That 90% living on less than $1 a day stat? Pulled completely out of thin air about 5 years ago because there was no data. Literally just made up on the spot.
Now there is some data, thanks to the hard work of the staff at the Southern Sudan Centre for Census, Statistics and Evaluation, and some generous funding and technical assistance from various donors. And it is even ONLINE.
I used to think that statistics in poor countries were underfunded, but if we’re all going to ignore them anyway and just make stuff up….
UPDATE: Oh yeah, and I forgot to mention, this one fully conforms to Easterly's "First Law of Development Stats: Whatever our Bizarre Methodology, We make Africa look Worse".
The actual real stats (not yet adjusted for PPP) would put the proportion of the population living on less than $1 a day at more like 50%.
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the linked webpage doesn't seem to work. any other source? i'd be glad to be able to look at the paper!
Thanks I've put in a new link - it seems the GoSS page is down completely.
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