From Tragedy to Renaissance : Improving Agricultural Data for Better Policies
Agricultural development is an essential engine of growth and poverty reduction, yet agricultural data suffer from poor quality and narrow sectoral focus. There are several reasons for this: (i) difficult-to-measure smallholder agriculture is preva...
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| Format: | Policy Research Working Paper |
| Language: | English en_US |
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World Bank Group, Washington, DC
2015
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2015/01/23171166/tragedy-renaissance-improving-agricultural-data-better-policies http://hdl.handle.net/10986/21147 |
| Summary: | Agricultural development is an essential
engine of growth and poverty reduction, yet agricultural
data suffer from poor quality and narrow sectoral focus.
There are several reasons for this: (i) difficult-to-measure
smallholder agriculture is prevalent in poor countries, (ii)
agricultural data are collected with little coordination
across ministries of agriculture and national statistics
offices, and (iii) poor analysis undermines the demand for
high-quality data. This paper argues that initiatives like
the Global Strategy to Improve Agricultural and Rural
Statistics bode well for the future. Moving from
Devarajan's statistical "tragedy" to
Kiregyera's statistical "renaissance" will
take a continued long-term effort by individual countries
and development partners. |
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