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"We are living through the era of Big Data with all its promises and consequences. But is the world also splitting into the data “haves” and “have nots”?"
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"In a companion working paper CGD researchers Justin Sandefur and Amanda Glassman warned that official statistics in Africa “systematically exaggerate development progress”. Governments, they found, often misreported basic data on things like vaccination rates to foreign donors. In the case of primary education in Tanzania, they found, while official government statistics showed the country was on the verge of reaching the goal of universal primary education, household surveys actually showed 1 in 6 children aged 7-13 were not in school."
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