INTD 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Informal Sector, Structural Adjustment, Official Statistics

• School: McGill University
• Department: International Development
• Course: INTD 200
• Professor: Kazue Takamura

Document Summary

Disparity between the measure in the theory and the measure in practice. Why is national income statistics should not be considered as facts but as products? (5) What are the structural factors that negatively shape the statistical capacity of the sub-saharan. Growing dependence and demand for economic statistics. Popularity of quantifiable targets and goals (mdgs, sdgs) The ability to adhere to the global standard (3) = validity of the data. United nations system of national accounts (sna) since the 1939 = producing a global standard that determine statistical capacity . Un statistical office = ranking the wealth of the nations (based on the global standard) Providers of the data = national statistics offices. Why is national income statistics should not be considered as facts but as products? (p. 5) Statistical capacity of the state, resources, availability of the data (measurability) ---> Lack of data availability especially in informal economy. Introduction of saps (structural adjustment programmes) in the 1980s and 90s.