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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Forex Market: USD/CAD daily trading forecast
Job openings are part of the Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey (JOLTS), which gathers data from about 16 400 non-farm establishments including retailers and manufacturers, as well as federal, state, and local government entities in the 50 states ...
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Moody's: Chinese regional and local government debt update shows credit ...
Sydney, September 02, 2015 -- Moody's Investors Service says that statistics released on Chinese regional and local government (RLG) debt show a worsening of the RLGs' credit metrics, such as their debt-to-GDP and debt-to-revenue. On 29 August 2015, ...
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Ewart: Oilpatch layoffs confirm recession more than Statistics Canada
Their pink slips — the latest among more than 35,000 issued in the oil and gas industry this year — tell the story of a faltering Canadian economy far more effectively than the government statistics that confirmed two consecutive quarters of negative ...
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'Broken' Childcare Economics Slamming Younger U.S. Households
... up as scant public funding and more expensive food and rent propel costs. That crimps their ability to hire staff, with payrolls in the industry rising 3.7 percent since the start of the expansion in June 2009, compared with an 8.5 percent gain for ...
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China's government is absolutely lying about its economy
We've also warned that its economic statistics are not real – they are purposefully overstated and then revised later, if at all. I don't see how this top-down dinosaur of a centrally planned government can continue in power. I don't even know how it ...
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US productivity growth rebounds to 1.3 pct. in 2nd quarter
Some experts believe that improvements in software and other high-tech products aren't being accurately measured by the government's statistics, which were formulated when manufacturing, agriculture and other tangible goods accounted for a bigger share ...
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