Policy makers and researchers want their analyses and advice to be evidence-based. Economic and social statistics seem to provide the hard data needed to make decisions. But those statistics are often inaccurate and are measured imprecisely. In this blog article, ISS Professor of International Economics and Macroeconomics Peter van Bergeijk points out the biases of academia in the global North, showing that their pretention about their statistical superiority perpetuates power imbalances in academic and policy discourses.
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