“How Much Should We Trust Developing Country GDP?” by Oliver_Kim

This post was crossposted from Oliver Kim's Global Developments blog, with the author's permission, by the Forum team. The author may not see comments. A Review of Morten Jerven's Poor Numbers, A Decade On Poor Numbers: How We Are Misled by African Development Statistics and What to Do About It, by Morten Jerven. 2013. I think most users of GDP presume that, when they download an Excel spreadsheet from a slick-looking official website like the World Bank or the International Monetary Fund, what they get is something FDA-approved for human consumption—that, somewhere down the line, maybe in some other room down the hall, the real experts have done the shoe-leather work to make sure that the numbers are accurate and reliable. Morten Jerven's 2013 book, Poor Numbers, is about why that isn’t true. The Late 1980s Tanzanian Growth Catastrophe Perhaps the best illustration comes from Tanzania, where the socialist [...] ---Outline:(01:07) The Late 1980s Tanzanian Growth Catastrophe(05:13) “What Happens If I Disappear?”(09:31) A Marginal ProposalThe original text contained 20 footnotes which were omitted from this narration. The original text contained 2 images which were described by AI. --- First published: December 5th, 2024 Source: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/WMgkGriC9dbcrnKFD/how-much-should-we-trust-developing-country-gdp --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO. ---Images from the article:Apple Podcasts and Spotify do not show images in the episode description. Try Pocket Casts, or another podcast app.