The Political Economy of Bad Data: Evidence from African Survey and Administrative Statistics.
Across multiple African countries, discrepancies between administrative data and independent household surveys suggest official statistics systematically exaggerate development progress. We provide evidence for two distinct explanations of these discrepancies. First, governments misreport to foreign...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Development Studies Vol. 51; no. 2; pp. 116 - 133 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Feb2015
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