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: (1) difficult-to-measure smallholder agriculture is prevalent in poor countries; (2) agricultural data are co...

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Main Authors:	Carletto, Calogero, Jolliffe, Dean, Banerjee, Raka
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	en_US
Published:	Taylor and Francis 2015
Subjects:	Agriculture household surveys economic development
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/10986/21606

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spelling	okr-10986-216062021-04-23T14:04:03Z From Tragedy to Renaissance : Improving Agricultural Data for Better Policies Carletto, Calogero Jolliffe, Dean Banerjee, Raka Agriculture 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: (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. 2015-03-16T21:03:58Z 2015-03-16T21:03:58Z 2015-02-13 Journal Article Journal of Development Studies 0022-0388 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/21606 en_US CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo World Bank Taylor and Francis Publications & Research Publications & Research :: Journal Article 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: (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.
format	Journal Article
author	Carletto, Calogero Jolliffe, Dean Banerjee, Raka
author_facet	Carletto, Calogero 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	Taylor and Francis
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From Tragedy to Renaissance : Improving Agricultural Data for Better Policies

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