From Tragedy to Renaissance : Improving Agricultural Data for Better Policies

• Tác giả: Calogero Carletto
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 338.16 Production efficiency
• Thông tin xuất bản: Taylor and Francis, 2015
• Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở
• ID: 299175
• Chủ đề: 1. Agriculture; 2. economic development; 3. household surveys

Tóm tắt

 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: (1) difficult-to-measure smallholder agriculture is prevalent in poor countries
  (2) agricultural data are collected with little coordination across sectors
  and (3) poor analysis undermines the demand for high-quality data. This article 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.