By Michael Ward
ISBN-10: 0253216745
ISBN-13: 9780253216748
ISBN-10: 0253343976
ISBN-13: 9780253343970
Good facts, Michael Ward argues, serve to augment a conception approximately existence in addition to to deepen an knowing of fact. This historical past of the UN’s function in fostering foreign statistics within the postwar interval demonstrates how facts have formed our realizing of the realm. Drawing on good over forty years of expertise operating as a statistician and economist in additional than dozen international locations worldwide, Ward lines the evolution of statistical principles and the way they've got replied to the desires of coverage whereas unraveling the query of why convinced facts have been thought of very important and why different information and issues weren't. The ebook explores the commercial, social, and environmental dimensions of the UN’s statistical paintings and the way every one measurement has supplied possibilities for describing the health and wellbeing of the realm group. Quantifying the realm additionally unearths a few of the ignored possibilities for pursuing replacement models.
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