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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Main Authors:	Carletto, Gero, Jolliffe, Dean, Banerjee, Raka
Format:	Policy Research Working Paper
Language:	English en_US
Published:	World Bank Group, Washington, DC 2015
Subjects:	national statistics offices smallholder agriculture agricultural data household surveys economic development
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2015/01/23171166/tragedy-renaissance-improving-agricultural-data-better-policies http://hdl.handle.net/10986/21147

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spelling	okr-10986-211472021-04-23T14:04:01Z From Tragedy to Renaissance : Improving Agricultural Data for Better Policies Carletto, Gero Jolliffe, Dean Banerjee, Raka national statistics offices smallholder agriculture agricultural data household surveys economic development 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. 2015-01-07T22:07:33Z 2015-01-07T22:07:33Z 2015-01 http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2015/01/23171166/tragedy-renaissance-improving-agricultural-data-better-policies http://hdl.handle.net/10986/21147 English en_US Policy Research Working Paper;No. 7150 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/ World Bank Group, Washington, DC Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper Publications & Research Africa Africa
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description	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.
format	Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper
author	Carletto, Gero Jolliffe, Dean Banerjee, Raka
author_facet	Carletto, Gero Jolliffe, Dean Banerjee, Raka
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title	From Tragedy to Renaissance : Improving Agricultural Data for Better Policies
title_short	From Tragedy to Renaissance : Improving Agricultural Data for Better Policies
title_full	From Tragedy to Renaissance : Improving Agricultural Data for Better Policies
title_fullStr	From Tragedy to Renaissance : Improving Agricultural Data for Better Policies
title_full_unstemmed	From Tragedy to Renaissance : Improving Agricultural Data for Better Policies
title_sort	from tragedy to renaissance : improving agricultural data for better policies
publisher	World Bank Group, Washington, DC
publishDate	2015
url	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2015/01/23171166/tragedy-renaissance-improving-agricultural-data-better-policies http://hdl.handle.net/10986/21147
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From Tragedy to Renaissance : Improving Agricultural Data for Better Policies

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