The international development community has used the World Bank’s Statistical Capacity Index since its inception in 2004. The Sustainable Development Goals create new challenges for national statistical systems to produce high-quality and internationally comparable data. This paper reviews...

The international development community has used the World Bank's Statistical Capacity Index since its inception in 2004. The Sustainable Development Goals create new challenges for national statistical systems to produce high-quality and internationally comparable data. This paper reviews...

The use of models to try to better understand reality is ubiquitous. Models have proven useful in testing our current understanding of reality; for instance, climate models of the 1980s were built for science discovery, to achieve a better understanding of the general dynamics of climate...

Intro -- Contents -- Figures -- Tables -- Acknowledgements -- Glossary and abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1 Official statistics and the crisis of the Wilhelmine state -- 2 The Republic's new numbers, 1918-1923 -- 3 Weimar's macroeconomic statistics, 1924-1929 -- 4 The crisis of Weimar's...