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James Micallef's avatar

"But the World Bank and institutions like it can’t simply stop publishing GDP data."

Of course they can simply stop publishing GDP data. They prefer publishing BS rather than admit they don't know for purely political and face-saving reasons, which are of course MUCH more important than helping these countries improve

Banyan's avatar

Lies, damned lies, and worst of all, statistics.

Stonebatoni's avatar

I wonder if somewhere there’s someone left from the statistics office in Rhodesia who would know what the numbers were for Rhodesia and could compare them with the (largely nonexistent) statistics produced by Zimbabwe-Rhodesia and later Zimbabwe. If I remember correctly Zimbabwe intentionally had a minimal statistics office, because tracking statistics would have shown the internal blockades/ethnic cleansing “post-liberation”.

conor king's avatar

So the point is that when a country starts to produce something like coherent data we can then assess it as not so poor. And when datat starts to erode - eg Russia and India - we can wonder about what is happening?

CorporateSerf's avatar

Why do we have to report these statistics then? Central Planning?

Seluvian's avatar

Both population and crime stats are also fake

Random dude's avatar

So what can poor countries cause I'm sick of this shit what can they do to become first world

ArkaRananga's avatar

Strengthening government institutions is the only way a poor country can become rich in the modern world. There is no rich country today with weak government institutions.

Krenik's avatar

One solution might be to subdivide and become smaller. The smaller the state the easier it should be to know what's happening (and then do something about it).

Random dude's avatar

This is why there is a immigrantion Crisis in the west and they act like poor countries want to invade like what no I don't know if it's just my algorithm but they act like non white hate white people like what I don't care there generally nice people irl they can be cunts I don't hate white people maybe just my algorithm