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The uncounted /

What we count matters, and in a world where policies and decisions are underpinned by numbers, statistics and data, if you're not counted, you don't count. In this book, Alex Cobham argues that systematic gaps in economic and demographic data not only lead us to understate a wide range of...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Cobham, Alex (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, UK ; Medford, Massachusetts : Polity Press, [2020]
Subjects:
Equality.
Population > Statistical methods.
Social sciences > Statistical methods.
Social indicators.
Table of Contents:
  • Development's data problem
  • The 'data revolution'
  • We the people : but only some of them
  • The rise of tax justice
  • Understates
  • I provide secrecy, you're corrupt : the making of SDF 16
  • False profits and uncounted capital (with Petr Jansky).