Official Misuse and Abuse of Guyana’s Economic Statistics part 1

Reputation

Among economists, econometricians and statisticians who conduct serious research on the Caribbean and expend considerable effort mining the region’s economic datasets, Guyana has held the unsavory reputation for decades now, of being the country where political manipulation and Government misuse of official statistics are carried to their worst extreme.

This requires them to be very cautious when relying on official datasets and is particularly evident in respect to those for income,