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Now I wanted to get a sense of life, not statistics.
The statistics say 10% of children are “stunted” – so undernourished before the age of two that they never grow to their full potential.
Fortunately, the conservative political scientist Charles Murray points out some of these statistics in his latest book, Coming Apart.
(Murray’s statistics are based on whites alone, to control for race.)
And, even in these sectors, competitiveness must be defined in a much broader sense than that given simply by comparing cost statistics.
Over the period for which modern statistics are readily available, Democrats have outperformed Republicans by almost every traditional measure of economic performance (per capita GDP growth, unemployment, inflation, budget deficits).
Official statistics show that more than 85,000 public protests occurred in 2005 (and probably more each year since) over issues such as corruption, public health, the environment, and land use.
Behind the cold statistics, lives are being ruined, dreams are being dashed, and families are falling apart (or not being formed) as stagnation – depression in some places – runs on year after year.
We are constantly confronted with an onslaught of negativity: frightening headlines, alarming research findings, and miserable statistics.
There is a similar trend in many other environmental development statistics.
Consider the fairly common scenario in which politicians and the media whip up fear of crime, even when statistics show national crime rates are low or falling.
Logic and statistics do not authorize the inference, but a stubborn intimation whispers to us that the coming of another Michelangelo or Shakespeare or Mozart is doubtful.
The statistics are stark.
Statistics like these underscore the urgency of urban planning and growth management.
Africa’s Necessary Data RevolutionWASHINGTON, DC – Since the term “data revolution” was introduced, there has been a flurry of activity to define, develop, and implement an agenda to transform the collection, use, and distribution of development statistics.
Indeed, of the 60 countries with complete vital statistics, not one is in Africa.
The distorted picture of Nigeria’s economy provided by the previous statistics likely led to misguided decisions regarding private investment, credit ratings, and taxation.
Only 2% of official development aid is earmarked for improving the quality of statistics – an amount wholly insufficient to assess accurately the impact of the other 98% of aid.
And governments’ dependency on donors to fund and gather their core statistics is unsustainable.
These include statistics on births and deaths; growth and poverty; tax and trade; health, education, and safety; and land and the environment.
Such a compact would enable governments and donors to express their shared intention to build a national statistics system over a period of several years, with clear and verifiable milestones.
But statistics from the US National Science Foundation reveal a genuine drive to innovate across much of Asia, with East, South, and Southeast Asian countries together spending more on R&D than the US.
To answer this question, let us examine some key statistics.
Such statistics indicate that Hong Kong and mainland China have been linked to each other closely in economic areas, and that the handover of sovereignty may not have much immediate impact on both sides.
Throughout the world, standards for reporting national-accounts statistics focus attention on a linguistic construct, official debt, rather than on the economically meaningful infinite-horizon fiscal gap, where pension and health-care liabilities exact a heavy toll.
Our collective interest in addressing the problem of chronic diseases does not rest only on epidemiological statistics.
Economists are likely to spend months puzzling over why the effect of low oil prices has proved slow to emerge in the consumption statistics.
He wanted an economics that would give full scope for judgment, enriched not only by mathematics and statistics, but also by ethics, philosophy, politics, and history – subjects dropped from contemporary economists’ training, leaving a mathematical and computational skeleton.
Yet, somehow, China’s official investment statistics have largely escaped discussion.
The information needed to understand social, environmental, and economic trends is generally produced by government statistics offices.
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