open.”
In particular, China’s “two systems in one country” enabled exports to bonded warehouses in Hong Kong to be used to pad trade statistics.
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