Sentences with phrase «official economic statistics»

GF: How significant is the difference between China's official economic statistics and your numbers?

Leland Miller, an expert on the Chinese financial system and president of data analytics firm, China Beige Book International, visited Global Finance to discuss China's official economic statistics and the financial implications of the upcoming political transition.

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I believe that the lack of official federal government economic statistics might actually enhance the Fed's management of monetary policy.

Much of their economic activity never registers in official statistics.

A few economists have done studies that show that the improvement is less than indicated, but they have not kept these up or urged their adoption by government officials charged with reporting economic statistics.

The data is unambiguous on current economic conditions - GDP growth in the last quarter of 2015 was a meager 2.11 % with full year growth of 2.79 % according to the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS); inflation rose sharply to 11.4 % in February with prospects of reaching 12 % by March; capital markets have remained bearish; according to UNCTAD Nigeria's FDI fell by 27.7 % to $ 3.4 billion in 2015, and on current trends may fall even more precipitously in 2016; the de facto exchange rate of the Naira for most producers and consumers is now N322 / $ even though CBN maintains a nominal N197 / $ for privileged persons; several economic sectors - construction, government, manufacturing, oil and gas and hotels and restaurants are in recession or barely out of it; government's official foreign reserves is down to $ 27.8 bn; and unemployment and under - employment rates have worsened 10.4 % and 18.7 % by the end of 2015.

Official statistics to be released today are expected to show that economic growth fell to about 0.2 per cent in the second quarter of this year.

Carl Obst, Ph.D., Honorary Research Associate, Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute, University of Melbourne Area of Expertise: national accounts, system of environmental - economic accounting (SEEA), official statistics