Escobal and Herrera: Decree that Goverment wants to aprove puts statistical system under threat, why?
“By transferring INEI’s own functions to Midis, the Supreme Decree proposed by the Government is a threat to the credibility of non-monetary poverty indicators”.
Javier Escobal, Senior Researcher at GRADE, and Javier Herrera, Visiting Professor at PUCP, both members of the Consultative Commission on Poverty Measurment. write about the implications of a proposed Supreme Decree that questions the technical autonomy of INEI and its responsability in the measurement of multidimensional poverty.
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