[Seth Ackerman]
The current issue of Foreign Policy has a piece that delves informatively into the issue of the IMF's statistical sleigh-of-hand.
seth ackerman
> The "avg" row is the arithmetic average of the yearly figures; a
> compound
> figure would be slightly lower, but still nowhere near their 3.6%. The
> IMF
> press person explained that sometimes their averages include years not
> shown, which would be a neat trick in this case.
>
> Doug
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