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The statistical techniques policy makers often use to estimate the economy's "potential" — the maximum level of output and employment it can achieve without inflationary overheating — turn out to be badly flawed: they interpret any sustained economic slump as a decline in potential, so that the hawks can point to charts and spreadsheets supposedly showing that there's not much room for growth.
Nevertheless, the simple constructed framework still holds its own merits for government statistical officers, policy makers and academic researchers.
This is not just a statistical nicety - policy is based on growth estimates that may bear very little relation to reality.
HDSS could serve as a resource to country statistical and policy systems by partnering HDSS staff with staff from national programmes.
The decision-making processes for item retention and scale creation was driven by theory [ 28, 38, 39], research team discussion, statistical criteria, policy-relevance, and expert consensus.
Such people may, in the modern world, provide statistical fodder for policy debates, but they are also, archetypally, the heroes and heroines of fairy tales, picaresque novels and pop-culture epics.
Recently, she helped conduct impact evaluations for USAID through the Cloudburst Group, providing statistical analyses and policy briefs for land tenure interventions in Zambia, Ethiopia, and Liberia.
The bill's supporters included seven former bureau directors from both parties and hundreds of statistical, professional, public policy and civil rights organizations.
