Satellite photos show light growing slowly in countries even as some autocracies report rapid economic growth. JoshZumbrun looks at how much dictators manipulate their economic stats.
It comes as no surprise that one shouldn’t necessarily trust dictatorships to put out accurate information—especially about their reportedly glorious economies—but it has traditionally been hard to say exactly how bad the problem
might be., by the University of Chicago’s Luis Martinez shines a light on the extent to which autocratic governments might be juicing their estimates of gross domestic product, the commonly used measure of an economy’s size and might.
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