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  "title": "Data and Inequality",
  "publication": "IMF Blog, February 2, 2017",
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      "heading": "Key messages",
      "content": "- Policymakers need good data to help them make good decisions.\n- Producing statistics on inequality is never just a technical act; it has political consequences.\n- Data doesn’t always reflect reality when it comes to poverty and inequality: “The statistical office in a country may come out and say poverty has gone down, but the people on the ground say they feel it hasn’t.”"
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    {
      "heading": "Measurement challenges and findings",
      "content": "- Conventional methods used to collect household data can lead to an underreporting of inequality and poverty of up to 30%.\n- Recent IMF research has been a leading voice on the detrimental effect of inequality on growth in the last five years."
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    {
      "heading": "Historical perspective",
      "content": "- The blog includes a historical look at British data collection and use during colonial times in India.\n- The India office prepared an annual report to the British parliament on economic and moral progress in India.\n- John Maynard Keynes’ first job out of university was in the statistical office that produced the report; he managed the report’s production in 1906-1907 and never went to India."
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      "content": "- Podcast (embedded): https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/297115439\n\nSource: iMFdirect blog post “Data and Inequality,” February 2, 2017.\n\n---\n\n\n References\n\n- Fourth IMF Statistical Forum on Statistics for Inclusive Growth\n\nSource: https://www.imf.org/en/blogs/articles/2017/02/02/data-and-inequality"
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    "Authors: iMFdirect",
    "Published: February 2, 2017",
    "Policymakers need good data to help them make good decisions.",
    "Producing statistics on inequality is never just a technical act; it has political consequences.",
    "Data doesn’t always reflect reality when it comes to poverty and inequality: “The statistical office in a country may come out and say poverty has gone down, but the people on the ground say they feel it hasn’t.”",
    "Conventional methods used to collect household data can lead to an underreporting of inequality and poverty of up to 30%.",
    "Recent IMF research has been a leading voice on the detrimental effect of inequality on growth in the last five years.",
    "The blog includes a historical look at British data collection and use during colonial times in India.",
    "The India office prepared an annual report to the British parliament on economic and moral progress in India.",
    "John Maynard Keynes’ first job out of university was in the statistical office that produced the report; he managed the report’s production in 1906-1907 and never went to India.",
    "Podcast (embedded): https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/297115439",
    "[Fourth IMF Statistical Forum on Statistics for Inclusive Growth](http://www.imf.org/external/np/seminars/eng/2016/statsforum/)"
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