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A new emphasis on gainful employment initiatives – and better statistics with which to measure their impact – would help Indians achieve their goals.
To be sure, Chinese trade statistics do not reflect the imports needed to assemble its exports, and the South Koreans’ reactor will use Westinghouse technology.
In the US, the statistics are striking at both ends of the income distribution.
But these statistics mask a glaring fact: the average American family is worse off than it was three and half years ago.
In statistics and the theory of decision-making under uncertainty, errors are inevitable.
While no official statistics exist, some estimate that more than two million people practice Sufism in Iran.
Fueled by jarring statistics like Oxfam’s recent revelation that the world’s richest 62 people own as much wealth as the poorest 3.6 billion, popular support for left-wing figures like America’s Bernie Sanders and Britain’s Jeremy Corbyn is rising.
Restlessness is pervasive: while statistics vary, depending on how government agencies define the term, it is estimated that there were roughly 180,000 “mass incidents” in China in 2011 alone.
When the SARS epidemic broke out in Guangdong in South China, the government's first impulse was, indeed, to be secretive, manipulate statistics, pressure the media into silence, distort the magnitude of the epidemic, and impede the World Health Organization (WHO) from getting involved early.
Venezuela (which has not published official inflation statistics this year) and Argentina (which has not released reliable inflation data for several years) figure prominently in this group.
Although I cannot claim to be an expert on Chinese economic statistics, I think these headlines are a natural but misleading consequence of the authorities’ intentional effort to shift China’s economic structure away from industrial expansion and exports toward greater reliance on services and household consumption.
But even if that share is higher than official statistics indicate, China’s bad-debt problem is very different from that of the West.
It is not as if people would suddenly begin to behave better if we just gave them more facts and statistics, or better arguments.
The Human Development Index (HDI), a composite measure of national progress that my office at the United Nations Development Programme oversees, combines all three statistics to rank countries relative to one another.
Consider the statistics measured by the HDI – life expectancy, education, and per capita income.
Life expectancy statistics suggest that the world is getting healthier, and data show that people are living longer than ever before; since 1990, average life expectancy has increased by around six years.
But those were just dry statistics.
They reclassify foreign borrowing as domestic debt in order to look better in the International Monetary Fund’s statistics.
Reliable statistics were not available in all countries, and for years there was no political will to protect public budgets from the impact of rapidly aging populations on pension and health-care costs.
OECD statistics show that 40% to 50% of displaced manufacturing workers in the EU15 remain without a job 24 months after becoming unemployed.
But what do the statistics show?
At the start of this decade, Chinese government statistics showed that domestic consumption accounted for 38% of GDP; by the end of 2017, that figure had risen to 42-43%.
Statistics are helpful.
To be sure, the renminbi performs well in trade-related statistics.
The Soviet Union spent a century touching up the warts on Lenin's nose, revising harvest statistics, and making the dying Yuri Andropov look less cadaverous.
In an article in July, Sheng Songcheng, the PBOC’s head of statistics, argued that “the macro framework in a socialist market economy is superior to the Western economy,” because “the Chinese government has significant power in terms of both monetary and fiscal policy and is able to seek the optimal combination.”
After decades of nearly double-digit growth, China appears to be experiencing a marked slowdown – one that some argue is actually worse than official statistics indicate.
What I have proposed is to transform the university into an institution where students continue to concentrate in these three disciplines, but must also complete a rigorous “core curriculum” in the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences – including computer science and statistics.
That inertia is clearly visible in Hong Kong’s economic statistics.
And the third is the wholly counter-intuitive idea of making youth unemployment a great deal more manageable simply by re-calculating the statistics (that sounds phony, I know, but bear with me).
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