Are Chinese official statistics reliable?

CESifo Economic Studies

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 396-414

  Chow, Gregory ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; ESTIMATION METHOD; GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST;

EID: 33750449320     PISSN: 1610241X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cesifo/ifl003     Document Type: Article

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