Another reason, analysts said, may be that some OPEC members exaggerated their output information.
As farmers abandoned the land, their commune leaders reported hugely exaggerated grain output to show their ideological fervour.
It said much of the North Sea's oil wealth was owned by foreign countries, so using GDP – which measures overall output – exaggerated Scotland's prosperity.
As most of the study findings relied on self-reports, social desirability may have resulted in exaggerated processes and inflated outputs.
Local officials keen to show good performance, Mr Lu says, have a big incentive to overstate agricultural output.Growth in industrial output is also exaggerated, despite attempts by the State Statistical Bureau (SSB) to get more accurate data from the provinces.
During orthostatic stress, patients with CRPS were not able to preserve cardiac output and they had an exaggerated increase in total peripheral resistance.
Recent evidence extended the classic paradigm of acute heart failure as an exclusive problem of low cardiac output to a syndrome comprising exaggerated inflammatory response.
Led, and often coerced, by overzealous Party officials, the new rural communes reported fake harvests to meet Beijing's demand for record grain output, and the government began to procure grain based on these exaggerated figures.
McDonagh makes witty play with Irish stereotypes, but beneath the exaggerated speech and the cliches lies a depth of feeling and a psychological acuity less evident in his recent output.
So growth in all industrial output remains exaggerated.In this section Generali's nightmare continues Quiet Americans Food for thought A German coup The euro's first test The world's new currency worries Through a glass, darkly Let it slide Reprints Related items Let it slideJan 7th 1999The central government is well aware of the poor quality of the local data it receives.
