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Chinese econ stats: to doubt or not to doubt?
Is China’s slowdown worse than the government is letting on? That was the provocative claim in a New York Times article last week which reported that officials were manipulating data on everything from...
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Is a new Indian inflation index needed?
WPI or CPI, or something new? Indian inflation is a complicated thing to follow. The governor of the Reserve Bank of India, in a speech Tuesday, called for a new inflation index to be developed to...
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By Emre Deliveli of Hürriyet Daily News Turkish inflation figures, announced on Monday, showed a 1.7 per cent month-on-month increase in January, much higher than market expectations of 1.1 per cent....
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“I want to go now”: Argentina’s inflation response
What’s that phrase? If you’re in a hole, stop digging? Hernán Lorenzino, Argentina’s economy minister (left), abruptly terminated an interview with a Greek television journalist, Eleni Varvitsioti,...
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The wrangling behind the World Bank business stats
The World Bank’s ease of doing business indicators are very important. If you are, say, the Macedonian trade minister, you will know your country’s ranking – and you will cite it at every opportunity...
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