Lies, damned lies and poverty statistics
Misleading government statistics can have devastating effects. Two former chancellors of the exchequer, whose lives we've been remembering in recent days, could certainly have testified to that. Geoffrey Howe could have cut interest rates earlier and ...
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'Poor' results in government poverty report?
... the 2014 Hong Kong Poverty Situation Report, government officials including Chief Secretary Carrie Lam began giving themselves pats-on-the-back for the “record-setting” low number of people now living under the poverty line. Government statistics ...
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Tanzanias Election Crackdown on Dissent
Under the Statistics Act, passed in March, anyone, including the media, who publishes statistics related to the Tanzanian government without approval from the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) could face heavy fines or even jail. That's the immediate ...
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Urban development ministry allows installation of cell phone towers on ...
According to Telecom Regulatory Authority of India ( TRAI) statistics, call drops have doubled in the last one year and are now four times higher than the permissible limit. The government has been accusing the service providers of ducking the required ...
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Government expects economy to grow by 6% this year
The Central Statistics Office also revised up growth for the first quarter to 2.1 per cent, putting the increase in gross domestic product (GDP) for the year to June at 6.7 per cent, more than twice the level achieved by Spain, the next strongest euro ...
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A pair of court decisions bring good news for FOIA users
First, agencies must waive or reduce fees “if disclosure of the [requested] information is in the public interest because it is likely to contribute significantly to public understanding of the operations or activities of the government and is not ...
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