{"id":79108,"date":"2019-06-13T11:28:37","date_gmt":"2019-06-13T09:28:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=79108"},"modified":"2019-06-13T11:28:37","modified_gmt":"2019-06-13T09:28:37","slug":"ecama-faults-data-reporting-disparities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2019\/06\/13\/ecama-faults-data-reporting-disparities\/","title":{"rendered":"Ecama faults data reporting disparities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>By Chimwemwe Mangazi: <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_74290\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-74290\" style=\"width: 339px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/maleka-thula.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-74290\" src=\"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/maleka-thula.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"339\" height=\"365\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/maleka-thula.jpg 339w, https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/maleka-thula-279x300.jpg 279w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 339px) 100vw, 339px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-74290\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">THULA\u2014Incentivise savers<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Economics Association of Malawi (Ecama), a grouping of economists in the country, has lamented misrepresentation of economic data\u2014saying it affects interpretation.<\/p>\n<p>Ecama Executive Director, Maleka Thula, said this in Lilongwe on Tuesday at a workshop his organisation co-organised with JTI Malawi for economists, financial variable, data reporting and research experts.<\/p>\n<p>He said some economic indicators are misreported and some required data are not readily available to the public.<\/p>\n<p>Thula said economic growth figures should always tally with situation on the ground.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cThe economy has been reported to have been growing for the past five years or so; we have had a 4 percent growth on average.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cBut levels of poverty have been increasing. Inequalities over the years have been increasing, so the question is; are we really growing at the rates that we are reporting?\u201d<\/em> wondered Thula.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>He said this stems from concerns over quality and accuracy of data given.<\/p>\n<p>He also wondered if institutions responsible data compilation were independent and not influenced by other institutions and arms.<\/p>\n<p>JTI Malawi Corporate Affairs and Communications Director, Limbani Kakhome, said the the training was timely.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cWe have been working with Ecama since last year to develop a dashboard of key indicators that a business like ours can use. The ultimate goal is to have credible data provided,\u201d<\/em> Kakhome said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Chimwemwe Mangazi: Economics Association of Malawi (Ecama), a grouping of economists in the country, has lamented misrepresentation of economic data\u2014saying it affects interpretation. Ecama Executive Director, Maleka Thula, said this in Lilongwe on Tuesday at a workshop his organisation co-organised with JTI Malawi for economists, financial variable, data reporting and research experts. He said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":79112,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79108"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79108\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79113,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79108\/revisions\/79113"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}