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Economic growth: Puzzles and paradoxes over pluses
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For quite some time the country’s economic growth statistic has been greeted with scepticism. There have been inconsistencies and contradictions that have made it difficult to accept the official estimates as accurate. In 2011 the growth figure was trotted out even before the year was out. Interestingly, the figure given before the data was collected [...]