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Ep 274: Two-and-a-Half Bengalis Have an Economics Adda

The Seen and the Unseen - hosted by Amit Varma

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In India, Is It Malice or Incompetence?

India was at the frontier of statistical data collection back in the sixties and seventies, during the mahalanobes period. But we somewhere down the line, forgot to reform the statistical bureaucracy. We are now putting the pressure of computing the g d p of a significantly more complex economy. And you have the pressure of meeting international standards. So i think that the combination of that let to the crumbling of that edifice, so to speak. It's almost like a political compulsion don't release the survey, because then we are going to look really bad.

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