Note: Translated from Swahili using Google Translate
By Peter Mwai
From the article:
It has been reported that the World Bank has banned US $ 50 million support from Tanzania's government.
The reason is that the bank has been affected by the changes expected to be made in the 2015 Statistics Act.
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Tanzania is likened to Argentina
Sandefur in his article has compared Tanzania and Greece and Argentina, where he says that these nations have stopped any critics of criticizing government statistics on economics and social issues.
He says there is a problem that governments of various states are convinced to add salt to official statistics and prove that they are successful and working.
The writer says the problem becomes worse than international institutions such as the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) use such figures as a real picture of the situation in the country.
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