From Tragedy to Renaissance : Improving Agricultural Data for Better Policies

Carletto, Gero ; Jolliffe, Dean ; Banerjee, Raka

World Bank Group, Washington, DC

关键词: national statistics offices;    smallholder agriculture;    agricultural data;    household surveys;    economic development;   

DOI  :  10.1596/1813-9450-7150
RP-ID  :  WPS7150

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: World Bank Open Knowledge Repository

【 摘 要 】

Agricultural development is an essentialengine of growth and poverty reduction, yet agriculturaldata suffer from poor quality and narrow sectoral focus.There are several reasons for this: (i) difficult-to-measuresmallholder agriculture is prevalent in poor countries, (ii)agricultural data are collected with little coordinationacross ministries of agriculture and national statisticsoffices, and (iii) poor analysis undermines the demand forhigh-quality data. This paper argues that initiatives likethe Global Strategy to Improve Agricultural and RuralStatistics bode well for the future. Moving fromDevarajan's statistical "tragedy" toKiregyera's statistical "renaissance" willtake a continued long-term effort by individual countriesand development partners.