miércoles, 20 de marzo de 2019

Economic data: Fact vs fiction | The Indian Express

Economic data: Fact vs fiction | The Indian Express



Economic data: Fact vs fiction

Annual Survey of Industries data for 2016-17 shows that output growth, and industrial jobs growth, have sharply accelerated post 2013. This data has not been questioned by any expert

Economic data: Fact vs fiction
Lately, Indian statistics and the institutions associated with it have come under a cloud for being influenced and indeed even controlled by political considerations. (Illustration by Suvajit Dey)


In several articles over the last few months, I have been documenting the following simple point — it is the age of fake news, and political parties across the world have used it, or are using it. My forthcoming book, Citizen Raj: Elections 1952-2019, has a chapter, “The Birth of the Fake and Faulty Twins” where I stress a simple point: Conceptually, it does not benefit an incumbent (especially one with an outright majority) to disseminate fake news. That can only backfire. However, fake news can benefit a challenger who can throw any accusation — as Donald Trump did in the US elections in 2016 — leaving the incumbent to try and prove the impossible.

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